WHALING INDUSTRY
ALREADY DOOMED RESULT OF UNRESTRICTED KILLING Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, February 22. (Received February 22, at 11 a.m.) Captain J. K. Davis, Commonwealth director of Navigation, who has been a member of many Antarctic expeditions, predicts,tlie almost complete extinction of whales in the Antarctic within a tew years, because of unrestricted killing by Japanese fleets. “To preserve the world’s whaling grounds 28 British and Norwegian whaling companies have formed an agreement to protect the industry through the xegu-
lation of catches and seasons,” said Captain Davis. The Japanese and German companies have disregarded this agreement. The whaling industry is already doomed. It is too late for Australia to consider entering the industry.
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Evening Star, Issue 22579, 22 February 1937, Page 8
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