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Tales of Banks Peninsula

Island Bay Fishery

Island Bay Fishery.

Island Bay was the scene of whale fishing early in the forties. The first to start there were Messrs W. Green, of Green's Point, of whose life a short account is given a few pages back, and Charlie Brown, Hall and Malcolm McKinnon, who also bad an interest in this station. It has been impossible to obtain many particulars of this fishery, but the deaths of Charlie Brown and Hall are recorded. Charlie Brown left the fishery, and went away in a whaling vessel, which was never heard of any more. Hall left Akaroa one day in a whaleboat, with a quantity of provisions for the bay, and nothing was heard of the boat or its occupants. Mr. George Rhodes bought out the Island Bay fishery, and employed Sam Williams, commonly known as Yankee Sam, to whale for him. How long Me. Rhodes had the station is not known, but he sold out to Mr. James Wright, who bought the try pots from Yankee Sam. Yankee Sam left the whaling, like many others, to go to the Melbourne gold diggings.