982 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



prises the coast proper and the bays, harbours, and creeks as a gen- 

 eral name which includes what is called " coasts " in the plural and 

 the bays and harbours. 



SIR JAMES WINTER: That is in the second place in the second 

 case? 



DR. DRAGO: Yes. 



SIR JAMES WINTER: No, with all respect, because it says there: 

 " On the southern coast of Labrador." 



DR. DRAGO : Yes. That is it. 



SIR JAMES WINTER : That is in the singular ? 



DR. DRAGO: Yes; of course. But it begins with the plural the 

 " coasts " on the southern " coast " of Labrador. 



SIR JAMES WINTER: Yes. Well, then, my answer to that is this, 

 with all due respect: The coasts, bays, harbours, and creeks from 

 Mount Joli, on the southern coast of Labrador, away northward 

 indefinitely, meant all the coasts, starting with Mount Joli, on the 

 southern coast, down indefinitely, which comprised three coasts the 

 southern, eastern, and northern. That is my answer to that. Start- 

 ing from Mount Joli, on the southern coast, and extending north- 

 wardly indefinitely, within those limits, or no limit indefinitely on 

 the coasts of Labrador, they were to have the right to catch fish. 

 590 SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK : The southern, eastern, and north- 

 ern coasts? 



SIR JAMES WINTER: Yes. 



SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK : How do you make that construction fit 

 in with what immediately precedes, when they speak of the western 

 and northern coast of Newfoundland? 



SIR JAMES WINTER : That is one coast, the west and north coast. 



SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK : Why do they make that one coast, and 

 three coasts of the other, the Labrador coast? 



SIR JAMES WINTER : They so describe it, as one coast, known as the 

 west and north coast, from Cape Ray to Quirpon. Looking at the 

 map, it will be seen that it would come within that description ; that 

 it is one coast, one strip, one area, extending from Cape Ray to Quir- 

 pon, which could be described as on the west and north; being very 

 nearly in a straight line. Those are the limits, and in order not to 

 make confusion, we call it west and north west and north from Cape 

 Ray to Quirpon one coast ; the north-west coast, it might have been 

 called. You might call it a mixed coast, but it is one coast, one area, 

 one limit, from Cape Ray to Quirpon, and described by the words 

 western and northern coast. On the contrary, the coasts of Labrador 

 are described generally without the limitations as being the south 

 coast, the eastern coast, and the northern coast. That was generally 

 the manner in which they were described by the parties themselves, 

 in their correspondence, and reduced into the treaty. 



