KING OF KILLERS

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1930, Page 2

KING OF KILLERS

DEAD BODY WASHED ASHORE. WHALERS’ ALLY FOR 100 YEARS. “Old Tpmthe king of the far-famed pack killers at Twofold Bay, New South Wales ancl the last of his tribe, is no more. For over 100 he and others of the pack, at one time numbering _’s many as- thirty, rendered great service to local industry by intercepting whales travelling north -and south and driving 'them into Twofold Bay, where they kept them coralled until local whalers could complete their capture. Whil®4h® pack kept the whales cornered, Old -Tom” would station himself at th® river, month, near the whaling station, and attract the wjialevs’ attention by lashing the water with h's t||il until the boats put out of tiie river. The local aborigines had a superstition that when QIW of the tribe died he came back reiiipiirnated as a killer. Every ympig killer WiA'ffiUued htter.a departed tribesman. Years ago When a killer became stranded on Aslings Beach three whites killed it with stakes. Uns so incensed the blacks that, in f ea *- 0 their lives, the perpetratqi'S of the depd left the district. / Norwegians, who some j/npp back operated at Jervis Bay, arc believed to have accounted for a number of killers. A week before his death “Old Join was seen disporting oil Leonard s Island.

where he had. killed H but on &tide, S 3d' W dlWd into Twofold Bay: W 014 tile scene Of many thrdlipg fights. Mr. George Davidspn. mqsfer whaler, is be ing urged to set up the akelfitpli of g plff ajly at fhe whaling station at Nmh River.,, . : •: ■ ■'■ ' ■