DOUBT AS TO FUTURE OF WHALE INDUSTRY.
ORNITHOLOGIST RETURNS FROM ANTARCTIC SEAS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 31. Mr A. R. Falla, who was ornithologist to the Mawson Antarctic Expedition, returned to-day. He expressed doubt as to the future of the whale oil industry, as there were in the Antarctic Circle forty factory ships with 220 chasers attached to them. Seals, which were still unprotected, existed in large numbers, but exploitation had not yet been considered seriously, as was the case in the Arctic. Mr Falla said that whaling ships were operating from New Zealand, Tasmania and South Africa, but no Australian companies w r ere engaged. He thought that if New Zealanders were proposing the formation of whaling companies they were perhaps a little late. Sir Douglas Mawson’s ship Discovery had completed her programme and was likely to return to England shortly.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 31 March 1931, Page 6
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