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 52 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-REGULATION OF WHALING-JUNE 8, 1937 such Powers as are interested in the whaling industry but were not represented at the present Conference. The Conference recognises that the purpose of the present Agreement may be defeated by the development of unregulated whaling by other countries, in which case it would be a matter for consideration whether the present Agreement should be continued in force, or whether the contracting Governments should not agree to modify their regulations to meet the situation thus created, or even to permit their nationals to pursue whaling without regulation, so that they may derive from its pursuit such benefit as may be had before the stock of whales has been re- duced to a level at which whaling ceases to be remunerative. For the Conference is convinced that, unless whaling is now strictly regulated, that eventuality cannot be regarded as remote. 11. In conclusion, the Conference desires to urge that a further Conference should be held at a convenient time next year, at which the results of the forthcoming season may be studied and the ques- tion of the modification or extension of the present Agreement be considered. Done in London, the 8th day of June, 1937, in a single copy, snaturs. which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, by whom certified copies will be transmitted to the other Governments which have signed the Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling. For the Government of the Union of South Africa: F. J. DU Torr. For the Government of the United States of America: HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. REMINGTON KELLOGG. For the Government of the Argentine Republio: MANUEL E. MALBRAN. M. FINCATI. T. L. MARINI. For the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia: S. M. BRUCE. For the Government of Germany: WOHLTHAT. For the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: HENRY G. MAURICE. GEO. HOOARTH. For the Government of the Irish Free State: SEAN O'FAOLAIN O'DULCHAONTGH. For the Government of New Zealand: G. McNAMARA. For the Government of Norway: BIRGER BERGERSEN. 1469

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