KILLING UNDERSIZED WHALES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 66, 10 December 1938, Page 11

KILLING UNDERSIZED WHALES

New York Story Confirmed

PERTH, December 8.

Referring to yesterday’s cablegram from New York concerning the capture of undersized whales by the whaling vessel Frango, Inspector Matthew Goodlad, of Western Australia, who was observer on the Frango from June to October, confirms the published story.Inspector Goodlad's log declares that whales 30 and 31 feet were brought aboard at the dead of night, and that a warning wars given by the Frango’s captain that “if we (meaning Inspector Goodlad and Lieutenant. Midtyng, tlie American coastguard officer) persisted in antagonizing the crew by staying on the flensing deck at night we would get a knife shoved into us.” The Western Australian Government takes a serious view of the Frango s alleged infringement of the whaling convention, and is sending a summary of Inspector Goodlad’s log to Washington.

The earlier cable message referred to stated that the Assistant United States of America Attorney, Mr. Matthews Carey, was preparing a criminal action against the American Whaling Company, owners of the whaling ship Frango, which was alleged to have violated the international treaty limiting the killing of whales.