ROSS SEA WHALERS
CHASEES EEADY FOE NEXT - SEASON.
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I ■■•'■ DUNEDIN" This Day - . Boss ,Sea is regarded as the world's ; final reserve for big whales: ■ Preparations for another season's rich haul of blubber are. now completed, so far as ts e.Norwegian whale chasers are concerned. These five small .steamers have "all been overhauled and repaired at Port Chalmers, :whence the last^ one left on Saturday for winter; quarters, at Stewart Island. There they will await the ar-rival-of the. storeship from Europe ere they go whale-hunting again next summer. Apparently there is a prospect of two storeships coming south this year because one storeship last season' was at times unable to "dispose of the carcasses as quickly as the chasers brought them alongside. On one. occasion when the activities^ the armed chasers were thus eni e +t , wl.lales I ,?'e re^pouting within sight a the storeship. Experienced Norwegian whalers reckon that another three years operations will effectuklly clean up the Koss Sea as a profitable whalin^ ground. . ■■.-.- •■■. ... °
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 151, 30 June 1925, Page 9
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170ROSS SEA WHALERS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 151, 30 June 1925, Page 9
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