Newfoundland provided the pay and allowances of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment (6,326 all ranks) and made up the difference in pay to bring the Royal (Newfoundland) Naval Reserve to the same scale as that of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, besides equipping the Royal Newfoundland Regiment before proceeding overseas.
FOOTNOTES:
[51] See a letter from the able correspondent of The Times in Newfoundland, November 6th, 1900.
[52] P.T. M'Grath, "Newfoundland in 1911," p. 24.
[53] This question has already been referred to several times in the preceding pages (see especially beginning of chap. viii). It may be added here that in March 1906, the Prime Minister of Canada stated that the Government of Newfoundland was fully aware that the Government of Canada was ready to entertain a proposal for the entry of the island into the confederation.
[54] For the statement following the writer is indebted to Sir Edgar Bowring, the High Commissioner of Newfoundland.
[55] Instead of maintaining a hospital overseas, Newfoundland supported 301 beds in addition to 32 in Newfoundland.