Newfoundland Minister Presses Mineral Growth Plans
Mr Walsh, speaking in Committee of the Whole on Supply, outlines major increases for the Department of Agriculture and Mines. He cites new posts, higher salaries, repairs, and expanded surveying, aiming to hire young surveyors and emphasize mineral development, geology, and the potential of Bell Island iron and other Newfoundland resources. He urges immediate government action to secure a first class geologist and to push mineral exploration.
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Department of Agriculture and Mines
W. J. Walsh
McNeily
Ryan
Clark
Neil McLellan
Historiographer
Shortis
Noel
Turner
Government Laboratory
Partioent
Encouragement of
Apticulture
St. John's
Bell Island
United States
Canada
Mines of
Ontario
Newfoundland
Camrads
Newfouthland
Hatch
Tilt Cave
Smith MacKay
Swansea
Tilt Cove
Bett’s Cove
Tone
Jas. Colbourne
Michael Colbourne
B. B.S. Corporation
Colbourne
Lyttle Bay
Consolidated Mining Company, Ltd
Little Bay
Pilley
Bay of Notre Dame
Beil ‘Sland
Besco
North America
St. George's Bay
Placentia Bay
CH Silver
England
LaManche
Silver Gha
Isvalsa
Bude
Newfoundland Agriculture Funding Critique in 1923 24
Extract from the 1924 Report of the Board of Trade notes heavy imports of agricultural products Newfoundland could grow. The speaker condemns past Dept of Agriculture spending, warns of past mismanagement, and urges public interest in farming and improved methods to boost local production.
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Board of Trade
Newfoundland
Department of Agriculture and Mines
Maritime Provinces
American
Encouragement of Agriculture
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