UNDERSIZED WHALES
THE FRANCO'S CATCH OBSERVER'S ALLEGATIONS (Unitecl Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) PERTH, Dec. 8. (Received Dec. 9, at 1.45 a.m.) Referring to yesterday's New York cablegram concerning the capture of undersized whales by the whaling vessel Frango, Inspector Matthew Goodlad, the Western Australian observer on the Frango from June to October, confirms the published story. Goodlad's log declares that whales 30 and 31 feet were brought aboard at dead of night and a warning was given by the Frango's captain, " If we (meaning Goodlad and Lieutenant Midtlyng) persisted in antagonising the crew by staying on the flensing deck at night we would get a knife shoved into us." The Western Australian Government takes a serious view of the Frango's alleged infringement of the whaling convention, and is sending a summary of Goodlad's log to Washington.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23678, 9 December 1938, Page 10
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