THE WHALING INDUSTRY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10504, 12 July 1910, Page 1

THE WHALING INDUSTRY.

By Telegraph. (Special to Oamaru Mail.) Wellington, July 11. Whaling is not the profitable industry it used* to bo in New Zealand, _ and there are only lour stations remaining. At Tory Channel right and humpbacked whales are taken, oil and whalebone being the only parts used, butonly two or three are caught every year, and the same is reported of Kaikoura. At Campbell Island last year, however, 14 right whales were caught-, and at Whangamumu 16 hump-backed whales were ■ caught and all their products utilised. At this place an up-to-date whaling vessel will be used t-liis season.