WHALING ENTERPRISE
BASE PURCHASED EXPENSIVE UNDERTAKING. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 24. Mr W. F. Edmond, whose firm is agent for the Ross Sea Whaling Company, discredits the Hobart cable message, published yesterday, stating that Hobart is to be the base for a new whaling mother ship and fleet of whalers next season. He states that arrangements were completed last year by which the Norwegian Company bought a base site of 400 acres at Paterson’s Inlet, on which a fine slip has been built. In view of this and other facts, and the total absence of shell advice to himself from the company, he discredits the Hobart rumour, Mr Edmond states that the supplying of the new mother ship does not involve replacing the Sir James Clark Roes. Both will be employed after the latter returns from the voyage to America with last season’s oil. As showing the magnitude of tne undertaking and the commercial value of the base, he states that four thousand tons of Westport coal went direct to Paterson’s Inlet for the fleet last oeaeon, and tho repairs at Port Chalmers last year cost £12,000.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12404, 25 March 1926, Page 6
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188WHALING ENTERPRISE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12404, 25 March 1926, Page 6
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