The Newfoundland road booster and tourist trade advocate

• Main Author: Hibbs, Richard, 1876-1940
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Union Publ. Co. 1924
• Subjects: Roads > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/82275

The Newfoundland Road Booster Newfoundland Ode -- Introduction -- Members of the Newfoundland Road Commission -- How are we to finance our road problem? -- Get busy and build roads -- Article by His Excellency the Governor -- Contrast, amounts voted for roads, Canada and Newfoundland -- Number of motor vehicles, revenue and persons per vehicle, United States, Canada and Newfoundland -- On the road to Colinet -- Article by Dr. W. R. Warren -- Important facts for motorists -- On the road to Logy Bay -- The Southern Shore: its beauties, its history, tradition and its need of roads -- Some of the greatest salmon and trout rivers in Newfoundland -- A plea for permanent bridges and culverts, by T. A. Hall -- Scientific road building -- Newfoundland a paradise for sportsmen -- Annual grants for roads voted by legislature -- Dreams of a car owner -- Good roads a necessity, by C. E. Hunt -- What good roads have done for Canada can be done for Nfld. -- The criminal code and motor vehicles -- Road work, by P. E. Outerbridge -- What good roads mean for Newfoundland -- Terra Nova, from the visitors viewpoint -- Pithy chats along the trail of the motorist -- Keep name off tombstone, by H. Clifford Brokaw -- Your automobile, how to care for and drive it, by E. H. Scott -- The Humber -- The good roads convention -- Newfoundland governors, 1728-1922 -- A strong endorsation of the good roads movement, by W. J. Higgins, K.C., M.H.A. -- "I'm feeling fine" -- Co-operation needed to create tourist trade -- Good roads, by P. G. Butler, B.C.S. -- The road commission and its work, by Thos. Soper -- The municipal council and the city streets -- The new government -- What bad roads cost you Advertising throughout; "Published in the interest of good roads for Newfoundland"