LAST OF THE WHALERS
SOUTHERN PRINCESS DEPARTS Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, October 30. The whaler Southern Princess, and her chasers, left Port Chalmers at 1.55 p.m. to-day for the Ross Sea. Captain W. W. Stuart accompanied the whalers as representative of New Zealand in the Ross Sea. Thirty labourers were shipped by the vessel for the trip, on a wage and share basis. The chasers will return to Port Chalmers for the off season, but the mother ship will bunker at Wellington -nd take the whale oil to America or Europe, afterwards laying up in Norway for the off season.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 31, 31 October 1929, Page 12
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