7. road to the postmaster’s house. Richard wondered would Oscar’s story tell him anything more

than he already knew from his discovery at The Public Record Office of England, Wales and the U.K. earlier this year?
Back in Bryntoch in January 2002, he had searched The Public Record Office Archives, near Kew Gardens in West London to find out what he could about the history of Wild Bay. It was his way of saying thank you to the Wild Bay folk - whose hospitality he had shared in the past. Whose hospitality he was about to share again.
He had already tried Canadian National Archives and Newfoundland & Labrador Provincial Archives for historical information about Wild Bay without any real success. Then all of a sudden, as if jumping off the screen was the reference to Original Correspondence about the Labrador Development Woods Company Limited.(L.D.W.C. Ltd.) Primary evidence that had been classified Closed Papers until 1996 – 1998. Consequently, he made three visits on consecutive Saturdays into London searching for the answers to two questions for his friends in Wild Bay:
Why were insufficient houses built for the earliest settlers in 1934 and
Could “Jayo” Jeffrey have afforded to pay his workers a decent living wage?
He found that J. O. Jeffrey had in fact applied in writing to the Colonial Development Office in London for a Government loan to build 400 houses at Wild Bay in 1934. The loan had been approved on the recommendation of the English Commissioner for Natural Resources, none other than Sir James Wrigglesworth himself. Already well known for his work in China with refugees and later with the Civil Service in India, a formidable personality but now getting on in years and saddled with debts.