LIST OF WHALING LICENCES ISSUED for the DEPENDENCY OF THE SOUTH ORKNEYS FOR THE SEASON 1914-15.
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No. 11.
FALKLAND ISLANDS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 14th January, 1915.)
[Copy to Board of Trade, Admiralty, and Foreign Office, 4th March, 1915. 'L.F.F.]
(Confidential.)
SIR,
Government House, Stanley, 23rd November, 1914.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential despatch of the 8th August,* relative to the statistics of the whaling operations in the dependencies, other than South Georgia, during the 1913-14 season.
2. I regret that the collector's statement transmitted in my despatch No. 61, of 3rd June,* was not uniform with the list of licences given as an enclosure to my Confidential despatch of the 25th April, 1913,† and I attach an amended statement prepared on the lines indicated by you. Returns for the Nor Company and the Sociedad Ballenera de Magellanes are now included.
3. With regard to the licences issued for the waters of the South Orkneys, neither the Haugesund Company nor the Coronation Company operated during the season in question. The Normanna Company, as reported in Administrator Dickson's despatch No. 177, of the 22nd December, 1913, was permitted to use the licence of the Pacific Company.
4. Messrs. Salvesen's whaling station at New Island, West Falkland, carries on business under the name of the New Whaling Company, but this name was inserted in error in the statement of statistics previously submitted, which has reference to the South Shetlands and Graham's Land and the South Orkneys only.
I have, &c.,
W. L. ALLARDYCE,
Governor.
Enclosure in No. 11.
STATEMENT SHOWING THE NUMBER AND DESCRIPTION OF WHALES CAPTURED; THE NUMBER OF BARRELS OF Whale Oil; AND THE APPROXIMATE Value, IN RESPECT OF THE WHALING COMPANIES OPERATING IN THE WATERS of the DependenciES OF THE SOUTH SHETLANDS, GRAHAM'S LAND, AND THE SOUTH ORKNEYS, DURING THE WHALING SEASON ENDING THE 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1914.
South Shetlands,
Description of Whales caught.
Total.
Name of Company.
Barrels of Oil.
Approximate Value.
Blue.
Fin. Humpback. Right.
Number of
Licence.
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The Norge Company
169
242
99
510
24,000
98,000
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The Hektor Company.
880
856
47
788 88,100
152,400
The Hvalen Company.
106
281
108
495
The Laboremus Company
187
208
74
524
The Odd Company
187
255
151
The Ornen Company
181
260
52
493
22,200 22,000 88,000 543 20,000 80,000 29,000 92,000
88,800
The Southern Company Sälvesen and Company
150
182
279
611
18,000 72,000
102
259
167
585
19,000
Ditto
The Nor Company, Ballonera de Magallanes
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76,000 6,628 26,512 17,000 68,000 12,000
48,000
Totals
1,472
2,092
977
8
4,544
221,028
£887,712
24339: not printed.
t No. 28 in Miscellaneous No. 278.
1855: not printed.
Licensee,
1. Rethval and Thule Whaling Companies (H. Fredriksen), Christiania, Norway.
2. Hektor Whaling Company (N. Bugge), Tonsberg, Norway.
3. Normanna Whaling Com- pany (Haldor Virik), San- defjord, Norway.
Lindoe),
4. Haugesund Whaling Com- (Erich pany Haugesund, Norway.
Name of Vessel.
"Falkland" "Paal"
17
" Powell " "Dove "Ronald "
"Normanna" "Norman I."
Ravn"
12
Augvald "
Type of Vessel.
Floating factory
Whale catcher Whale catcher
3rd whale catcher Floating factory Whale catcher Whale catcher
Floating factory Whale catcher Whale catcher
Floating factory
Whale catcher
Whale catcher
The vessels f.f. Hektoria," s.w. "Edle," and s.w. "Ross" are also used under the termis of this Company's Deception Island lease.
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