WHOSE WAS THE WHALE?
AN INTERESTING CASE. fBT TELEGBAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BLENHEIM, This Day. An interesting case, the first of its kind in New Zealand, was heard at Picton yesterday and to-day. In September the Te-Awaiti whalers killed a whale in Tory Channel and left it floating in the kelp while they went in pursuit of another whale. On returning they found that the first whale had disappeared, apparently having sunk. - A few days afterwards, a party of Port Underwood settlers found, a whale, of which they took possession. This whale the Te-Awaiti party claimed, and an action was brought to recover £200, being part value of the mammal. After plaintiffs' evidence had been heard, counsel for the defence applied for a nonsuit, 'on the ground that tho whale, even if killed by the Te-Awaiti men, was captured by the Port Underwood party outside the threemile limit, and it was therefore a derelict and the property of the Crown. Legal argument is to be heard in Blenheim.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 113, 9 November 1910, Page 8
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