Feast Of Whale Meat
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From Our Own Correspondent
Nukualofa, Oct. 20.
THE Cook boys (half-caste sons of the old whaler, Mr. Cook) caught a big whale close to Nukualofa, on the after noon of October 15. The whale was brought to the wharf, where it was cut up for sale the following morning.
Motor lorries, weighed to their full loading capacity with whale meat, were despatched post-haste to the outlying villages, where the meat was purchased eagerly by the Tongans. Whale meat is not altogether unpalatable, and when cooked in the native ground ovens it lasts for days.