A LARGER NEWFOUNDLAND
ABSORBS PART OF CANADA The area of Newfoundland has been trebled by the judicial committee of the Privy Council, which awarded that country 120,000 square miles of Labrador. This ruling by .he highest court of appeal of the British Empire ends a quarter-century boundary dispute between Canada and Newfoundland over land and forests estimated to be worth 250,000,000 dollars. Newfoundland’s claim was granted with two reservations that will leave Canada a part of the original province of Quebec claimed by Newfoundland and Woody Island, opposite Bayance Sablon. The controversy being principally on the definition of the word “coast” and the judges reverted to Dr. Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, which said that “coast” meant not only the “edge or margin of land next to the sea,” but also a considerable tract of land bounded by and looking toward the sea.” Newfoundland’s new territory, which is twice the size of the island itself, includes 60,000 square miles of spruce forests representing great potential wealth in pulp wood for paper making.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 April 1927, Page 7
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170A LARGER NEWFOUNDLAND Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 April 1927, Page 7
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