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...Spunky Newfoundlanders, famed for the free & easy way they have of pummeling an unpopular premier and smashing furniture in their Government Offices when aroused, were scathingly told by a Royal Commission last week that in Newfoundland "a continuing process of greed, graft and corruption has left few classes of the community untouched by its insidious influence...
...result, the condition of Newfoundland is "desperate." both politically and financially, according to the Royal 'Commission headed by that uncompromising, vinegar-tongued Scot, Sir William Warrender Mackenzie, ist Baron Amulree of Strathbraan. Last week prudent Lord Amulree had put the Atlantic between himself and Newfoundland when his Commission's report was published simultaneously in London and at St. John's. It declared 'that Newfoundland's chief industry-fisheries-is rotten to the core, that Newfoundland fishermen have become, under a "vicious credit system," practically the serfs of the merchants of St. John...
...formed Sopwith Aviation Co. Ltd. which produced the Camels, Pups and Dolphins flown by Allied pilots in the War. After the War he took as partner his longtime test-pilot Harry Hawker, who in 1919 attempted the first transatlantic flight and was picked out of the sea off Newfoundland. Their company, now named H. G. Hawker Engineering Co. Ltd., produces nearly half the planes currently flown by the Royal Air Force. His rich business enabled Builder Sopwith to live in a mansion near Park Lane. After the death of his first wife, a daughter of 8th Baron Ruthven...
...summer prospectors have been scouring the Dominion of Newfoundland for gold. Prospectors and syndicates have staked hundreds of square miles of claims. Following reports of rich strikes, small steamships and airplanes have been carrying eager men and supplies into the wilderness in gold rush fashion. Excited, the Dominion government hired Professor Alfred Kitchener Snelgrove of Princeton, and F. W. Foote, Manhattan mining engineer, to make an expert survey. Last week the Government released the first section of their report. Messrs. Snelgrove & Foote said that it was not unlikely gold would be found, added-like a douche of cold water-that...
There was a sad moment when Rome heard how the 24 seaplanes, which flew neatly from Newfoundland to the Azores, were cut to 23. Capt. Ranieri's ship...