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Tales of Banks Peninsula

Philip Ryan

Philip Ryan.

The whaling station which appears to have followed the Ikoraki one is the one at Oashore, started in 1839 by Philip Ryan and two mates. These men were whalers who bad been working at Timaru, and were fitted out by Messrs Weller Bros., of Sydney, with all requisites for shore whaling. A full account of his life is given in a previous article taken by Mr. H C Jacobson from the old man's own lips, and it is useless to have a repetition. The account was obtained in 1893, when Mr. Ryan was 91 page 269years old, and, we believe, he lived for some years longer—in fact up to 1900, attaining the grand old age of 98.