With the season only half completed, and ivith a big total of captures already made, the whaling station at Te Aivaite, at the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound, has been in operation at full capacity for more than a month. Above, a'large blue whale ivhich was recently caught by Messrs. Perano Brothers, and said to be the biggest ever taken by their boats in nearly thirty years' experience. This monster was 93 feet in length and toeighed approximately 90 tons. The whale was towed into Tory Channel by the little steamer Tuatea, after having towed a chaser twenty miles out towards Cape Campbell. On the right, flensing in process on a whale which has been hauled up the slipway at Te Awaite ivhaling station. After the blubber has been removed it is cut up to extract the oil.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 13, 15 July 1938, Page 7

With the season only half completed, and ivith a big total of captures already made, the whaling station at Te Aivaite, at the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound, has been in operation at full capacity for more than a month. Above, a'large blue whale ivhich was recently caught by Messrs. Perano Brothers, and said to be the biggest ever taken by their boats in nearly thirty years' experience. This monster was 93 feet in length and toeighed approximately 90 tons. The whale was towed into Tory Channel by the little steamer Tuatea, after having towed a chaser twenty miles out towards Cape Campbell. On the right, flensing in process on a whale which has been hauled up the slipway at Te Awaite ivhaling station. After the blubber has been removed it is cut up to extract the oil.