NORWEGIAN WHALERS.
RETURN FROM SUCESSFUL CRUISE.
OIL VALUED AT £IBO,OOO.
(United Presa Association— By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Preee Association.) Received 11.50 a.m.' to-day. CAPETOWN, Oct. 31.
Fouir Norwegian whalers have returned from, the West Australian grounds. Captain Olsen, who has had a long experience fn the, Antarctic, said that he 'had never before done so well. Twenty whales were-, .sometimes caught in one day. They were smaller, halt fatter than the Antarctic whales, 'and produced 30,000 barrels of oil, -valued at £IBO,OOO. Owing; to the hazardous landing at Point Cloates, the sailors had not left their isihips for three years. After a craise in the South Atlantic, Captain Olsen will return in May to Aus-raiha.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1928, Page 9
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