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~ SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT PLACENTIA TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS 1662-1962 Part of the Pageant Re-enactment of original landing by the French in 1662 -Photo Frank Kennedy, Daily New5 SEASON' S GREETINGS TO ALL OUR READERS ST. JOHN'S oCOG GANDER D COT It's a fact ... GRAND FALLS D COY CORNER BROOK You can't cover Newfoundland without CBC Radio It's a fact! There's just no other way to get all your messages to all the people in Newfound land without CBC Radio's ef fective, economical coverage. Contact Another fact - business is good and availabilities are CBC RADIO SALES always limited. Get your or GROBIN BLDG. der in now! CHURCH HILL, ST. JOHN'S PHONE 8-7181. C 8 C RADIO SALES THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY PROVINCE OF NEWFOUNDLAND DEPARTMENT OF MINES, AGRICULTURE AND RESOURCES There's A Mining Boom m Newfoundland TRAINED MEN ARE NEEDED During the past few years we have produced About one-third of Canada's iron ore; All the fluorspar; About ten per cent of her lead and zinc; more than three per cent of her cop per and silver. Significant amounts of limestone, cement, gypsum and pyrophillite. We have new mines Maritimes Mining Corpn. Ltd. started production in Aug. 1957 at Tilt Cove. Atlantic Coast Copper Corpn. has started production in July 1961 . Advocate's asbestos at Baie Verte is exciting mining people with its great potential; Encouraging exploration is being done in a dozen more places. Trained men are in great demand- Mining engineers, geologists, prospectors and construction men and tradesmen of all kinds are being used in increasing numbers every year. Young Newfoundlanders can qualify for the very best jobs at Technical and Trade Schools; at Memorial University in St. John's, or on the Mainland, and in many ways can get immediate assistance in the form of scholarships and grants. DEPARTMENT OF MINES, AGRICULTURE AND RESOURCES - ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND 2 THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY The Newfoundland Quarterly Issued every third month March, June, September, and December. L. W. Janes ........................................................ Editor and Publisher Telephone 92185 Robert Saunders, J.D., Ph.D.. ....................... Contributing EditOJ P. 0. Box 5874, St. John's, ewfoundlaad An Historic Date .......... 3 Extracts from Sir Joseph Bank's Journal ............................. 5 SUBSCRIPTION R.ATES Stand Fast for ewfoundland-Dr. Saunders ................... 9 The Newfoundland Police Force-A. R. 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OR PHONE COLLECT JOHN CLOUSTON LIMITED 172 Duckworth St. P. 0. Box E-5166 ONE LOCATION ONLY DIAL 85081 THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY Opening new doorways of knowl'edg.e about Newfoundland VOL. LXI Canada $1.00 Per Year No.4 Foreign $1.25 Per Year ST . JOHN---'S, NFLD ., WINTER, 1962 6 1st ANNIVERSARY MARCONI'S FIRST MESSAGE The following item appeared in the calm came, and snapped off everything SL John's "Evening Herald" on Thurs holding it, then soaring away into the day, December 12, 1901: dense atmosphere beyond vision. Fortun ately, Mr. Marconi is provided for such "On Tuesday afternoon, Signor Marconi losses and has other balloons to send up. sent up a large kite at Signal Hill to test Cabot Tower overlooking St. J ohn's from the velocity of the wind and make other (He resumes operations today and hopes the top of Si~al Hill where Marconi sent the first ·wireless message. experiments. Yesterday, although the top to pick up some large ship in mid-ocean of the hill was enveloped in fog, a balloon and establish (wireless) communications). was inflated, four wires and a rope were ing Herald" was setting up the above attached and the affair was then released. item for its issue of Thursday, December So well had Marconi kept his secret T he Balloon ascended rapidly but the 12th, 1901 , Marconi was receiving on the that no one in St. John's, and few people b reeze was too strong and it was carried top of Signal Hill the first Trans-Atlantic elsewhere knew that he was trying to re well in over the land. wireless message. It came shortly after ceive wireless signals across the Atlantic noon from Polclhu in Cornwall, and the "Just before the operator thought of ocean. He had given out that he was signal was the Jetter "S" of the Morse bringing back the balloon, a sudden heavy trying to establish communication by code, "S" for "Success". breeze swept it down towards the earth, wireless with a ship passing a few hun and almost as suddenly died out. The dred miles off t. John's. But the fact This month is the 6lst anniversary of balloon went up with a jerk when the was that just about the time the "Even- Marconi's first Message. It Pays to Rememb~r . • • for WALL PAPERS AND PAINTS 4 THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY !Drtttnrial mniurrsity Of Nrwfnltnillanil ST. 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T H E NEWFO UNDLAND QUARTERLY 5 Extracts lro•n (Continued from Fall Issue) Being a journal of a voyage to Newfoundland & Labrado r co mmencing April the seventh and ending November the seventeenth, 1766. 1 shall now mention the methods of the 3 or 4 troughs full of fish becomes ex first of their officers are not qualified French which are different from ours. ceedingly muddy o much that I have for their office unless they can sing In some of which (as [ said before) tieen it discoloured for 20 or 30 yards which they do to amuse the people who they excel! us but more in their ncat round the trough. The situation too so occasionally all JOlll the chorus, tJ1e ne · · and manner of carrying on busi near the stage makes the water round it whole time of their splitting. I remem ness among their people than in any subject to the corrupted and stink in a ber coming into a French stage and hear superiority of point of curing. manner not to be described from the ing Voi .\ mante as agreeably sung as quantities of cods, head~ and guts, thrown 1 ever heard it by the majot· and seconds, Their boats are not much more than in by the splitters. the first of whom had a remarkabl) good half as large as ours, much more clumsily ''oice. T h ese officers being of some b uilt and less adapted for sailing. Each In t h ese \'ery essential particulars we consequence among the people and com of the m are wot·ked b) three men who excel! them but in the neatness of their monly goin g pretty well dressed ha\ e each fish with two lines in the same stages and manner of working they are an ingenious way of keeping themsehe. manner and with the same bait as our much our superior . clean in the dirty operation of splittin g . people. This when the fi h will take They ha\ e a case made of bark to co,·cr bait but they, who in general come earl them from the chins to their heels which ier upon the coast than we do, begin e FRENCH METHOD OF constantly stands o\et· their stools in the a l-;o to fish before us, by a method called CURING FISH splitting table. Into thi they creep he re jigging, done by 2 large hooks each e T H E N IGH T T H E WHOBBYS and putting on sleeves a n d la1·ge woollen o f them twice as large as those used for CAME g lo\'es split the fish in a manner with ba it.