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Show iJAPS VERY FOND OF WHALE TAILS VICTORIA. B. C. Oct 2. When I the Arizona Maru completed ther recent re-cent voyage from Victoria to Yokohama. Yoko-hama. Japan, she was eagerly welcomed wel-comed by epicurean Japan- so, for she carried as part of her cargo a shipment ship-ment of 1". tons of British Columbia whale tails. This delicacy, the first to be shipped to Japan by tho Consolidated Con-solidated Whaling Corporation in a long time. La held in great favor there, in fact, the Japanese believe that "a whalf tail a day keeps the doctor away." The wha'ing companies around Victoria did not operate last year and the Japanese ax a result, H Is said, were forced to patronize the medical profeilon more than usual. |