Newfoundland in 1911, being the coronation year of King George V. and the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century (1911) (14802405003)

Placentia - The ancient French capital, ca 1911
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Title: Newfoundland in 1911, being the coronation year of King George V. and the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: McGrath, P. T. (Patrick Thomas), b. 1868
Subjects: Newfoundland and Labrador
Publisher: London : Whitehead, Morris & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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209 when a change of Avind may disperse the herds and makeit impossible for tliem to make a successful catch, theyiidhere to their principles so firmly, that some years agothe Colonial Legislature was deluged with petitions, andhad to enact a law to prohibit the killing of seals onSundays; because one or two captains, of a viking spirit, persisted in enforcing this practice against theconscientious convictions of their crews, and the latterand their fellows in the other ships, resented this strongly.Now the killing of seals is prohibited absolutely onSundays, and 4,000 men cease from this work on aSaturday night, and, regardless of the weather condi-tions, refrain fi-om it until Mondav mornin;. One ofthe principal issues before the Hague Tribunal in theInternational arbitration last year arose out of this verymatter, the enforcement against Americans by the localauthorities of the Newfoundland law, forbidding allforms of fishing on Sundays. Indeed, thirty years ago,the settlers in one