SETTLER’S ENTERPRISE
£3OO From Stranded Whale By Telegraph.—Press Association. Blenheim, July 24. A French Pass settler found a badlydecomposed carcase of an 80-foot sperm whale washed up ou the beach a mile or so from his homestead. With the advice and assistance of two practical whalers, be braved the noisome emanations, and his hardihood and labour were rewarded, in spite of crude equipment, with 1452 gallons of oil valued at about. £2OO, while the teeth are probably worth £BO or £9O. The party regret that there was no ambergris in evidence.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 255, 25 July 1935, Page 11
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