Whaling Station For N.I.
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THE Norfolk Island Whaling and Shark ing Co., Ltd., has been formed to build a depot and station at Ball Bay, on the eastern side of the island, in con nection with the proposed resuscitation of the whale and shark catching industry.
The project has the support of the Admini strator, Sir Charles Rosenthal, who has promised to seek the aid of the Federal Government to enable the industry to get under way.
Whaling at one time was N.l.’s only export industry, but it was superseded by farming, the last whaling operations ceasing in 1925. Shark fishing for com mercial purposes has not been carried on for three years.
Mr. John F. Surr, a member of the executive staff of the Melanesian Mission in the Solomon Islands, is spending leave in New Zealand. He will join the mission vessel “Southern Cross VII” when she arrives in New Zealand on August 30 and will return with her to 8.5.1.