WHALING INDUSTRY
PRESERVING THE SPECIES
New Zealand, as a signatory to an international convention relating to the whaling industry which was signed at Geneva in 1931, is brought into line with the other signatories by the Whaling Industry Bill, which passed all stages in the House of Representatives last evening. The Prime .Minister- (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) said that the principal object of the Bill was the conservation of various species of whales by providing penalties for persons convicted of their wholesale slaughter. It was provided in the Bill that if a person belonging to a ship killed or attempted to kill a right whale, an immature whale, or a female which was accompanied by a calf, he would be liable to imprisonment for three months or to a fine not exceeding £200 and an additional fine not exceeding the value of the products (if any) obtained or obtainable from the whale or to both. It was difficult for New Zealand to regulate the taking of whales in the Antarctic, said Mr. Forbes, but the Bill was an attempt to prevent the wholesale slaughter of whales. It was felt that the extinction of the right whale would be a thing to be deplored, but whether the legislation would be effective or not was another matter.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 99, 23 October 1935, Page 15
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217WHALING INDUSTRY Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 99, 23 October 1935, Page 15
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