WHALING INDUSTRY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 26 June 1912, Page 5

WHALING INDUSTRY.

WESTPORT, June 25. The s.s. Rakuira, of the Norwegian fishing fleet, arrived from Norway, via Cape Town. Port Natal, and Fremantle, to-night. She is fitted out with a try-mg-out installation, and a capacity for 3,000 tons of oil. The Rakuira is the floating factory of the fleet. There are in all 82 hands aboard the Rakuira. The ship will replenish her bunkers, stores, and provisions, and will leave on Thursday for Russell.