Mr. Herbert D. Murphy, an Australian who is now managing director of the Norwegian Whaling Company, when he called in Sydney recently on his way to Noumea, said that the waters round the New Hebrides and Noumea and off the Australian coast, had been found by Norwegian whaling ships to be one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. Whale fishing off Hie Australian const, he said, had greatly increased the national wealth of Norway. In order to make a profit they had to catch 10 whales a week, but they had not found II dltllcult. to maintain this average. They took only large bull whales.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 297, 12 September 1938, Page 8
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