STORY CONFIRMED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21215, 9 December 1938, Page 9

STORY CONFIRMED

INFRINGEMENT OF WHALING CONVENTION Onlted Press Association —By Electric Telegraph-Copyright (Received December 9. 1 a.m.) PERTH, December 8. Referring to yesterday's New York cablegram, anent the capture of Undersized sharks by the whaling vessel Frango, Inspector Matthew Goodlad, a West Australian observer on the Frango from June to October, confirms the published story. inspector Goodlad's log declares that whales, 30 to 31 feet, were brought aboard at the dead of night and a warning was given by the Frango's captain that "If we,” meaning Inspector Goodlad and Lieutenant Mldtlyng. "persisted in antagonising the crew by staying on the flensing deck at night, we would get a knife shoved into us.” The West Australian Government takes a serious view of the Frango's alleged infringement of the whaling convention and is sending a summary of Inspector Goodlad's log to Washington. Yesterday’s cable reported that the Federal Courts authorities had boarded the American whaler Frango, and seized a portion of its 1,000,000 dollar cargo of whale oil, due to alleged violations of the international treaty, limiting the killing of whales. A similar seizure was made of the tanker Waterton, which transported part of the Frango's cargo from Sharks Bay, Western Australia.