THE KING’S EMPIRE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12358, 23 June 1937, Page 2

THE KING’S EMPIRE

NEWFOUNDLAND—A BIRD’S EYE VIEW Our oldest colony, and the one' nearest to England, here is Newfoundland as we might see it lion the air. * There is St. John’s, the capital, with its fine harbour, the houses |,]: crowding down to the water-front; ib fishing fleet a rare sight nuked. There is the splendid natural barhour of Burin, with the rocky hills round about. There is the bleak, in-f ; hospitable coast with its cliffs, and its processiop of ice-bergs; and there is what is still known as Captain Cook’s Lookout, a harbour discovered by tbe great explorer, its while bouses reflected in the still waters. To remind us how hard life is in this corner of the empire we mighl well travel a few miles from St. John’s;; to a typical fishing village perched on the bare rocks above the sea. the land behind the small houses as unproductive as we can well imagine, • the sea below as sullen and treacherous as any known to sailors. Still j j another harbour for our wonder l : ■ the quaint little port of Quid! Vidius droll as its name—with the rocks, on which no green thing grow-, frowning on the water, and the little hmjses and the church gathering rfund the curving shore. "’For the picture of power we inipli'spend half a day looking on at the rush of water on the Grand Falls ; which (supply the energy needed tor ;• the paper milk; and for a sightm worth seeing we might, come to the > mills themselves, and see one of the j huge heaps' of felled timber waiting; to be made into pulp, or watch-the men steering the logs downslrtaw For a glimpse of the fishing industry, there is,,say, the entrance to the John’s harbour where thousands ol cod may be seen laying out to dry on wooden platforms. ’ fe