Proceedings of the House of Assembly During the Fifth Session of the Thirtieth General Assembly of Newfoundland 1 955 P'RINTl:0 IN CAN AOA '9,V G U A l'tOIAN LIMI T E'O, ltT . JOHN ' S , NFL O. ,.

Proceedings of the House of Assem bly of Newfou ndland Session 1955 WEDNF.SDAY, M ARCH 22, 1955 The llou.sc m et at 3:00 of the d ock in the aftemoon, pursu ant to aujourn. ,nen L H is Honour the Licutcnant •Cove r. nor read the Speech fr.om the T•hrone. M,R. S PEARER AND GF.NTL! -:\{E:-J OF THE HONOURA ilLli H OUSE OF ASSl•:>,\.CDI .Y: Tl1e ye,u 1955 is the o ue •hundrelh anui ver.,,uy of the inaugura Lion d R espo nsi·l>Je Gov~rnmcn t iu Newfou nd• land.

Rep resen tative Govt'rn rncnt was csta:blisloed in 1832, hut once the prin­ cipa l o[ pop ulllr reprt'S,!'nlaLion had been accepted it was inel'itab le that full respons ibility wou ld eventuall y be excl'ciscd by the c!ccied legislatu re. My Mini~tcrs will <lcscrihc !heir plans fol' 1·he officia l obscrv~nce of Ll1e Cen ­ tenary of Respon.sihle Gov:emment in N=.foundl ancl, antl you will be asked to gra n t the necessary fu nds fo r the purpo se.

J ust a5 1955 is a n otable year in the constilutiona ] J,isLory of Ncwfound­ laud, so it i~ also in the mn.nitu tior, of the J\riti sh island-colony of Jamaica which ccl ebratt'S this year its three hundre th auni vcr,,,ny of British colo ni­ al sta tus. The p eop le o f Jaiuaic.a. are now well advanced along tbe road to full ir~pons>bili ty in the adro inis ­ tratfon of their pu,hlic aflair .,, ancl arc taking an acLivc part. in t'be great. cau~e of .Ill'it ish federation in the C'.a­ Dihbean.

New fou ndland and tbc Brit· fah Colo nit'.s of the {',ari:hbean have traded ront-in uously with each o ther £-or a looger peri od tba n have any other -part s of the \Vestern Hemis ­ phere. Newfo undl and and Lhe Brit­ ish We;t Ind ic~ were the blrth-placc., of the British colonial empi re and· they have 1nuch of their hi.story in coinmuu .

It is o ur w ish lhat the >fricrnl licsL ft'el ­ ings an<l rel ations will mnLin ue to nou rish betwee n Lhe Briti~J, Isla nds of th is Hem isphe re. ·when tl1e T erms o[ Union of New­ fo11nd land and C.amida were being drafted in Otl~wa it -was fel t by the reprc.1en1ativc.s of N ewfou n,l!an<l an<l by those of Canad a, that it -was ex­ tremely diffi cult, ii nol impossi!ble, to ,[oresce the eBfect of Con federatio n 1.1po11 the fin ance., of the new proposed Pmvinc,e o.E Newfou ndland.

Recogni z­ ing this diffirnlt y, the rcµres cnta tivcs o f :both cc,unt nies •wrnte, and tl,e Parliame nt o{ the Un ited Kingdom and the l'arli amcn t of Canada con­ firmed, a T erm which was designate d tu dca l a<lequa tdy ~vitli this s-itua tion. Thi• is Term N11m:ber ~9. Unde r it Canada is t.o appoin t a Royal Com­ mission to review the finan cial impli­ catiun5 of Coufed cntion for New­ foundla nd, an,i 10 report the form and liCale of the fina ncial as.~i5tan ce tha t Ne,,,,.[oundlan d will need to maiu­ taiu h<"r pnhli c ~t·1Ykcs.

As this R oyal Com mis.~ion i~ 10 be appointed with in eight rear,; of the datl!' o f Union. my Mini sten thou ght -ii wise to pre-pare for the task o ( presenti ng Ncwfo11ncl­ lancl's c:tSe for additi ona l finan cial assistan ce from Lhe Govern rnent of Canada. A Royal Commi s~ion of New­ foundla nder.. ha$ l>t,en a t •wQrk for many months -past a ncl rhanks lo their patr iotic and valua-bl c St!tVict".s my Governme nt will :b., equ ipp ed to put Newfou ndland '.< case forwa1:d w ith efficiency and vigor.

When -New­ fou ncllan d ent-:e1·ed the Caua,liau Con• fcilerat iou our public service~ were l1dng maint aine r! at a level which fell , in most ca.ie5, consid erably helow that of the nea 't'by Maritim e Pro,•inces

4 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS o( Cana ua. Sinc,e that date my Gov­ ernment have striven to raise the ltvd of our pnhlic serv ices. and it is com­ mon knowledge that they have met with a considua:blc <lcgress of sncccss in this direction . However the level of our pub lie services is still. for the greater part, well below that of the ncigMJo\\ring Provinces, antl it is the policy of my Mini$ter to concentrate their cfforLS on reducing the gap u rapid ily as m ay be feasible within the Jirnics of sound financial practice.

These efforts will be continncd to the time of the appointment o[ the R.oyal Commission on Review o( th~ Terms. The extent to which thal can be done after the Royal Commis,;ion has sub­ mitted i~ report 1vill depend largely , of course, upon the form and scale of the add itional finandnl auistance that may come from the Government of Canada. My Government continue to pnrsue their ,policy o( cxtcnc.liui: anu strength cning local ~clf-govcnun ent.

Five new Municipal ities hllve ·bc1:11 incoql(Jr:ucd since we last met, ·hri11gi11g up to 53 the num'her oC Tl)wn Couuc lls, Rural Distl' ict C..oundl<; antl Community Councils now in opcr.1.lion in t he Prov­ ince . Newfoundland's second dty hai been created ·by <lcm0<:ratic decision on the part <if the :people of Humber­ mouth, Corner Drook East, Comer Brook, Corner Brook West and Curl· ing. A Bill will be laid before you to give effect to the whites of the ,people of these an:a., . That. thi~ ne,w City will pro~per and expan<l is I feel su11~ the ~•ish of every Newfoundlander.

The shortage of suita'blc housing for our people contin ues to haras, many families, aud you will be a~ked to provide !uncl.s for the con~tructi on of many new dwellin~ in the coming sea&en. It has long •been th e belief of my Minister ~ that the Tourist trMe should be develo,pcd in this Province and that active He.pi shnuld 11Je taken to bring this ahout. A Tour, ist Ocvelopmenl Loan Hoard ·has f,etn appointed and you will ·he informed of loans made or facili tated by the JJoard for the building of ca·bins and other cstah• li~hments designed to cate r c~eciall y to the requirement'! of tourists.

Announc.,mcnt has already 1been mad e of the inter, tlon to hav e Signal Hill consl•itute<l a Nation al Historic Site, and of the plan to create the Sir Richard Squires Memorial Park in the area <J( flig Fa]l8 on the Upper Hom­ her 'River. M y Miniir .ers have ap­ proached wit h great C".iuLion the pro­ posal to facill ta te the CJ'eation of a Na,tinnal ?'ark in the area 'between the head of Clo, Ic Sound and Clovertown.

Thc-ir cau tion has not ,been prompted by the Jea~t di~inclination to see Sll'Ch a Park established, ib11t rather by the fa ct tha t once the lnnd for a N ational Park is tran~ferretl to the Gov ern­ ment df Cana,la the mine rals under Lhc snil, and the tim1her a nd water­ powers on the soil , of Lhat land are withd rltlvu from commercial or indus­ trial u~e.

My Mini sters are not con­ vinced that they sh<.mltl ask yn•.t lo authm:iizc the tking u-p of important natural resoura,s even for w valu.1,t,le a considcTlltion a.~ a Natio nal Park. 'l'hc rnaLter will con liuue to receive careful attention hy t•hc Gm•ernmen t of Nmvfouud.lan,l ,in close consultation with the Government of Canada. My Governmen t arc co-operating actively with certain municipal au­ th,,riti es, and with the Governme nt of Canada, for the pur,pose of establish­ ing some hadiy•uceded air-str ips throughout the •Province. These would ~erve the interests of tourist&

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 5 as well as our own peopl e and should prove to ·be 0£ much value in the strengthening of our Newfound land economy. T he lmildiu g df the .Newfou udla ncl

section of the T rans-C ana da Highroad is .pmgreij sing as rapidly as oircum­ stan ces will pemiit and considera ble work. will be done duri ng the oomi ng season. It is vitally necessary to New­ foundland's cx,pa ncling economy tha t the road across the Isla nd .J.ie hnilt as quockly as the financial and othe r re­ sources of my Government will ~ermit.

However my MiniH ers feel that, im­ portant as the Trans -Canada road is, they should pu~h vigorously forw ard with thei1· -programme of repai ring, renew ing and rebuildin g old roads, and b uilding new roads, to serve the hundreds of thou .,ands ,of our people who live around our coastlin e. J:t would 1be the hoight of irony if a modern railway spanued the Island from e3.3t to west aud -the maj ority of the popu lation had no access to that road and ,if many communities were unprovided ~vith road communicati ons "between themselve s.

It should 1be re­ membered that in prep aring .foT a grea tly expanded tourist •trade in New­ foundland we are at the san1e time endeav ouri ng co make Newfoundland more att ractive for our own people. MR. SPEAKE R AND GF.NTLEMF.N OF THE HONOl.J.RA.RLE HOUSE OF ASSEM.BLY : The rcmarka t ,le prosp eri ty of receu t years continu es to ibll!Ss our Provin ce an,! peop le. So .far tfrom showing ~gns of slowing down this pros,perity gives ever y evide nce of still more growth and virility in the year upon which we h ave enter ed.

My Minis ters are fully convin ced tha t this prosperity must be fostered un the main by pr.i­ vate euterprisc 'Wlhich It is their policy to enco urage and they are willi ng and anxious to be of what.ever legitimate assistan ce may ·be poss!Jble for !.he at­ tainment of this object ive. T-he work of the recently appo inted Fisheries Devdopme nt Authority i.s now beginning to take defi nite shape and directio n. With the clme collabora­ tion of the Government of Canada the Authori ty will this year laun ch the actu al development projects rwhich. were laid befo re you last year .

My Ministers are hopef ul that private en­ terprise will take careful note of these proj,ccls and will -be quick to emulate the m ,if they prove to :be technolo gi­ cally and economica lly sound. My Mini sters were grnt i.fied last year when the ,practic al implementation of the Federal juTisdictio n in the f.icld of foreign markets was, so far as our Newfoundland salt cod.fl1h is con­ cerned , tr~nsfened to the emin ent Minht er of Trade and Commerce.

My Minist ers feel, however, ~hat New ­ found land 1business interests, our fi!h merchants and fish ex,porlers, are by no means relieved of their responsibil­ ity for making actual sales of fob in our old and his to11ic mark.els. It fa they, and not the Minis ter of Trade aud C'.ornmerce of Canada , who are cx·pected to do tl,e actual market ing, whethe r that h done through NAF.EL or any other medium. My Govern­ ment do not and will not abrogate their own respons ibility in this matter.

Econom ic and fiuancia l ruin would e.nsue ~f our produ ctio n of salted cod­ fis·h coul d not •be !!Old at a profit iu the markets outsid e Canada. New • fou ndlancl i$ now the last remaining part of the Western H emisphe re where any consider ahle qnant ity of dry cod­ flab is still l.Jeing produced and so ma11y of our people still find the catch ing and sal ting of codfilsh to be thei r only mean s of iubsistence tha t

6 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS it would be ca Lastrophic if loss of proJi table rnarkets deprived our [ish­ enncn of an outlet for their fish. ,My Ministen have never ceased to believe that the greatest opportnnities for building permaneul prosperity in Newfoundland l,ic in the discovery and development of its natural resources. Thei 1· firm be lid in the possibilities ol d e,·elopmen t of some forms of agri­ cult1ne led them to prow re the crea­ tion of a Royal Commission on Agri­ cul L LHe of which Dean A. ',,V, Shaw, C.M.G., Jl.S.A., was Chairman.

That Corr,mission has cotnplett:d two years of c:areful, pa·insl'aking work, and tIB'ir report will be laid hcforc yo11 in clue course. \Iy ll·linist.ers have had the a,lvantage <1f sedng srnr,c pHts of the report, for l11cse we,-,. submil'.ted l,y the Royal C:mmnission in cases where it was felt that action tJ,e,con might be takeu early in the pre.s<<nl year.

Arising Olll o[ their .,Ludy o-f t.hC$C ad­ vance sertions o[ the report ~ polic)' !ms hccn o<lnpl C(l ~nively Lo etu:our­ ag,- rho; rsf~,1Jlbh1nent of mink-raising ranches in -Ne11"foundland ,rnd you will be a,ke,T 10 pn,viclc 1'11ncl,; to imple­ ment this pohlcy by makin~ commercial Joans, at an economic: rntc of interest, available tn individua 1 rancher., and gnmps of ranchers, as well as the pro­ vis,io11 of the :services of ;.1 vet•~Yi-nat 4 ian ~xl'cricnced in mink, and other public .services for the encouragement of this industry, You will also be asked to provide funds to euablc my Government to bunch a namber of other pmgrammc~ rccomme11dcd by the Royal Commission.

Jn the fiel,l of mining, Ilell Jslarnl, Jludians and SL Lawrence, onr three principal ccntreR, continue to produce and proiper while in Labrador great and historical developments have taken plac.c. The Iron Ore Company oI Canada, whkh only last year mined and shippe,l its first output of iron ore, expects to ,hip some seven mil­ lion lom in the present year.

M~au­ whi\e near the south-western corner of that part of Labrador grnntccl to New­ foundland ,md Labrador Coporation, the Canadian Javelin Company have rliscovcrcd and drilled a great new de,posit o[ a wash-grade iron ore amrn111ling to at le»st many hundreds of rnillious of tons, It will ,be the w,ish of everybody in Ncwfonn<lland that this new find will quickly be brought into active develnpment.

The Newfoundland and Labrn<lor Corpora­ tion, that grtat grouping of famons n ri tis h, Canadian and other inclnslrial alld financial concerns, continues its inle11,ivc programme of exploration in bo1·h Newfuullllla11u and Labra<lor. My Ministers a1e happy to welcome Mr. M . .J. Iloylen lo Ncll•fournlland, and :ill XNvfoundlan<iers will 'he pleased to knuw that thi.~ famons Canadian mining ,nan h;,s her:ornc interested in the mineral possihi1ilics of this Pro­ vince. MR.

SPEi\TmR AND GENT\LEMEN OF THE HONOURABLE BOUSE OF AS-SEiMBLY: It is now just over a year since rny Government ap,point.cd the Royal Commission on Forestry, under the ckdnuansha•p of Major General IIo­ w,ml Kennedy, C.11.E., M.C. Il.Sc., \f. E.I:C. This <'.<irmnission ha~ travel­ led thollsancls of miles throughout the Province interviewee! many people, and exam·ined many of our stands of timb~r.

My Ministers were most anx­ ious to know whet.her there was enough timber growing in Ncwfoun<l• land to cuntinnc to supply the exi~ting pa per mills at their present and also at a substantially expanded rate of comumpt.ion, anti at the same time support an entirely new pulp and paper mill that might be established

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 7 somCJWhcre on the eastern sect ion of the Island. A third ,pulp and paper mill h as loug been a Ntwfo uuillan d ambition and tny Gove rnm ent , after a careful study of th e Roy,1 Cnmmis ­ ~iou·~ Reporl, arc cninp ktely con­ vince d that a thir<l mcl1 mil l is not o nly -po.s.,iblc Im t. impcia tively need er! ,Jn the implementatio n of a soun<l for­ est poli cy. 'J"his is -feasible even with­ o a t makin g any use ·whatever of tJ,e vast timber sta nds of La-braclor for the great.er part of the nt:x t hal f centu ry.

My Governme nt ha~ formulated a firm poJ;cy of .prodnci ng the es1 ablis h mcnt o f a thi rd pulp and ,p~i1cr mill in Newfn11ncll.rnd, a1ul a rc takiug al l the steps n ecessary 10 ln ing the m ill in to ex-islcnce at the ca rl:<·st ·pn,sib le m o ­ men t. From iww on a grel, pa rt of my GnYerm11e11t's cuc, gies will be dc­ vnt~d to tl1is end. In lea ,•ing you to you r deli beratio n~ I I.rust tlrnt l.li1·in e Provi,kn cc may guide your cou n~ch in the pTOmotion of the best in u:rests of Newfonn,!land. H is Hon "ur the \..icn tenant-Gov er­ nor then ldt Ll,e Assembl y Cham!Jer . Mr.

Speaker n :.mmed the Chair: H on. 1.. R. C.URT!-S (Attort1 e)" Gen­ eral) : M r. Spea ker , at this j uncture l woul d move tl1e f i l'Sl n ,ad ing o f a Ilill , ":\n Act F1nth er to Amencl the .Summary J u rL.cEction Act" : On moLion llill n,ad a f\irst time, orderc<l read a sewnd time on to­ morrow. H O'.'!. J. R . S \-:IAU ,W OOD (f>rime Mini $ter) : ){r. Speak er, iL is my sad duty to rem ind ll,e House that since we Ja.\t met the death of a former and very notab le member of the House has take n place. I refer, of course, to the death of Mr. K. M. Brown, O.Il .E. Mr.

Brown was, T think, one of the gfants of this H ouse in the second part of Lhe first half of this century. Uc was a gimt nol only in ,p h y.,ic;,J statu re- in that regard I suppose he was the tall est ~ml the ,1.outest ma11 that e\'c,r o ccupied a s,eat alt hough I rem ember tha t e1-lr. W. J. ,;,vood{ord too was a n t'no nuous m~ n in phy, iL-al stntc ture-1:rnt )fr. Dro wn was a man who was bi~ of hea rt and big of mind as well. His name wa.1 a honseliold wor d all along the northea st coa st o f thi s island and in,leed in ma ny other pa.rt., of th e isliind a., 1·1~11.

"Ken" Drown, or ' Kenzi e" Dro wn as he was know n affcctio naL: ly •by ~o man-y thou­ sands o( (Jnr fo hcrmi,n 011 the north­ east. coast trav cJlc,1 ou most parls of the coa.,t anrl was k1wwn .J,y sight to r.ens of lhrn1, a>1tl• of ou r p--·oplte. He was born a l Kin:;; Covi, on 3 Aug11st 1887, wh ich ma,J., him j mt abou t 68 years of age~. H e , ,·a, rhc .son of J ames an,!

Caro line Urown , a11d he v,as the gre at-g randrn n of Willi~IU Rrnw n who was el ected in lloua1·ls 1a ll ay to b~ a member of this H ouse in the first Hom e we ever had und er Reprc.senta­ tive Gov~rn'!ncnt in 1832. 'With his sm1, whn is at th is JHrscru mome nt represen ting I.he southern half o f his nat ive Donavi,lat Ray il makes thrcee n,e,ub crs o f this fam ily to ocr.upy an elected sea t ;n this Chamhcr . Mr. K. :V!. llrow n was ed u cated at King.; Cove and la ter co111plete<l hi, slud i~s at Vanrnm·c1· :-lav a] Acad emy in Rritb h Col11mliia .

H t ,;pen t sev­ eral yea,~ sail ing out " f Vannlm·er as a maL~ anti a~ a pilol and nJ.timatcly a.s m;ut cr o [ seven.I stea m, hips. H e retu rnc,I to :\'ew fo.:,ndlarn! in J 920 and settled in Grand Falls wh ere imm edia­ tely he 1bcc,1mc a very p romin .ent piib ­ lic figure. It was in Gra nds Falls that I person ally firs t met him, in abo ut the year 1924. T n I 923 he ent ered polit ics unde r the leadership of the Right Honou rable Sir Richa rd Squire s,

8 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS when he was clccLed to represent the Distric:L of Twilling~IP, with the larg­ est single majority polled by any can­ didate i11 bhat pa rticula1: general elec­ tion. He was re-dectcd for the same distrid again in 1924 a11 cl aga-in in 1928 and still again in 1952. ,Mr. Brown, al the Lime of his death, was senior diTector of the Fishermen's Union Trading ·Company oE Yort Union. He wa; elected ,in I 936 to be the Prcside!ll o[ the Fishermen'., Pro­ tective Union, a position which he held for the next twelve years until his resignation.

In 194fi he wa, elected by acclarnaLion ,by the District of Ilon· avista South to Tepresent it in the Katimrnl •r.mwcntion. From the mo­ ment he entered he was a towering f,igure resvect.ed 11,y every member and frared by some. IL was •while he was delivering a very strin~cnt speech, not more than a foot .from where I &it at this moment, ·that he was ~tricken with this terrible hemorhage which re­ moved him from all physical activity u n ti! the day of his death. 'In 194 7 r,e was made an officer 0£ the Most Excellent Order nE Lhc Bdtish Empire.

After his stroke, i11 this very Chamber, he reLired and livecl in retiTemcnt un­ til the day of his <lealh. Ken Drown was a man you could not ignore, you might disagr,ce with hirn-1I had my moments of disagree­ ment with him and he with me-But he always commanded res-pee!. He also always commanded love aud great affcct,ion. Ile was a 'big-hearted man, a manly man. H,~ was a real man. He was a hard hiller. He was a great politician.

The thing l liked aibou t him was that although he prnspercd, he had the br;, irrn and the ability to make him prosper, he never forgot the rnnkJi from which he came, aml he never cea,ed to be a genuine f:dcnd of the toiling 111a!;Scs of our country ,rncl then of OUT ·Province. I move, seconded by the Honournble Leader of the Oppositicm the follow­ ing motion: That Lhis House deiires to · record the expression of its deep regret at the clcath, since the, last ses­ sion of this Legislature, of Mr. K. M. Drown, O.D.E., former member of the House of Assemhly. MR. M. M. HOLLETT (Leader of the Oppositinn) : Mr.

Speaker, in rising to ,perform this sad duty I want, on behalE of the Opposition to join, wilh the Honouraible lhc Premier, in the feelings and sen tirnents which he has so ably cxprcssccl towards one Newfoundlander ><'hose sucl<len illness and subsequent death, I believe, mmt ha,•e made more effect possihly upon the future of this oountry than the demise of any other person that I know of. It is with a deep feeling of perwnal regard .for Ken IJrown that 1 feel th~t I am privileged to second this mot-ion of the Honourable the Premier's. T was pre.sent in the Hnusc on the occa.sion 1hnt Ken Drown was stTicken.

I am ,p1itc sure, Mr. Speaker, Lhat had it been Lhe will of the Al­ mighty to spare that able and straight­ forward character Ken Brcrwn would have left a clccp imprint. upon the his­ tory of this island and Province in which Jt is our ,privilege to live. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I second the motion 10 ably put hy the [lonoura-ble the Prt'mier. I am quite snre every member of this Ilousc -will join in forwarding this note of condolence to the relativei 0£ our .fOTmcr comrade, Ken "Brown. On motion rcsoluti<:m adopted. MR. Sl'F.AKE:R: Coµies of the Re­ solutiflu will •be sent to the next of kin.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 9 MR. SPEAKF.R : At .~:00 of the clock •lhis a:fternoon His Hononr the LicutenanL-Govcrnor opened the 5th Session of the 30th General Assembly at which lime His Honour delivered the Spe-ech fr()m the Throne, of which, for the purpose of accnracy II have ac­ quired a coµy which I shall now read to the House. Speech from the Thmne read by Clerk: M-R. ME;RCF.Il : ,Mr.

Speaker, I rise at this time to move t:hat a commit.tee he a•ppoin t.ed to <lr~ft an Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne which wa.s dclive11e<l by his Hononr the Lieutenant-Co1'ernor so gracio11sly in opening thh session of this Hon­ oura,!J le House. May 1 1 say, Mr.

Spe~ker, that in my opinion, this Speeuh from the Throne toi!ay is one of the mo., t important speeches from the ThT()nc ever de­ livered in the past one hundred -years, The only other speech which I would consider woul,l take any precedence over this Speech 10,la y is tr, e speech which was ddivcn,d to Lhe first Legis­ lature of Rcspon.Iiblc Covernmeut in N cwfound]ancl in 18.~i'i. It iR for t,b at sole t-cason, that is thal it was the first spe~ch delivered to a Legislalure under Responsible Government in 18.o.~ that il give it precedence over this ~peech today. J slia!l, Mr.

Spcakei-, have to make one comparison a~ I go along enlarging upon why I make that comparison beLw-cen the two speeches, one de\iv~red l,y the Lhen Govern­ ment of Ncwfouncllan,l in 1855 and one delivered 'by the Lieutenant-Gov­ ernor toda.y. In this speech ( think it wouli! be very interesting, Mr.

Speaker, to verr bricfl y mentiou some p<1ints which •were made in that speech of 185.:; just 'to show the comparison with today and what has ,been done down through the years. 'In the speech of the Newfoundland governor in 18.~.'> he referred to the gre,i t responsibility of the Legislature ;ind the Legislative Council to the puiblic of -~ewfound­ land. Bear in mind, Mr. Speaker, of course this was the ifirst Legislaturt nnd"r Responsi,lJle Government. He referred lo the great failnre of the prcviou., year in the seal fishery, the utter failure in that previous year.

He referred t<> the great poverty in New­ foundland at that time. He ,referred to the a•hsolute necessity for roads in '.\'ewfourHlland- and this i~ important - not only through the settkments around tlie coast of ,Newfoundland of tlrnt day of 1855 ·bnt the nttcr neces­ si l y of roa<ls even conn.,cting each .sd.tlcmerir. He rererrcd to the great necessity of expanctin){ the codfohery. He referred to a tr.,aty which during the year previous, in 18!>4, had been made !between the Cnited Stales of America and the provinces, as they were called then, of Canada.

And he aiked the Legislature of th.at day of 18!,5 to use ·its 1best endeavours to con­ firm that treaty so as to bring New­ frnmdlancl within the treaty hetween the United Stales and Cana,!~ in or• dcr to expand '"'"wfoundland's t.rade. Kow, Mr.

Sµcaker, I think it will lw seen Iro1n th at very brief survey of that Speech from the Throne in 1855 that the problems of Newfoundland were lhe same problems as this G<iv­ ernment has been having during the past six yea r.1. ln this year o( 1 !155 -I am very glad to twle from the S.peech £mm the Throne that the Government has •planner! to lay before this House plam in connect•ion with a proposed celehr~t.ion or mem<Jrial of thi., one hundrclh yea,- of Rcspou.~iblte Govern­ melll in :\"ew.fourulhmd. I think, Mr. Speaker, t•hat any .-:-overnment of this year of 19.i!i would be very lax in it5

10 HOU SE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS d uty towar ds the edu ca tion of the peo­ ple of Ncw.fou mlla ml if they did not uk this ·Legislatu re to vote mon eys £or pr<Jpcrly bringing to the aucntfo n not only of the adlJilts vf this country, but in particula r the ~r:hool ch ild ren of t his ,.ou nlr)', what R e,ponsi'll le Gove rn­ men t has mea nt and ·what progress has been matlc sinc e 1855.

I feel 11uitc sure tha t when t he Government ,brin!,IS it~ prop osals before this L egi~lature we will have the full co-o pcra tinn of the hono u rable members of I.he Opp osi­ tion. ln giviag the Go"crnment that co-opcra tiou I fed 11uite ~atisl'i cd ;,ho that Lltcy will have the co-operation of every rnemli cr uf the publi c o f Ncwfou n,llan d. l am \'Cl"}' glad also, Mr. Speah l, to note th at.

H is I lono ur in 1his Spc"ch from the Tltrono, rcfc ncd to o ur nei ghhour , even thru11,:h man)' mi le., away, rmr nd){ hb ou.r politic ally and historica lly, the great Island o f Jam air.a iu the Caribbean, aml ,I l!tn qui te sun, tha t thii H ouse •will wi,h that anything this Gov-ernm~nt ~ouJ.l do, or any Govc,.nmcnt for tlmL w atter, to fost er trd<.le relati ons with Lhc lshrnd of Jamaic a, a nd fo ,· tha t mau cr a ny o ther Islan,I in the Carib bean al'ea, will receive thte ~t1ppnn oE the lion­ onrab le mcrobn., ot the Opµosit ion. .'Hr. in the past ce11 tury we i11 ::\'ew­ fnn ndla n<l l,a vc gone from pra , Lically nothi ng b u t I he salt codfish.eTy to many d iveni ficcl indu str:cs , and par­ ticularl y among.st otH p Tescnt div.- rsi ­ [ i cd i nclustric.1 I cla,si[y the fres h froz­ en fish indust ry. 'i-Vc have even passe d front a colonfa I status to R e­ p Tescnta tive Governme nt, and the n to R c.sponsiblc Governm ent then to e very­ thing but legally a Dominio n Gove rn­ nwnt, then reverted back. to t:he lowly adm inis1 rat ion uuclcr the Depart m ent of Colonial Affai rs and then sudde nly to a p osition as a great Province of th~ Domin ion of Canada .

T hat , being V<'ry brief, is our poli tical hi~tory dur­ ing the ra5t o ne hu n <l retl years. Now, l mi<l, Mr. Spea ker, .. Sn,ldenl y to a gTeat Pro\'ince of lhc Jlominio n of Canada." Althou gh il •was su t.l<lcn in tlme it was not smhkn in thought. Again I co11sicler th i, shou ld reflect n po11 the last 011~ l111n,lred years of our histo ry.

A, I mentioned a moment ago, in 18:,.'i, the ,•ery, very first year of R esponsible Govern ment in New­ foundland, the g-011ernor, Jn his Speech fro m the 'J'hro ni,, asked the T.egisla ­ t1ne of Lhat <lay 1.0 comirle r very WU· Rcicnti on,ly the joini n)\' in a treaty with tJt.c l; nite,l Stales a111l the P rov,in~es o f Canada, whi t h h~ said in hi, Spct·ch, he rn1,siJcrr,I wa~ so wi:;CI)' con-firme d oy I hi, )(oven, mcu t., of the vario us Pr<1- v:n ce, of Can~ <la. He rnw Lhe idea of get ting in there into one u nifo rm out­ fit.

Xow teu year, later, I R6.'>, I find that in the S1,rech from the T hron e thot I.h e governo r came out then aJHI said th;lt the prn poslti ,m.~ made at the Queb ec Confe.rence woultl be laid hdorc th ~ L cgisla1111e of this Ifo use, to ask th i, Home to join in Confed ­ crHLion wilh the o ther P rovinces o f Can~,Ia . That was nine ty yr:ar,i ago . N ow ;" we all know, ~nd I d on't. need t.o say anyt hing 011 it, there were sev­ eral olhteT att empts iuadl', ,o that al- 1Jurngh in lY48 we rnddcn ly ju mpe<l i11 Lil Conf~tlrration i L was not a sud­ den thou ght.

It was a though t d e­ velo pini:: o ver on e h u utlre d yean , b u t it took. one inan . and "'" kn<}w wbo he was, to br.ing it inio dfect. Now \ fr. Sp~a ker, I note also that in the Spe.ec.h from the T hTonc His H ono ur referr ed to Cla use 29 of the Tenn~ of U nion. VveU, as we all know, sir, in 1949 whten th is country forma11y went into Confed era lion with Can ada there was au agri, cment. We know one clause of that agretmc nt has now

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 11 become known very familiarl y as Term 29. Unde r t-hat clause, as His Honou r rela tes, the Gove rnm ent of Canad a agre"d within eight years of Union to st,I np a Royal Commi ~ion to consider what furt her finan,:ial assistance sho uld he given to Newfoundland, Qt'.cause of the fact that it was very niffir n lt for any huru:in being at the tim-, of Confedera tion LO figure out ju5t what the Let-rTJs slloulr l be betwee n the twr• govern mcnts 1,ith regar d to finances.

So it is refatcd Lhat the New­ fou nd!ar ul GovCTnlllC!lt has already during the p;ist two y<',1rs harl its own Royal Com missi on work ing on N ew­ found ln11cl's -pwble m, ·'.\'ew[oun,lland's reason for considni ng thal .,he shoulrl be entiLled to furth er fina u cjal ;i~:;ist­ ance.

I am quite sure, sir, that that Commiss ion, as I hdicv c :T mentionecl in tl,is same :;pei,oh last Y"ar, whi ch l.1 comp osed <Jf some of the best pco­ p le w~ have in Newfo un,l!a nd for that parlicL1la1, tpurp os~, when that Royal Commission has <been appoi nted by ehe Canadian Government, will do well in relation to Newfonndkrnd. Now, ~fr.

Spe aker, in addition to our having progrts,c d in Newfonntl ­ lan<I in the past one hundn:d years from , as ·1 .said ,t,cfore, colonial stat.us tu a full partn ership in th" great Dorni 11ion of Canada. ~ncl l1Hving pro­ gressed from one ind11&try, a codfi sl,cry , to a salt 1:od( ish inclu.11ry, which was exp l-Oitecl by Lh~ West Coast ~:nglish Mncha111.,. to a fresh frozen ,:od [ishcry wh ich is now th e great est m p.plier to the g·reat markets of the U11ited St,ites of America. In addition to tha t great prog ress, we had many many other inclustrial pursuits which we have in Newfounclla nd today .

We have pro­ gressed ~ocially to a very great extent, Mr. Speaker. T hat ·is well esta•bli~hed in the Speech from the Throne today. Remember, Sir, His H onour referred tn mu nidp alitic,s through out the Pro­ vince esta·blis!Jed d,ning the past years. H~ said that many such were cstat ­ lished and tha t il is the hope ,if this G<ivernment tlH!t man y more will be esta1blished. Now I say that is a great ad-van,:e socially over th e past one hun dred year,, and perha.ps p<;lhically too, but l like to thln k of it socially.

I noticed in the Spee.:h fro m the Throne in l86:'i t.haL the gove rnor of lha t day, in read i11g th<? speech re­ lated that thi,re sl,onld be a greater degree of local conuol 01usidc the central governm ent. H L~ proposa l to t.he LegislaLure of tha t rlay was that. the co11trol should be ,exercised by the dis tricL, which bad then been carve,! ou t jn Ncwfonrul land, and """ll Lh~t these districts shonhl have taxation and c:any a certain burden of their own affairs. Now we have nnt done it hy districts .

Ru t we must r,;m,,m bcr that there has been a terri fi c: <lcveloprncnt iu ~cwfounr lland , particularly dnring the pa.st six years, in the csta-blishmen t of to-wnsliips aml regional councils , and a great increas e iu the idea of ,pP-oplc for ming more local govcr11ment s. Again tl,is is not a new thou ght , but it is a great progress from the new thought. esp~ci ally during ch~ past six years . On u,i~ point, ·11fr.

Speak«r , His Hon our referr ed lo the great con­ grega tion of peop le in the western par t o[ NewI(, 11 ndland , Ll,e Hu,n,bcr Riyer, and the lawns o·f (".orner .Utook, Curling, Hu mbcnnouLh , Corner Bronk Ea.st au<l Corn er Bmok W c.t and the fact Lha t Locy had rcccn tly voted to join wgether as 011e great city .. { am q uit" sure? that ~n hon ou rn-hle mt'.l'n· bers o( this H t1use, Mr. Speaker, will agree with me when ,I say that this H ouse wishes that great. city, what­ ever it m ay be calle d, the best of luc:k, and I a m sure that we will be per­ fectly sati sfied to give them every help

12 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY P ROCEEDINGS an d guidance we can in the future years. Mr. Spea ker, H is H onour sa·id that hi~ Min istcrs will in tl,is SCSl\lon of the Legisl ature lay hdorc ,the House mca­ sun:s ro ,further extend th e ever in ­ crco1siug policy of ho using . Thal. is wha t it has hccu since 1949, ever in­ creasin g. a year to }'Car increase . say, Mr, Sp"ak er, aga.in thinking of our one hundred yea rs of progre ss, that the Hcm sing which Is helng carried on ,in St.

John's and Gander and Corn er B rook and other places through the Province through Govc-rn­ m~nr a!l.,istance, not C,ovi,Tnmcnt dole, it all has tn 'be paid back, hu l by way of Covcrnmcnt assist,1nce whereby a man 1:iin acquire a home which he never could have had otherwise.

Th e pollcy carri ed on in housing <luring the past six years i., anoth er shini ng examp le of the progr ess of the people of Newfoundlan d in this their cen­ tenary yea r, ::-low, Sir, in audition to the develop­ men Ls " 'hich [ have rn<=ntiom:tl and m3'1ly more too numerou s to mcnlion, may I for a moment ,be per1ni ttt:tl to enumerat e a few of the industrial de­ velopments un clertake n by this Govern ­ men t during the past few years. And, Mr.

Speaker, as nott,d in the Speech from the Throne , chos~ lnd ns trlaJ en­ terpri ses mulert.a ken over thi, -past fow years will be Yigorou&ly pursued during this year. The firs t one m entio ne,l, 'f believe, was the touri~I in.clnslry: T -his Governmen t has, M r. .Speak.er, for the past two or thri,i, ycan made what l consitlcr to ·he a vigorous and carefo l sLndy of what, if :.my, dolla rs could be brought inlo thi.i countr y throngh dcvcloprnen L of the tot1ri,1t in­ <lmtry. On thi~ point, Mr, Speake r, I believe that all m ember~ of this Honse will agrei, •that Mr.

Vardy , a~ director, has done an exceeding ly good job. MR. SMALL WOOD : Hearl Hear t Milt . .MERCER : Now iL took two or three years 10 (ind ou t just w-hat ,ve had to o£fier touris ts if we enul<l get them iu here. A t l:he sa1ne tin1e we: had to think about what we h ad hcre to ind u~e IOU Tis ts to corne. It is no use ju.It talking about going arou nd our coa.stlinc set-Jug the rns tic coast au<l a few rocks, You get tha t in Nova Sootia and ~ ew Dnmswick and any place you go. So we ha<l tu think of some thing else aud ask o ursel ves what had we got. Now, •Mr.

Speaker, I suppose the Governmen t's a LL ilutl e in decidi ng they shou ld fully devc:fop the tourist in<lu ,try bcca1 1.1~ we have at leas t three items uf very im portafl'l game, as far a., tourists arc conccrn e,1, which they havi, not in the same de­ gree in the Un ited Statt'.~ nor in the res t of Canada, that is a, accc~silllc as ours.

We have o ur fairly easy ac­ cess to cadb ou, ou r fairly easy acces.s­ i:bllity 10 moo,w an!l our easy acces~i,bi ­ lity to salmon in <>Hr rivers. ' fhesc thr~e they have not gnr in lhc same way th.it we have here in any oth er Provin ce uf Canada nor in any sta te of the Unitcu Sota tcs. Now there is a poin t there, Mr.

Speaker, w hich I sho uJ<l like 10 brin g 10 the atte ntion of the Ho use at this time, that is, in the Speei:h from Wl.e Throne it wa~ 191.atccl that the Govcrn rnent considered i t a matter for private enti,rpri.~c. and ii w,1, Lo that en,! and pu1:pc,s~ that the Govcr Hmcn t ~ct. forth the p ro­ gra mme and adverti.sc<l ancl sai<l; If yon can show us au,\ pr<>vc to the ·rouris,t Board that you have a plHcc where tourists might he inrlucc d, and where t<;urists rnight enjoy th.,msclvcs, and whe~ it migh t 1:>e .profit a;hlc for them to go, and if you ran show ns in auditio n that you have ei-lher ca~h or

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 13 kind such as land or ec1uipment, fifty per cent of the cost to establish a proper service for a properly super­ vised tourist industry, then we will ]encl you the other fifty per cent and from you we will ta·ke back a fint mortgage with lntcr~st, to Lie repaid over a period of yearS---1Jrivate enter­ pri:;e-8ut like the fi:;h~ry devdopment scheme, like the mining uevclopment, like practically every other thing that you may wish to go into there appear., not to be in this C{)Untry the capital for private enterprise ,to usc in order to start an inch,stry.

So the Govern­ ment says, well, we •will help rou to get started and you can •pay us back. Now, •Mr. Speaker, wc mrnc to the point in the s.peech from the Throne where I.he -governm· refers to d1at ever important, that one hundred year long matter, •in fact that 156 years Jong im­ portant point and that particular cl e­ liat~hle point <1f la~t year, t-he fishery.

Ancl T ,woulcl lik" to make a particular point on just a [ew words macl e in the Speech from the Throne today which refers ,back to ,reillly a year ago, ancl which refers ,to the point I llllVe been ma•kin.g a II through my moti-011 today­ The Government in addition to pro­ gre.s~ing by pulling out money i& look­ ing to private individuals, is looking to private enterprise, lo help and cncom·­ agc private cnte,rprise to develop New­ foundland', natural rcsonrces, Last year, Mr.

Speaker, w·hcn moving this motion ·( ~aic! the DDllowing: "I feel th.at th.c greater joy to eminate from the Speech from the Throne toda')' is the fact thal the &pcech has today sen·ed notice 11po11 11& and the country at larg,e that the Government will this year and for years to come concen­ trate mnch of its time and money upon the fishing inclu,qtry. That notice in ef[ect stiltes that the greatest sin­ gle nocd in Newfoundland's economy is a plan to help the fishermen ~o earn a •better living. il'coplc gcneraUy will agree that it wa.i a very wise decision to a,ppoin t a commission to investigate.

H took two years arnl almost another year has elapsed si nee the report was rl'cdved, Dnring that time there has •been top-level d·iscussions !between the Federal and Provincial Government re the report of that committee. During that period of inv.cstiga•tion and dis­ cussion on the report, and Sir, again all will agree, nothing much could be <lone for the ,fishing inclustry-to do so would 'be working •in the dark-During that period the Government concen­ tralecl upon whal ha.< become known now as the new industries.

Now the Speech from the Throne intimates that the Government •will mnceu trate t•his year on the fishi11g indust,ry. 1 feel sure, Mr. Speaker, if the w,c<ll known <lriving force o1 this Goyernment ill concentrated on the fishing •industry like it has lbccn in the p3.3t O'Il ot-heer industric.1 •then with the co-op­ eration of the fishermen ancl the tracle then~ will 'be no doubt about its 8UC· ce.is~lrnt we should ancl must get the co-opera lion of all people in all phase.q o[ the industry. No.w, Mr.

Speaker, I notice that in speaking ef the conccnlraLed effort of the C-,vv<ernment, again th-is year, in co-operation with the Government oE Canada, the Speech from the Throne says "'We sincerely hope that pTivatc enterprise will emu la-te our efforts in this rc6perl." Then, Mr. Speaker, we come to the subject of agricu,Jr.u re. The report on 3gricnltnre referred to in the sp·eech is of great imporlanc:e, according to the ~peech, to the economy of Newfound­ land. It appear~ tha,t a forge number oE recommendations have heen made in that report, \i'hiclt wm be tabled in this House in the near future. Bnt

14 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS one special pa rt of t.he report was re­ fr.rred tri in the speeoh today, and that was that part of agriculture that has to do with mink rahing. Now, sir, I think it is public knm\•ledge again that during the past year the Govern­ menL has encouraged anrl has succeed­ er! in ihrlngin~· into N ewfournllan,I mink ranch owners from various parts particularly of Western Canada and I bdicve some from the United States and they have afrcady csta,b]ished m are establishing themselves in New­ roundlancl, lhmugh, again, oomc help from the Government, to he ,-epai,I by first mortgage.

So that within this yc,ir I 95,, one hundred years after our fir.st Re.~pon­ sihlP r.ovrm ment., wr, hav~ ~gain in­ troducer! another new phase or indus­ try into Newfoundland which was either never thrmght of or nothing ha,! evn heen done about it before. In the mining field the Spe,:ch re­ ferl\ lo the continued increase in min­ ing development, Lo lhe two or lhrce great pr-esent mining develupmenls which we have in Newfounrlfand, Buchans, Dell Island and St. Lawwncc, and al"() refers lo what may ,be in the future.

La~t year was started the greatest mining deve:lopment not only in the history o[ this country but mayibe the greatest in the history of the Western Hemisphere, namely, the Iron Ore C.ompany of Canada an<l the Canadian }"vt'lin Company. There is no doubt these two great C:(1mpanics, -their out­ put and their progress will contribute to New[oundland progress and culture. Thc&e are matters whicl1 undoubtedly, as far as these two companies arc con­ cerned, will ihe for Lhc fn lure discnss• ion in this House, and outside J: have no doubt.

Then there is Lhe very, very acth-e eJtplora tion work cluriug the past year of the Rrilish N"ewfound­ lanu Corpmation, That great corpor­ aUon ,h,L~ gun~ w great cXcp~<HHltue during the .past year to explore the pmsibilitics in forestry, mining and dectrirnl <levclopment 'both in New­ f(lunrllarnl ancl Labrador. There is one thing ahout iL, T\fr.

Speaker, if we get no results [rom all the money that is bcin!\" cxi,cudcd by these companies, this much ; they were envisaged, they wore induced, Lhey were 1brought. in here •by thi.1 Government, aud if thi,y cannot do an)' thing then nothing ever will be done here in that direc­ tion, I was very gla<l to sec also, ,;ir, that the Govcrnmelll is pursuing its efforts in relHLion Lo esta,hli~hing with the Canadi:,. n (; nvcrnm en t a national park. 1t seems frnm the Speech from the Thrnnc the only thing holding it up is what land and under what condi­ tions \anrl should be transferred to the G<ivcrnment of Canada for national parks.

There will be a n.ational park in N"wfoundlancl -whernver it may be estahlisl,e<l, in Ronavi.st,1 Ray ol' any­ where else, it will be of great adv;m­ tagc to the development of the ·tourist imlustry in this country, T under­ stand also that it wiH be an advantage in other ways in t•hat a,Jl moneys spent upon the parks that is, the :heautifi­ cati{)n, arrangement and clevclopment of the park is being spcn t. hy the Canadian Government and so ,locs not come [rorn inside Ncwfound\Jnd.

Then in addition I believe wha teveT part of the Trnns-'Canada Highway passes through these parks is umally wholly anrl .solely built hy the Fc<leral Gov­ ernment, so t.hat it is very much to the advantage of this criun.try to have a Can~dian l\'ational Park. 'I notice too in lhis y{:ar 1955, this centenary )'ear of Rc.,pons~hlc Govern­ ment in Newfouudlaucl, tlrn.L Lhe Gov-

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 15 ernmeut i., ·plann ing in collaho i-.llion wiL11 the F<:'.dcrnl Govern ment of Cana­ ,ta to do some work with regar d to cer tain air strips in Lhis country. I pt-esume, Mr. Spe-,1ker, th~ will be ., mall air strips used 1by small aero­ pla nes but certainl y tiler ,hm, ld ·be a grea t help and a gre at advantage to the peo ple, of Ne1v(oum.1Jand for inter-com­ munica tion between {owns.

The Covern mcn l too, accordin g to Lhe Speech from the T hrone , is thi s year, as I am gl~d to sec, co ntinuin g l<J 5pen d cousidcrablc ~ums of mon ey on the T rans-Canada Highway and also on ro~ds linking up scttlem cnls with the T rans-Cauada H ighway. Now, ~fr. Sp~akt:r, fornll y I oome to wh~t I consider another very impo r• tan t and far-rea ching developmen t, as proposed in th~ Speech fro m the Tl,rone, tha t is the propo!\al of a third pulp and pape r mill in Ncwfo undlaml. )1:r.

Speaker, I feel tlrnt if this Govem­ mcllt, having .iet up a Forestry Com­ mi:s:iion, .having obtained all e:t;per ts on tha t comm ission, havi ng giv-,n tho,e ex pens freedom to ha vc access to ex:­ pcrt s in vario us p hases of the for...,,.t1·y inclustry, having taken more than a year hy tha t commi s.~ion to inves ti• gat e and to vi.sit many many places, a.1 the Spi,ech from the Thro ne, I think, says; "lho u:iands'' and inter­ viewed hund reds of people interested in the forestry ; the Government hav­ ing conside,:ed their report then, I Cccl, Sir, it is now a mat ter of when, the Speech from lhe Throne says, that the Governmen t f eels that not only is it possible and feasible becaus e of the amount of t imllcr we have in this country, but that it is alliolutely im• peutive lh at the Gove r nment shoulc'! use ils energ ies towa rds the establish­ ment of a third pulp and paper mill.

And if this Governme nt mes its ener• gies as it has used them in tb.e p.1<~t. M:r. Spea ker, then there is no doubt hut thal a thir u paper mill will be a fact.

Now, Sir, may I say this in closfog; i l is rcuiarkab le progres~ we have made during the past o ne hunur cd ycai-11, and it is still more remarkable th at Lh ree of the greatest subs tantia l ancl labour- giving indust ries in New­ fo und land the-~e too have been in­ stituted und er Libera l Ad minis tTati on (! ) Gra nd Fall, in the year 1905 un­ der the Liheral Adminhtratio n of Sir Roher t llond and the second one about twenty years later under the Liberal Administra tion of Sir Rich ard Squ ires, Corner Brook and the third one under the Liberal Administration of the Pre mie r, Dr. J. R. Smallw ood. Mr.

Speaker , I move n ow that a C.o,umirt cc be appointed to draft an Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne wi th whic h His Honour the Lieutenant-G overno r was so gra­ ciously pleased to open th is session of Lhis Honourable Hou.1e. MR. CANNING; Mr. Speak er, I am very proucl this a(tern non to sec• ond the motion before the Ch air, and, Sir, [ a111 grat eful to h ave the op­ ponuni ty to make a few brief com­ men ts 10 certain phases of t.b.c message c:onlaincd in tl,at Speech from the Thro ne. Now, Sir, I a m at a dis­ ~dva ntage.

I have been preced ed by a law yer who has covered the speech pretty thorough ly. Lookin g over my notes as he w~nt along I found [ had to rnt out an awful lot t hat I had to say. The Speech from the Throne, Sir, as all previous speeches ~ince 191!), is divide d into two parts (

l) an account o[ stcwardshi p since we last met and (2) what we- intencl doing in the com­ ing mnnths or years. I feel , Sir, that

16 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS perhaps should this afternoon go hack over the past six years am.I give an a c:coun t of our ~k waHhhi p. In on.lcr to give justice to our accom­ plishments it would take me several hours or even day.s ~o that I find myscH in the poaition where I have Lo congest an awful lot of work into an account in a few minutes to the House. r am sorry, Sir, if I have to repeat something which ha8 been said here very often but I find it neces­ sary to do this to make my point and gc, back over Lhe history of Ncw­ founrlland. This year, Sir, is the centenary of Re,pornihlc Government.

I must still go back a hit further to our fj rst government of Fishing Admirals. That. 1<"aS a form of government wl1erc Lhe (irst fellow who sailed out from 1,:11gland to reach nur shores took charge for the year. That was fol­ lowed by a Rcprestcntativc Govern­ ment again appointed by the Crown and then in 18.'i.~ the Island was gi vcn Responsible Government. I thiuk, Sir, it. was a rcmarkahle age for tltis coun­ try whe11 the people or themselves were responsible for their fulure. They had to elect their representatives.

I am afraid Sir, down through the years, we who read the history ancl look hack over ot, sometimes were very critical of the govcrnmen t and perhaps we have not appreciated the [actor of our independence when the people of the country were free to vote in these people i{\ charge of our affairs. Unforlunatciy down through the age.~ they did not carry on a, well as we woultl have liked them to have d0t1e. ·At ·the same time I thiuk, Sir, we were probably one of the first countrie~ who had Responsible Gov­ ernmcut and who ha,l a say in our u;vn affairs.

I have just said, Sir, down through the years of Respon· sibltc Covcmment we did not make too mu ch of a job of it, anil. we found omselvcs in 1932 glad to go back to the Mother Country ancl the home government and have them take over. There wtcre prc,11.,ably excuse, for what let! to that situation, Sir, as we sec it Lorlay as the people were not so wel\-informetl as we artc, Hol'.'evcr, we came to that ,ad situation where we had to give up our imlepe11tlencc an<l were ruled hy the Crown.

V'/e went on for some years, Sir, and just at thtc last, in 1949, we came to the positlon where we had to dedde on joining with Canada-The Campaign was well known to everybody-it wa& not so nice-an unhealthy campaign­ liowever, Lo make a long .story short we bcc.1111c a pan c,[ Cauada, anti the I ,iberal Covcrnrnent went to the coun­ try and were voted in with a big majority. I think, Sir, we were very lucky al that time that Canada should have been unllcr a Liberal Govern­ meu L, a modern government, and if anybody iu this world needed it we u,rLaiuly <li,1 in Ncwfounclland. We harl been very backward.

North America had gurn: «hea,l and was go­ ing ahead, ,hoLh Canada and the United States, anrl we were very far behind. As T said, we were very htcky 'tlrnt the Liberal Government should have been in power when we became a pan o[ Cauada. Sir, when Lhis Government ,took ove1· remember very well, we came in first in 1919, we wen: the victor~ who J,atl won the election. There were a frw on the oppo~ite side of the House. On this side we had men from all rank, of lifr.

We had lawyers, we had t.e;ichers, we had co-operative work­ tcr.s, fishermen and w-hat-not, and we were faced with perhaps the grea-teRt proble111 that ev~r could face a gov­ emment. IIe_re we were - we had

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 17 gr>tten into Coufederntion-wc had llc­ corm, a part of Canada, with our r,tanclanl.s of living far helow the other provinces, far below the sland­ ar<ls of ~• nr th America, our country ncr,frcte,1 down through the years, all(] we had to start over anew. How­ ever, Sir, I feel we were able to ,lo the job, and like I sai,l ;it the be­ gi nrung, to give :n, account of our stewarrlship. I don't think we have anything Lo he a~hamed of in what we ·have done in the past few years.

Jf l were 10 corn pare, Sir, the N cw­ founclland o[ today, or my district of today, wiLh what it was in 1949 it would take me several hours to do jusLice In it. Ilut to be brief, Sir, yet to do some justice to the situation, I will take the depanm en ts formed by the Government when they first [O(}k officc-\Ve had quite a numher­ wc were laughed at at time~but to go down through tl,em-l'irst of all we harl the Department of Health and welfare as one department.

This dcparllnent was then divided into two departments; the Department of Pub­ lic Welfare antl the Department of Public Health. vVelfare-In this count1·y we did not know much ahouL it up umil Con­ fccleraLion, Our old age pensions, as everybody know.s, were very low and the oLher welfare benefit~ were un­ heard of. \\Te did not know anytl,ing of people of 6.5 getting a pcmion: mothers' allow·ance,; or the chihhens' :bonus-we knew nothing of it ~vhcn this C(}vernment was formed. The Honourable iche Premier chose as his MinisLer of Public Welfare, Hononr­ ahlt; Dc)ctor Pottle.

I don't think, Sir, i[ he were r.o search Canada from Vancouver to S't. John's he could ·have got ten any better person than Doctor Pottle tu take over Public Welfare. ;,,rn. SPEAKER : It is not proper to n1eu1ion an honoural,k member's na111e. MR. CA~'NING: I beg your par­ don, Mr. Speaker - The Honourable Miui.,t~r o[ \Vclfai-e. llc did a mar­ velous job, Sir, in tlrn t departmcm, ancl J believe even the ranks of Tus­ cany would cheer. Then, Sir, I go ou to the Depart­ ment of Health. \','hat was that situa­ tion in H>19?

The shorLage of hospital bcd.s, the shortage of doctors, .shortage of nurses, and hospital boats were practically unheard of. I think we had one. Our T.Il. rate \Vas high and 011 the whole we were in an aw­ ful ,i r.uation. Today we have several h<)Spilal boats on ouT coast. ·we have h11ilt more hospitals and nursing sta­ tions than any other government ever in ="'cwfonncllancl. llut we ·have one difficulty there. We are prepared to send out doctor.~ and nuues to our o,it.ports arorl unfortunately we cannot gc-t them to go.

Tn my rlistrict today, I. believe, we are lwo or three nurse! short, ancl it is not lhe government's fault. The Department of Health is prepared lo pay them and send them out hut they jmt. won't go. We fiud nur local nurses particularly refuse to go out in the outporti. We do every• 1.hing we can to remedy th.e situation but find ourselves al a dead encl as we just cannot get them. I am jmt talking briefly, Sir, on these depart­ ments and what we have done. It would certainly take much longer to show lheir achievements and what th.ey have done for our people.

That also applies to the Departrnc11t of Mines and Resources and the Department of Fisherie.s and Co-operatives. Again, at the beginning we did not know what we hatl in this country and, of course, we had tn get up investigations and

18 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS commission~ etc. And .this year we have set up a Commissi()n on Forestry to -investigate what we have in regard te> forestry, and I am glad to note in the ~pee ch from the Throne th at Lherc is a possibility of another pulp and paper mill. ,-ve have also made inve~tigations into minerals. We have also had a commission investigating the fi&hcry. Perhaps the people are a little bit im• patient at the progress being made.

At cite same time we must remember that we are very backward and that department has certainly had a dif• ficult Lask ahead of them. ll is a completely old-fashioned outfit ill this world and we have to bring it u p•tO­ date wi tti modern plants and fistiing boats: But, Sir; behind all rhooe cfforl.3 we have a leader in whom we trust very much; I feel it is my duty this after­ novn Lo guarantee the support of my district for him. I assure tiim that the old people in my district appre­ ~ia te his effort.~ since 1949. They were liviug on a pittance or just existing. Today they have forty dollars a month coming in.

Widows in my district, I am sure, if I were ·to ask them what I s·hould do this afternoon would ask me tu extend their thanks that they are well looked after. The children again- through the family allowance helping them tltrough thuir schooling and giving them ·bnnks, I am sure if I asked' -them this afteruorm what I should say in this House of Assembly they would• ask to extend to the Lead­ er;. the Premier;. their thanks.

And the people who in 1949 lived in hul.3 and had. no way of building a decent home; and for whom -in the past few years we·have built homes or r-epaired them, I am·. sure· they would ask me to thank hiirr. that: the'. leaks: are not com- ing clown on them. And the fi~her­ mcn if I were to a.~k them what I should say to the Premier this after­ noon I am snrc that they wonld say Lo me that they arc grateful that the department is doing everything it can to modern-ize the fishery and they are very grateful that they arc in&talling these fish plants etc.

Above all they would ask me to say to him ,that they are very grateful ~hat in case they should have a bad year and their re­ turns from t.he fishery should not mea­ sure up to sufficiently enable them to get ,through the winter that he would probably look after them as he has looked after them a couple of years ago. Now, Mr. Speaker, I amid go on and on fol' severnl hours in justice to wshat we h.ave done in the past few years since Confederation in my dis­ trict aud in ~he coun t1·y as a whole.

We have come a long way. l often wonder if we would stop to think or realize what was happening in the past few yeari-to go down to the De­ partmcn,t of Education or to the De­ partment of Health as I have outlined wha,t we have clone, hospital~. ships and what•not and pJ.anes and X-rays a.nd what-not. Then of cour.,e, Wel­ fare, mrut of which l have already covered. Natural Resourccs-'--When we took over we acutally did' not know what 1vc had.

We· knew that we hatl trees a ntl larul etc., but since we· have takl:n over we have had Royal Commissions on these things -to ,;ee where we stand, and the same thing applies to· fistier­ ies. We did' not know in 19{9 if we had codfish· swimming in Placentia Hay duriug the winter, but before 1951 we' knew that we had. Of couoe· last but not lea3t is the Department of Ecanomic nevel.opment hea.rn:d by an

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 19 al,Je and energetic cha racter, a man whc, knew Newfoundland and New­ foum lhrn<l Hist ory and I may say who knew wore of Newfoundl and politics perhaps Lhan any other living man l0· 1lay-l think he did . H e was like m ost of us, nt>t too old Lo r~a lizc how back- 1varcl we w f'rt' and he set out to p rove som ething Lha l any of us of ,the young­ er generation wan ted to prov e, that is, what we had.

In orher words wc had gone down thro ugh the years boa5ting that Nowfoun dl1md hatl fishery rcsonr ­ ccs, forc~Lry resources, mineral resour ­ ces.thi s thing and Lhat thing and all throug h ,the yeil TS nobocly ·had inve.1ti­ !!'atc<l, nobody had survey ed, and we did not know if wc t.licl have them or not. Now 1 came in here ln 1949 and I hoped that we did have. Of cou ne of all the thing, I wante d the Govern• men t to do was to go out and find out i( we ·had ~h(~e Lhings.

When ~he Departmen t of Economic Develop­ ment was form ed tha t was just the jnb they did by air surveys and land survi,ys, hydro -electric and watcrpower surveys. { thin k they pra cLic:illy covered all Lhe surveys. I think they arc to be compl eted this year with thi, rece nt one which my collea gue m ent ioned, on forestry, and of course the fi&hcry one. !\nyway now we know wha t we ,have. And the leader of tl-r:tt department has been hold enough to go al l out to see what we have and paid h tmdrc,L, of t.honsancls nf dollars, and now he is still bold enon gh to go ,on L and rap thc.,e resources.

So that, Sir, we are looking forward to the fiHnre with optim ism. We have done, I bhink , what the people of Newfound• land wan ted 1u to do. We have gone out and made $Urveys and investiga­ tions of onr min erals, onr forest ant.I our fi~heries. '\Ve have Eounrl out what there is· possibly there: Now we are :rrcpared to go ahead and make the b~st of our natu ral resom·ce.,. ln conclu .sion, Sir, I wnu,t to say, know my <listric-t fairly well. I have co1'c Led i,t at least on(e or twir.e dur­ ing the year. I guaranLee the Premkr that t.hc pe"p!c are behind him and ~hey appreciate everyt hi ng he has done.

Jf we have had one or two people who have fallen by the way­ side !hey do not blame the Hon,m r­ able the Premier, Sir , and they don't hlame this Government that some poor frllow snccumbed to hnman frail ty. I can as~urc him they allow for it, and Lht'y know ther e was among.st the first "Lwdvc" a J11d;is, aud so it will pro• bably go 011 all down through the years. In conclusion, Sir, in seconding this motion, I guarant ee the Premi er the mppr.•rt of my district and ics hest wishes for the fotnre. I thank yon, sirl J.\,fR. ROLLF.TT: Mr .

Speaker, ln rising to .~upport the motion so ably put b)' the m over an,! seconder I ,oust not ·be n mni n,Hul of you, sir, who have guesL! here thi., afternoon. I will on that account lllakc my_ re­ marks as bric[ as possibl e. Certainly it is an hono ur to 1have the dis tinction to reply tu the address on the Speech from tli e Thron e, and I cong ratulate the two honourab le mem­ bers op.positc. I woulrl like , sir, also to congratulat e Lhc Coven1ment on the fac t tl1at so many o f their numb er have again returned lo Ncw£onndlancl from Lhe ~unny south. \Ve oirly have lo look across the H onse, Mr.

Speaker, to see those who have -been in the sou th a111l tho5c wJ,o have not, as they ar.e brown and sun·burnt. Sometimes 1 wonder if they got theil'. snntan - to

20 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS hide the paleness which their past failures woul<l ordinarily induce. I hope that is nut the case. Any-way we are glad ,to sec them -back again. I never hcarrl of such a wandering tribe. They arc "liberal", sir, in evny sense of the word, They take a h<JJiday whenever they feel lik-c it, and go off to various places l ""'on't mention, hut thev come back again, thank goodness. Th~y are nearly all over there, sir, anrl I waut to congratulate the Govern• menl on having so many of them back. ,Now, Mr.

Speaker, .this is the place of course and a lovely opportunity, too, but unfortunately not Lhc time to slate the Government, crmscqucntly I have to renege on th Ls splendid upp()rt1mity - This is uot the timte, as ,1 said 1be• fore--I must congratulate the moveT of the motion, the honourable member for Port rle Grave on the keenness of mind which he displayed when he comp.are,l the Speech from the Throne 0 £ 1955 with that .,f 18.'i5, just one hundred Y""rs ago. ·1 a.~rcc with him that these a re ,probably tw·o of the most notable in all <Jur hun,lred yean of Rcspomi•ble Guv~mOUt',,1.-notable in that the,e {s ab,n,lutcly nothing what.mcvcr iu them-nothing whatso­ ever.

T must congratulate the honour­ ahle me111'hcr for h;,v ing the keenness of mind, 1 may say, t.o sec aud note the contents of 'both. 11.ither could have i,ecn delivered at eichcr time. The one we had this evoning, sir, could have been clelivcrcd very wd1 in 185·5 and ·be just as applicable lhcn as now. It ·"'Peak! far instance of prOli­ perity-What i~ it the speech sa-i<l? "The remarkaJble prosperity of re­ cent year.~ coutinu es tn bless our province and people.

So far from showing sign~ of slowing down, thiR pro,perity gives every evidence of still more growth." Surely the honoun,1,lc mem1Jer who moved the motion is 1wt. forgetting the fact th;it 1mlay we have twenty-one thousand ~ewfonnd,larnler.i looking for work - Prosperity- Ahhongh in this countrv there a.re 0nlv about a hun­ dred ;housand ptopl~ who look for work yet Lwenty-one thousand o[ these are t.ocla y uncmp Joyed. l fail to .see where there is any prosperity.

Fisheries: Much ,has been made of fis herie11. 'We have ten (ff fiftedn thousand fishermen- nolmdy seems to know ,how many-After five yeacs the Government is not able, and I doubt that auyhody is a1bJ.e to tdl us how many ,fohermen we have. Bu l II can tell you this much; We had 237 unmarkclcd quint.ah oE codfish of last years catch still in the country. I can tell you Hr.nil ,lid not take a codtail and Norway has n()t and Portugal so far ,has not taken any ·but -J •am hoping Lhc situatioH will ,be tiel'ter there. Does an)'hody tell me that is evidence o( pro.~perity?

There is somethi11g wrong·-so111ething wrong with me or the person who trie., LO tell me that. ;Now 11 have seen nothing whatsoeyer in this speech, s-i.r,-Oh yesl There was one thin~. ,1 looked arou111l, sir, the right Honse or in the right when the speech ~vas bein-g first rend· ered to .iee was I dreaming, was I iu country-Jlei:au,e almost from t1he start, the second yr,ar.agra,ph says: .,"Just as I\}.~5 is a. notable year in the constitutional history of New­ foundland, so it i~ also in the comti• tutinn o'[ the i1ridsh Mand-coiony of Jamaica which cdebrates this year its t!nee hundrcLh anniversary (Jf British colonial statu~.

The people of Jamaica arc now well a.,lva.nccd along the road to ,EuJ.1 prosperity." A whole half page iu the second paragraph-As ( said 'I was wondering

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 2 1 d id the person who -wrote tha t still thilr k he was in Jamaic a when be wrote i t. l wonder. [ t looks lo me -like it was. In the Name of God, wha t have we go t to do with J amai ca?

Dusinc.s pe<7ple have to ohe jum pin g back and forth fro m iNewfou n<lland to Jam aica all the time-Sencl a helicop ter to Don~vista and a p lane somewhere clsc to br ing in three or four so-c~lkd fi.,h m erchants and p ut them on a plane with the H onou rable th e Premier and fly tl1em off to Jamaica. ii SU'hmit, sir, -pi,rhap~ the H on0t1rable? the Pre­ mier wror.e Lhat wJ,en lie was tlown in Jam aica and $omehow or anoth er got m ixed up i11 his n ote,; and it went in the spi,ceh - unfurtuna re, b u t these things ,will happen C\'ery once in a whl! e.

No, sir, the re is nothing ·whats oever in this thing which I could develop. My honou raMe fri.,nd from l\l accntia. West i:ould go on for houn ~nd honrs with notes and every thin g else to ex­ plain i,t.

There is allso,Jut cly noth.ins­ in it. ·I kno w tl,at is som clhing usua lly said a-bnut a Speec h from the T hrone , bu t t h is is the only case where I can see the defin i t.-ion applies , It spoke of a pape r m ill- W ell cvery­ hody can speak of a Seventh Heaven and ralk of any thin g- We arc talkin g of this third paper m ill-I ncir!entall y, sir, we have n ot the repor t of rhis Co1mniS&ion on Forestry. 1 Lhink, Lhercfon,, I can say very little a'bou l it. Perhaps it will out.line ·wher e and why, and we can go on t o get -it.

Du t for two hono u rabl e gentlem en to get "'P ancl ·prai.~e the Liber al Government for •bringing ,Lite paper mill i nt-0 this cour:nry-I ,wonder where arc they or whith er tcn ,Hng, h ow J,ig]lsoarin g in t•hough t? Sir, inia gune, the like was not even known in the he.st days of Rome ancl Gl'(:ecc. HON. C. H . .BALLA.M (Mini ~Ler of Lauou r) : T h e ·Li,beral Gover nment brou ght in two -befo re. M)l. H OLLETT: ,I tlirl not hea r that al nil . I could give the honourable ~rnb cr an opportu nity to rep eat it. Oh ye,;J I hear d t hal in reference to other industries. MR. BALLAM : Where did they g el lhem ?

In the case of Corner Drook and Gran d Falls did the Governmen t not guarant ee Joaus? MR, "HOLLET T: W ho paid the guara, ntecs? W ho paid the loan., if Lh ey .fell through? "\-Vl,o serviced them? Is it the I.ib cra~ Government or the people of Ncwfnu ndla n<l? I say the p c-0pl~ of Newfou ndlancl brou ght in these indu stries . And if you ill these tim~s can 1,e lucky t,nou gh to engineer a thin! p,t<per rnill then give tbc than ks and credlt where it •hclo ng, to tbe peop le of this wuntry. M R. BALLA~ f : Drought in throngh Liberal Governmen ts. M R. S\>EAKF.R : Order. MR.

ROLLF.TT: If they w ant to argue may ·I stat'l on tlte new indust ­ r ies? •MR. HIGG[N S : No, not Lltis eve n­ ing. MR. H OLLETT : Du t, :l could ~lave a lovely time thi.s evening. l cou ld take S11,perior •Ru'!Jlbt'.r ,co mpa ny and Koch Shoes-b etter go,L a pair soon­ I coul<I take all the o thcr industries this CoYcrnmcn t, Sir, ·brought in. J hope the day will -10011 come when we on t·his 5idc of the House wiij have the opp ortuni r.y to congratu late them. T he re were severa l thi11gs men tioned - Of course th.C?re was a park, Sir Ric­ han! Squirt s Parle. I never heard of

22 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS Lhat before. I have ·heard of a park but not of Lhat. Hut l think it ls a grautl thing to call it after Sir Richartl Squires because ·he was an honuurnble gentleman. I would like Lo have the opportunity to go on, b nl, as l .,aid before, I mu~t not forgd Your Honour is the host to us Lli.is evening-So without further .r.tlo we on this side lend our sup port whole-heartedly to this motion to make a reply Lo the Speed, from the Tl,rone. MR. SMALLWOOD; Mr. Speaker, I should like first to offer a word of congntnlations to the honourable gcntlem~n who movet.! and seconded this motion.

For me il has always been a keen personal pleasure to hear speeches frorn either of these two hon­ ourable gentlemen. The first of them is a professional man, and with a very c:uol and incisive mincL Ile has on a number of occasions .in I.his Hou~c addressed himself lo some weighty mat­ ten, and he ·has always made a very notahlc mntribuLion. But the ·hcm­ Duraule gentleman who sccondecl the motion is uncler thto very great dis­ a,lvantage of having jusl come in to the city from ·his own con~tituency.

I once said a speech which he ,le­ Jivercd here was one <Jt lhc ha 1f dozen t{""d speeches l have ever heard in my life, in a Jifetlme listening to speeches in this Chamber. I am not aole conscientiously to otfcr my ·.honourable friend the same rnngratulatlons on the speech that he has just made. Mt'. Speaker, it would see,o to me that in this one h un dTeth anniversary year of Responsible Gov­ crnrne11 t it woult.! be a good parlia­ m cnt;i ry pr~ctice if the J.eat.!er of the Oppn,i~ion goL back to the anrieut pr,u:licc of making a speech on open­ ing day, and not arpologi,.ing for cloing so.

Frmn time immemorial, int.!eed from the ueginning of Re,sponsible Guvt::nuncnt in Ncwfoundlancl the practice has been invariably, nntil the last three of four years, for the Leader of Lhc Oppositicm to deliver a Hrin­ p;cnt and somewhat comprehensive speech running anywhere np to one­ half or threc-quarlcrs of an hour, in which he attacked the Government's policy as ou tlint::d in the ~ecch from the Throne. But I regret that the House has been tlcnied the pleasnre and the value o.£ that practice in these last few years.

I have no intention whatsoever of r~vicwing this Speech frolll the Throne in any deLail 1:>ut there arc one or 1 wo things. I think, which deserve a little co1nment from me. ln the first phicc I would like to say a word of very warm welcome to two gentlemen who are fJfesent as visit.ors in the Ch-amher this alte:rnuon. One of them i.s a Royal Gomrni,ssioner in connec­ tion with fori,stry, the other is a Royal Commi,~irmer in i,onncction with api;ri­ rnltme.

Sir, Newfoundland has been exlrnordin~TY lucky in terms of men, of the calii)er o( the men, she has been able to obtain as members of lhe.1e two great Royal Commissions. l believe that 1 %.Ci wi 11 be notable for many things an,l high up amongst thern will be the fact that we had the report o( the Royal Commission on Agdculturc and the report of the Royal Commission on Forestry.

I hc­ licve ~hat of all the Royal Commis­ sious we have ever had iu Xcwfcmnd­ lancl admittedly the one headed liy the Right Honournihle ·l.ord Anrnlree was the Krcatest and mo<,t far-reaching because it had simply stupent.!ous re­ .suits in cbanging the constitution of :\ ewfounclland and therefore changing the economy of 's'ewfournlland. But next only to that Royal Commission I believe, -these two whose report~ we

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 23 have had and will sho rtly have, who hav e worked for the last two year s in one case ancl t he last year in tb.e case of the other, thes e two Royal Cummis.~ions are seconcl only to the Amulrec Royal Co111mis,ion in thei r hnp ortan ce for Newfoundland. I vcn m re t.o say that thf" adop tion of the,., reporLs antl the carryi ng out of their recomm enda t ion bot h as to agri­ rnlcur e and forestry will institute an e~onomic revo lntion in Newfoundland, h~ginuing in 19,,5.

Experim ents will be •tried In Newfound-Janel this year in the fii,ld of agriculture bhat w1Il, if succi,ss!ul, have very far-reaching effect s upon our economy ancl there ­ fore n pcm our history . Th ank! LO the sup erb work of the Roya l C:nmmis­ sibn. on Agricultnr c and the Roya l Commission on Forestry. pro­ vided this Govemment conti nue, to have its usual energy, the n:port of tbc Roy al Commissfo n on Forestry will give us the great thir d paper mill for whi ch ~ewfound lantle rs have yearned for many yeari.

Sir , in 190~ the grea t paper mill was buil t at Grand Falls. l t w;is 11ot great then but lt has Ile­ come g reat since. It is a mill now prncluclng in Lhe neighbourhood of se\'oo hundri,d and fifty Lous a day, and that will shortly incrca ~e when they go inl o continu o11s procluction as Lhc:y will clo quit e shortly. At the time it was built it was a mere couple of hundr ed thou sand tons a year. I believe t.hc mill at Comer Brook open ed in 1923 was a mill h aving a c:apacity then of five ·hnndr ed tons a day. MR. BROWNE: It ope ned in 192:i. MR.

SMALLWOOD: I t was b~gun in 1923 and opened ,the Fall of 192.', with a capacity then of !;OIDC:thing appro aching five huu<lrc:d ton s o{ p aper a day. Tha t has since risen u ntil today the mill at Corner Brook is the greatest mill in this whole world , proclucing newspr in t and pulp in the amonnt o-[ twelv e hnnd red ,tons a day. T,he building of these twc, mills altered t.hc current of our N ewfonndland his­ tory. The bnilding of these two mills hatl the effect of almost p hysically picking N e\\•founclland np and alte r· ing its clirc:ction.

Ju Grand Falls you have toda y a magnif icent town of ~ix to seven thousan d peop le, lhoro nghly modern a11d a beautiful town and a prosperons town with high-class people in it, all p rosperou.i, all wdl-to-do, all well dress ed, all well ·honsed, all well cclu­ ca ted-a fine Lown-a Newfou ndland town that can take its place anywh ere in l•he great Commonwealt h of Xat• ions, tak-c it with prid•e.

Then this tow n fin ds itself the cen tre of a sys­ tem of town , almost as great, each of them, thcm~elves; as the town of \Vind• sor, the town of JI is hops Falls, the town of Botwood , t.he town of Badger, rhe Lown of Mill erLOwn , I.he town of Mille rtown Junction, the tow n of Terr a Nova-a whole system of towns based on one mill, base d on one in­ dustry brought to :-lewfoundl anr! by a Libcxal Government unde r t.lle lt,adcrsl,i p of the great Slr Robert Bond .

AL Corner Brook you •have t oday a uew city with a population of twenty t housand souls , a city !.hat could take it.~ place besi de the best t-hey h ave anywhere across our Canadian Nation, a ueau tiful ci-ty, within a setting the like of whkh docs not exis t elsew here <ln t'b.is II-sland uf Newfoundla nd, a beau tiful, magnificcnl city set amidst these great hi\ls on tha t beau tiful Bay of ls\au cL~. Corne r Brook is Lhe n ear t of that great induslry and i~ a\,o at t1,e same time the centre of a whole

24 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS system of town s tha t have grown up and have bceu bmught in to existence hy the mill, or whe re they have existed before they have been vastly impro ved and er1larged a~ a res ult of t.hat mill . There is Huu1be n nouth , Curling , rhe whole countryside running from Cor­ ner llrook dmvu to Mou nt :Moriah , al­ mosL one continuou s town, a ll pros­ perous, all well to do, all well dresse d, ;ill well fed, all well hou sed, all well educate d, fine peo ple, a cre,lit to 1\'ew­ foundl»u, l and a CTeclit to Canad a.

T heu you have a whole sy~tcm of towns that have :;,pruug up dire ctly arisi ng mH of that great newsprint incl11stry brought in hy a Libe ral Cov­ .. nuucnt under Lhc gre;,.t Sir R ich an! Squires. You have towns all over thi, \Vest Coast o f Ncwfo11ndlancl an d even as far cast as Indian Ilay in Ilona vista Ray in my o•w11 dist rid of BonavlsLa Norlh. Tha. t is what }'Oll get., when you gel this third mill, which my honourabl e uic rul Jias bee n pleased to dismiss St} airil y he1·e this afternoon.

He Jud d.i.~nissc<l, Sir, very airily the very rlrcam ;anrl aching h ope o f 1.he Ncwfouncll~11cl people who have worked in Corne r Brook .and i11 Grand Valls and in the dozen other to wns that have come into life as a resul t uf these two gl'ca<t mills. 1 "hes c thous ands n[ ~ewlounrllander s who ha.ve workecl in these towns ,md carnet! g-oocl money, ""'' these c,thcr 1.hou saruls who know nf 1,hc ex istencc o f these towm, who know wliat thl'l!e g-rcat mill s have <lone for N cwfo,.mtll and, ,.,n ovtr ;>!cwfouatl­ lanrl today every m an, woman a.YJ<l child a,:hcs and yearns for that third great paper mill somew-l1crc here on the 1:a.,tcrn side of our isla n<l hon,e to bal:rncc o ut our econ omy.

The greut newsprint ,indust ry of the west coast·. which has revo lutiouiz cd 1..Vc,t ­ "n, ~i,wfo undla nd and t .hal other great p aper tuill in the c.entrc of -the island at Gl"n.rt<l Falls which h as rc­ volut ion izecl Lhe ce,,tre leave., now on ly the great need, th e d eep gap in t.he eastern encl of our island for a great paper mill that will spur up and .,titn ulate develop men t of ru:w to wns a nc\ ucw system s of towns •here in Easte rn Ncwfou ndhnd. 'We will have the mill-We will have the mill- We wil l build that mill .

We will sec tha t i t is built. '\,Ve wrn not build it as a govern ment, hut we w·ill see that il i$ ·built. That mil-l is coming 01· my narue is not "Small ­ wood." T ha t 111iJI is coming· to New­ foun dl~nd-tha t mill i~ coming. I would ask this llo usc-,1 woul d ask Newfoundl a nd Lo indul ge in a menlal exercise aud t ha t 111,ental exercise h to try a nti imagine Newfoun d land to­ day iu 195;; with n o Grand F alls mill ever having been built and "l".ith no Corne r Brook mill ever havin g b<sen built.

Down to 1'11c encl of 1954 ,tha t is three months ago, the Grand fo.lJ..1 mitl hiatl cllst1ii b u tcd 1~, our people, our Newfouncl!Jarnl poople, in wage.~ a n<l salaries the sum of ~"209,<i74,000 in wage, and sala ries.

That same m ill in that same peri od of tirnc had mode many •purcha ,.,s of pro­ ducts of N ewfunn cllan d made in New­ founclland , th at is to say p u TC:hascs made 'by Jhcm in N ewfoundland amoun ted Lo $ 80,180,000, and in th;,.t same periocl that great mmpa ny pai(l out to the n, ilwa y in freigl, ts for Lhe hau lage of t heir newspri uL ,j,aper mid the haulage of lhcir puip ,wood a t1d othe r supplies the su.m of $12,600 ,000 in that whole period .

T hen h t m i~cel­ laneo us expenditu res of one kind and another t·hc total snn, ol .1,26,000,000 , 10 the i,r,d of Dcci-1pf>e1· 1954, m aking a gra nrl total nf S2i9.'.>!i1,269, for the period fro m the comme nc,cment of the ope-ratio n to the eu,l of che last }'Car.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 25 Wloeu you .mrn tel Corner Drook you find the re is no gre.it. clifferencc in the amount spent •by bbem obccat1.\C, al­ though t.hey st<Lrl.ecl so much lati,r tlrnu Gra nd 11alls, thi,y were from the ou r.5e1 quite a large mill and ckvelopi,<I ra pid­ ly into bi,m min g Lite g reat-est miH in the whole worl d. So !ha t since they hegan operatio ns down to th e end of 1954 the great BowaLcr mill in Corner Broo k had paid out. to Newfoun dland iu wages anct sa.Jarics ,5174,890,000 .

T hey "Pent in Jor:al purchases within N ewfoundlan d S31,l7 l,000- Thh,k of it: '.'i'cwfoundJ.an d vr.geta,blcs, Ne wfou nd ­ Janel po t.aloes, and turni,pi and cabba ge, fish both 5alt and fresh, Newfou11dlan d herring, Newfoun dland hay , Ne111- founclland produ cts of our 'factories, paint, r;onl ah"' and o th er pro<luc t~ of our Newfoundla nd fact ories. T hi,n in ra.i,lway freights , and tltt'~ railway frej~bt.s rcrnern l,er Mr.

Speaker , bene­ fi ttecl. some thousa nds o.f our N,.,..,. found .Jand people who make theiir liv­ ing working for tht: rni lway tliest: rail­ way freights totalled to L,be end of De­ ccm'be r 19ii4 were SI0,861-,000. Then in o lher exp ens es thr, company Im, ,Ii,­ tributed w Newfo undlan d amongs t the people of i\'cwfoundlan d Si5,970,- 000 making a t.otal for Howaters since 1923 or 1924 a total of S232,822,000. Then i'f we add Lhe LWo togeth er and we get. $5'12,000,000, over lialf a billio n dollars disr.ribn tt!d in N ewfou ndland .

Yet my honourable frii,n d secs nothin g in this empty Speech -fr.om the Tl1rone , secs nothing in ii. ll has thi., in co m­ mon, h~ say1<, with the Sueech In, m th e Throne of 18!i.~ tha t they were l)Olh cmf>ty, -ncit h-er of ,th em had anythin g - He ,lismh!e,l a third '['aper lllill, MR. H OLT,.ETT : What Lhird? MR. SMA-I.JL'WOOD: There is no rdt:rn1ce to it? MR . .UOL'LETT: Put it Lhet·e ancl then pu t it in the speec h. 'MR. SM.ALLWOOD: \Ve will put it there . We wull put it there. Now my hon oura•l>Jc .friend o-f Ja­ macia : Like my honourab le friend, J like to ta•k-c a holiday each year.

I assume he mke, a holiday each yeaT as I ,Io too. For 1.he la.st four yea rs I h;n-c taken a h<,liday but fm· the four yeau before that I did not. In thest: pa.st four year" T hi,v e gone once a year to Jamaiu t. The fi,-st year J. .spen t th ree days as the gut:St o{ Lord Deaver.b rook a l h fa home iu MmllCJto Bay.

The ,ec1md year .t spent a week in Jamaica and the third year, that is last year, J1anuary of laH yea r, •I spe nt two •weeks tlt,en, ,tnd this year I spent ,wo weeks or a :bit more. l spent Lltese two weeks out in the .sun on tho, heach e~, sun 1,,, thi ng, soa king .in the sunshin e anrl the vitamins so that I can come ·back spruce cno[.1,gh to .,tart a third paper mill or thre e '['aper mills if the re was a chance .for thcin .

An,! hct.ause for 11,ose past fon r years I have 'been visi t­ ing J amaica once a yca·r for my annnal holid a y, at my nwn expense, out of my sala ry, not pai d by govn nment expense - the Government pays m-y .'llllary of coursc--a ncl c,u t. of my salary I have p ,1icl my own expenses for my own holid ay. ,r sup pose there is no thing wrong ,with ,t•hat? MR. 'ROLLF. TT: Not a thi ng. MR. SMALVW OOD: Ar le.isl •I hope there is not, Nnw •I learne d a -lot in tho,e four years.

To begin wHh I vi<.it­ cd not only Jama-ica •but I went a~ far sou th virlu.al-! y as )'Oll can go and still be in the: Cadbb ean-1 went to the Dutch \-Vest 'lnclics, an<l II vl!ite,1 one or two ol•her parts of the Carilb'bean, enough to lear n that the Caribbea n is almos t a contin ent, t•hc dista nces within the Cari bl,ean arc quite aston i~hing. For exa mple, fro m the southern tip of Flmid a, a11<l Florid a is suppo sed to be

26 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS a paradise down south where people go in the winLCr to get some sun.shinr, . seven hundred miles south of that is Jamaica aurl a ,thousand miles wulh o[ th;,.t is Ilarbados am! then seventeen hundred miles in a straight line and still in the Cari·bhean, or the other way a line from Ilri ti~h Hondnras and British ,Gni,rna another seventeen or eighLe~n hundre,l miles, and withi11 these great distances are many British hlands, and bordering ·1hal great Carib• bean Sea arc nuny British Countries, and in a<ldi tion to the other British -Islands a nrl Rritish Conntries there are other islands, Santo Domingo, Cuba and Puerto Rico and others.

They are co1111tries that arc not Jlriti,h, Ilut if you la,ke them all, Bi-ilish and non­ British in that greal CHihl>ean you have a population of fifty million people. Fif.Ly rnHlion who c-Onld con, sume the entir~ procluclion o[ our Newfoundland salt. codfish, They have the appetites, they have the desire for that fish-.'io that the great Carib<l:>ca11 oould •bemine, as I see ·it, properly de, velopcd, properly promote,!, properly pushed, the grea tes-t ma-rket for salL cod.fish from :i,:,cwfunndland.

Nm~• sir, another thing J kame<l was this: A new British Dominion is about to ,be horn iu Lhe Caribbean, the J)ominion o[ the l\i,iHsh \Ve.st. Indies.

In the House of Commons a few weeb ago, at 1Vcstminist.er, the Colonial Sec. retary <1f 'Rritain said shortly a now llritish Dominiou woui<l be horn in the Caribbean, the Dominion of British \,Vest Indies. /J n the 1m1nth of January when I was in Jamica the "Gleaner", which is the Kingston daily newspaper, announced from day to day statements made in every part of the British Caribbean, and <every p<ilitical leader without exceptiou i:n the llrit-ish Carih• bean, has come out during January pa~t in favour o[ a Ilritish Federation, the Federation of the British West Indies .

Now, sir, here in Newfoundland­ "' ewfonndland is an isfand, the first llri tish Colony in the worlcl, in history -Ncwfmuullanrl-Hritain's most ancient and loyal colony, t•he fost o[ .Britain overseas. Herc 'beside ns a couple or three Lhousan<l miles straight south are these British Islands of the Carih­ hean.

A~ His llononr says in the Speech from the Thronc-c'lewfound­ lan<l anu these British Js,hmds have 1heen trarling with each other lunger than •have any other :parts of the \Vcstcm Hemisphere, the ol,le.st trade within the Western Hemisphere is the trade between N' cwfoundlancl an<l these West Indian Tslands. Very well, if they arc shortly to have a new Ilritish Dominion with iLs nwn tariffs, with it.~ own trade policy, and j,[ Newfound­ •land, now admittedly a Province of Canada-that is agrectl- MR. HOL'LETT: Thank Joel MR.

SMA·LLWOOD: U Ne,l'found• bml, now a •Province of Canada, has the ambition, if 1\-cwfoundlan<l has the imag-ination to see a great oppor­ tunity the-n '.'fowfoundland will see that opportunity. the opportunity to become the medium, the mean,, the channel through which Canacl;j, ;iU Cana<la, •wiJil trade with this Ilritish C:aribbean, ~he channel through which a \l the Caribbean i11du.m·ies will tra<le with Canada-Muit it he •N'ova Scotia? Mmt it he Qc,ehec? Must it be Ontario?

Might it not be Newfoundland enter· pri,e? .Might it not be the enterprise of :--l'ewfoundland merchants who have had the experience in trarling wit.h the cou n tri,es of the wor<ld more th an any of the merchants of t,hc Mainfand of Cana<la? Don't forget thal on \Vater Street you have good inerchanls more versed in foreign trade than any of

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 27 ~he merchants of the Miainland of Canada. We haw: mcrchants in New­ foundland who have tradccl with Spain and ,Portugal and ,llaly and Greece and Malta aud Brazil and all the and that is w.hy we arc here. That is the reason-that is why my honourable friends will stay there and th at is why we will stay here. T•he people of Newfoundland have taken their mea- Islands of the Caribbean.

That is sure and have taken outs. great i;xperience iu foreign trade, very gre,at experience. \Vhy, therefore, slwuld not that great coming move­ rnc11L in Lracle in Lhal great Caribbean where things are stirring, where de­ velopment is taking place very rapidly -my friend, Littlemore, the head of the Industrial Development Corpora­ tion of Jamica, a coloured man, a na­ tive of Jamirn, quite black, who went LO England and became an inclmtria­ list and who made millions of dollars for himself aud is now extremely wealthy-He went hack Lo .Jamica at the iuvilatiou of -his government to head up the Inclustrial Development Authority-As Mr.

Litllemore told me, in the last t.hrec years he and his cor­ poration of Crown companies acting for Lhe Government o[ Jamica have been able to bring over two hundred 110w industries and coinrnercial enter­ prises into the Island of Jamica. So in all the.se island,; with trade develop­ men r., these islands with a bTillant economic future, mrely Newfoundlancl has enough daring and conugh bold­ ness and 011ough imagination to go after lhal great opportunity. I hope rn y h onourablc friend can see more than that I have a .suntan.

I hope that is not all he can see-A British Fccleration in the Caribbean--A sun­ tan-A great new British Dominion being born and a great opportunity to dcvclo.p traclc between Newfound­ land and the Caribbean-Aud all he sees in that is that Smallwood has a suntan. M'R. HOLLETT: Is it true? MR, SMALLWOOD: Well, that is why my honourable friends are there MR. HOLLETT: When will you get the suit? MR. SMALL'\VOOD: As a result we will get the third paper mill. MR HOLLETT: Hear, hear, I hope you do. \1'R. SMALL\VOOD: At least my houoL1rable friend is not denouncing j t. MR. FOCWJJ.L: Not yet. MR.

S'MALLWOOD: My honour­ able friend denonuceci .llRINCO. La9t year they spent two h undrcd and fifl y thousand dollars just making the be­ ginning of a survey of bhc Grand Falls, Labrador, a project ~hat will take five hundred million dollars to develop, to develop the -hydro-electric power there, which BRINCO proposes to do, as much money as Grn.nd Falls a!J(] Corner llrook have paid out in :\"ewfoundland since 1905, 1:Ji,at is what il will take tc> develop t•he power -"Bunko"-Somc "Ilunko". :My ,hon­ ourable fricncl must admit it is pretty good-~orne "llunko". \Veil, Mr.

Speaker, when the debate properly begins we will bring out a great deal of information. T am quite s11Te my bonou ra ble friends opposite expect also to bring out a great deal of informal.ion. Dut the kind of in­ formation t.hcy have in mind and what we have in rnincl by bringing out in­ formation, I frar, arc broadly differ­ ent. llowcver, we will look forward with interest and gre.-lt eagerness to it. I have thi.s to say before I close. The Prime Minister of Canada has invited

28 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS the P rentier.s of all the ten provinces lo confer wit,h ·him an,l tihc- Govern­ ment of Canada on the 26th of April on lrL<>llers of the greatest concern to all Canada. l have ae<:epted the Prime Minister's invitation to allentl tlrnt conference, J propose to be ac­ companied at that co11fercnce l,y a nulll'her of my colleagues in the Cabi­ net. for ~hat reason, Mr. Speaker, il is our aml,ition as a Government to mnclude the work of this Scision of the House in time to euablc us to prorogue t,he House.

I am sure that my honourable friends listening will say, if I said dissolving, but I sai<l prorogue the House allout, say, the 24th of April, with our business done for th is year so far as the Legislature is concerned so that .the Ministers of the Crown ,rnay g'O to Ottawa with free n1inds to tackle the ponderous matters there.

For that reason we will meet more frequently than has been customary, '\Ve will meet to­ morrow and again on Friday. '\Ve du not, however, expe<ct t-hat my honour­ able friends opposite will Le ready before ~fonclay to proceed with the <lehate rm the Address in Reply to 1,hc Speech from the Throne. The speech clehate will go a,head as usual begin­ ning Monday next, which will give my honouraLle friends, I believe, am­ ple time in which to prepare. At least that has beeu the amount of time given in t:hc past. On tomorrow antl l'ritlay we woulcl hope to go straight ahead with the legislative business nf the House.

May I say that my honourable friends opposite will have all the time they want. All the')' have lo do i, ask for it and they will be given all the time they want on any matter of Lusincss coming before the House-all the time th•ey want they may have. We will meet daily and at night time, some nights, and towards the end of the session if t.here seems to be much Lnsincss outstancliilg it rnigl,t become necessary for the last two or three days to meet in the fore­ noon. All that has happened ,before. There is nothing new in ~hat.

But I ,lou't want my h011011rable friends for one moment to get the idea we are going to 1ry and rnsh them off their feet nor ,leny them all the time they want, nut they are going to have to work as wi, do. So, Mr. Speaker, •with these fc,v t'e• marks II remme my seat. MR. HOLLETT: Mr. Speaker, 'it is my privilege, l take it-I would like to inquiTe if we can go on with legis­ l~tion and other matters •before we start the debate 011 the Adel ress in Reply to the Speech from t·he Throne? MR. SMALLWOOD: We have al­ ready done it. MR.

SPEAKER : Yes, Motion: T'hat a Committee he ap­ poin Led lo draft an Addre.,s in Reply to the S'peech from ·the Throuc - Carricd- MR. Si:'Jo:AKER: The Commi,ttec wi 11 consist of the mover antl seconder of the motion and bhe junior .mem,ber for St. John's East. Presenting Petitions None. Presenting Reports of Standing and Select Co1illlli t tee, None. Giving Notice of Motion \.fR. SM AI.I.WOOD: Mr. Speaker, give not.ice t,hat I will ou tomDrrow ask lea vc to inlro<lucc a Bill "An Act Re.,peoing the Ffaheries Assistance 1,und", also

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 29 A Dill "An Act to Amend the In­ dustrial Development Loan Act". A Bill "An Act to Amend t,he Co­ operative Development Loan Act". MR. CURTIS: Mr. Speaker, I give noti cc I will on ·tomorrow ask leave lo ir, Lrocluce a Hill "An Act to Amend the Fire Prevention Act", and A .Rill "An Act Respecting t'he Con­ ditional Sale of Goods". A Bill "Au Act Respecting Bills of Sale and Chattel Mortgage~. A mu "An Act Respecting Peripctui• tic, anti Accumulations to Certain Funcls Established to Provide Pensiom or other benefits''. A Bill "Au Act to Amend the Will.s Act".

A Bill "An Act Respecting Bulk Sales''. A llill "An Act to Provide for the Protection of Justices an<l Other Pub­ lic Authoritief. HON. DR. H. L. POTTLE (Minister of Pul,lic V{e]fare): Mr. Speaker, I giv" n"tice I will on tomorrow ask leave to introduce a Bill "An Act to Amend ~he J)i~a.bletl Persons Act, 19.'>4". HON. J. R. CHALKER (Minister of Education): Mr. Speaker I give uoticc I will on tomorrow ask leave to in­ troduce a Bill "An Ac-t Further to Amen<! the F.dncation (Teacher's Pen­ sions) Act" and A Dill "An Act Further to Amend the Ncwfouucllaml Teaahers' Associa­ tion Act".

A Ilill "An Act to Amend the School Attendance Act", HON. G. J. POWER (Minister of Finance) : Mr. Speaker. I give notice I will on tomorrow ask leave to intro­ duce a Dill "An Art l;urther to Amend llie Rcveuuc -and Audit Act", and A llill "An Act Further to Amend the Social Security Assessment Acl", /I Dill "An Act Respecting the Com­ ing iulo Force 0£ lhe Civil Service Commission Act, 1953". A Bill "An Act Fur~her to Amend the Newfoundland Corporatiou Income Tax Act, 1949". Mr.

Speaker, I give notice I will on t01norro '" ask leave that the House resolve itself into a Committee of t'he \Vh"lc t() consiclt'r certain resolutions for the Granting of Supply to Her Majesty. MR, BALI.AM : Mr. Speaker, I give notice I will 011. tomorrow a.~k leave to imroducc a Dill "Au Act Further to /\mend the Apprenticeship Act". HON. M. P. MURRAY (Minister of Prnvincia I Affair.<) : Mr, Speaker, I give notice I will on tomorrow ask l~ave lo introduce a Dill "An Act Re­ specting the Preservation of Histvric Objects". IIUN. S. J. HEFFERTON (Minister of Municipal Affairs aud Supply) : Mr.

S'p.,aker, I give notice I will on tomor­ row ask leave to int.roducc a Rill "An Act to Amend the Local Government Act", also A nm "An Act to Amend the Urban anc! Rural Planuing Act", HON. F. W. ROWE .(Minister of Mine~ and Resources): Mr. Speaker, I wish to inform llhe House l'hat it is my intention on Monday next tn table lhe Report of the Royal Cnmrnission on Forestry. MR. W. J. BROWN: Mr. Speaker, on a question of privilege: We have

30 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS now heard notice of twcn ty-four Ili !ls including Supply. And the Premier tells u.1 we al'c going to take up all that for tomonow, all thc,e Bills, which will he introduced tomorrow and I•riday, and go aheacl. ~s it con­ ceiva,ble, Mr. Speaker, ~hat four mcm- 1,ers or five membcn; in the Opposi­ tion can -he in a position to deal wi t.h such a vast amount of legislation of such far-reachiug importance on sud1 shor.t notice as this? Do we have a .Speech from -the T,hrone which we ,ne nol allowed to debate nntil this legislation has been taken up? :MR.

SPEAKER: T,he honourable member is out of orclcr. MR. RRO'WNE: Mr. Speaker, may point 011t, if the practice: hcrc is as it is in the BriLfah House of Com­ mon.~ and in the Canadian Honse of Commons, lhe Speech from the Thl'llne must 1be disp0-secl of before any other lc,gi5Jation is dealt with. Then it fa not in orcler to deal with this legis• lation until the Speech from the Throne is disposed of. MR, SMi\T.T,WOOll: Mr. Speaker, if t.he honourable member wishes to­ morrow to proceed with the Address in Reply, we arc ready, It was just a courtesy to call it for Mt>11<lay next rat.her than tomonow.

H he insists on tomorrow we are quite happy, in­ deed we would rather ha,•e it, bnt out of deference to the honouTable gentle­ mL'11 we decided Lo leave it until Monday. MR. SPEAKER: The whole thing is out of order. \\'e cannot refrain from cloin'1; that whir:h we are not al­ ready doing-It is purely hypol'hetical -We are not already doing it. I can­ not rule on a question not yet a-ris­ ing. What the Hononrab\e the Pre­ mier may say has· nothing what.ioever lo do with ihe procedure.

Obviously i-he most that could l>e clone to any of thcsF nills tomorrow is to give them fir.n reading, which is a mere matter of form, Givfag Notice of QneBLions MR. HOLLETT: i\fr, Speaker, I hacl CJUi t.e a lot of q ucstions, 'but, a, I said before, I don't think I should Tead them all now. I shall just read one . To ask the Honnurahle the Miuis- 1e1· of Finance t.o lay on the table of th~ House the following information: (

a) CerLificd cr,pies of Minutes of reports ancl 1·ccc.>m menclations of the T,-e~sury Board in ac­ cmdau~e wil h

Section 37 (2) of the Revenue and Auclit Act. (

b) A copy of thtc Public Accounts. (

c) An itemized account showing arnounts paid on account of Travelling Expen.,es hy Depart­ ments since, April 1st, 1!)~1. Al.so .slwwin~- aJ1h.Ju11Ls charged -to s,1spc1l6c Account a.~ of 31/3/H: MR. DROW7'.F.: Mr. Speaker, I give notice I wiJl on tomorrow ask the Honourable lhe Att()rncy General to lay on the table of the Hoa,e the Report of the Royal Canaclian M ountecl Police, on their investigations into the alleged irregnlaritics in the purchase of Conveyors for the New­ foundland llanlwoods Ltd. MR. SPF.AK.ER: I have to an­ nounce; Mr.

Philip Forsey, member of rhe House representing the District of Dnrin, resigne,l in DecembeJ and there­ .fore the seat fur Burin District is uow vacant. MR. SMALLWOOD: Mr. Speaker, move the House as its rising do arl·

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDJNGS '31 journ until tomorrow, Thursday, March 21, at 3:00 of the clock. On motion the House adjourned un­ til tomorrow, Thursrlay, March 24, at 3:00 p.m. THURSDAY, March 24, 1955 The House met at three of the clock in the afLernoon, pursuant to a<ljourn­ tnent. some time Ja,ter there was an outcry on the pare of the pulilic against the extent of the increases •being r.hargc<l. Rcpoi-ts reached the government and letters appeared in the paµcrs indicat­ ing Iha t rates had •been increa~ed any­ where from 50% to 40%.

A! the request of the Premier I un­ dertook 10 look into the increa.ses granLerl, and the examinations I made disclosed the following facts: I. No increa.ses had ·been made in HON. L. R. CUR TIS (Attorney industrial rates. General): Mr. Speaker-I woulcl like al this time to make a statement with respect to the rates now being chargecl by the United Towns Electric Com­ pany on the Avalon Peninsula. On the 23rd day of March, 1953, the 1Jnilecl Towns Electric Co. Ltd. made applicatiou to the Public Utilities Commission fol' certaiu increases in its rate structure.

The Public Utilities Commission ad• vertiscd and held hearings with res.pert to this applicatiou, and hefore com­ ing- to any decision had the benefit of the service! of an electrical engineer from Ontario and an independent firm of auditors. Ultimately, having satisfied itself tha.t an incl"ease in rates was justified, an order was made on the 24th day of September, 1954, authorizing I.he Company to bring into force the in­ crease requested. I would remiud the House, Mr.

Speaker, that the Public Utilities Ce>mmission is an independent Cr>m• mis1i,m· set up by the G.ovetnmcnt but in no respect uncler its· control. It is, o[ course, reiiponsiblc to the Lcgis• lature. The new· rates authorized· became effective on October l5t, 1954; and 2, A substantial increase had been made -in domestic rates -which could not, however, ·possibly amount to an increase of 100%. 3. Commerr.i~J rates .had been in­ creased by 200% and in so1ne cases, by reason of the institution of a de­ mand charge, much more.

This latter increase seemed so dras­ tic that I at once su11gesled' to llhe Chairman of the Commission that he should negotiate; and to the Managing Director of the Company, that he ~hou)d agree to an immediate redur­ t.ic,n of one, cent per kilowatt ,h()ur and this was done.

In view of the fact that certain domes tic cus lorn exs had reportccl an in­ crease exreeding 100%, an increase that contd uot •he justified by ~he rates ap­ pTovccl, I sui:;gestcd to the r,rblicUtili­ tics Commission that it hold hearing11 in certain key towns on the Avalon Peninsula in order to see the bills in <1nestion and ascertain lhe facts. The commission will probably conclude this inYesLig.ition on Mouday ne,c;t when it will doubtless report its [iuding11 to the Governmeut. Haviug now examined more care­ fully the new rate structure approved by the Commission and now· being

32 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS applie ,1 hy lh'C Company, I am ,far, frnm salisi fied rbat increas es to the exLcnt approved can he jus tified, and I am consequcnt.ly ill slruct ing the Commis­ sion I.hat the >1·hole ,,ucstion of rates now being charp;ed hy lhe Company sho ulcl be re-examined, particula rly in th e lighl of its r('ceipts since Octo­ ber l sl HJH; and lhat this re-cx:amina­ lion shoul ,l start imme diately. r h ave no person al doub t but t-hat t,his re­ exam ination should result in a very s1r!1~Lanti al reduction in the rates pn:· sen tly bei ng charged . MR.

ROLL F.TT (Leader of t11e Op· positio n) : Mr. Speak er, if T may, c:oul,l I ask the honoun1hle Minist er­ does 1,ha l aprply, that re-examination apply to domesti c rates? MR. CUR TIS : All rate,. MR. HOLJ,F. T T: t.he Minister made some it not •being a ·hundred know of ca5es where .iee-Recause refere ncc,i to per cent. I it actually au1onnterl to a hunclr,,,I ,per c:ent in· crca.1e, in my own distTict. in St. Joh n',i '\'lest, and not ~ st.ones-Lhrow frlllll the Sout.hsid e 'R<>,1<! w.here ·householders arc pa.yin~ prar.Lically twice as much ;is they pal ,1 before.

As a m aller of foci. a petit.io u was broug'h t to me in connee1.-ion with that increase. HON. J. R. SMALLWOOll (Prime. l\fin i,ter) : M r. Speaku, T don't think it is deb .i tabk. :\{R . .SPK.<\.KER : T ile hono,mihlc membe r askc,l a quC$tion. MR. I-IULLl '.'IT : Mr. Speaker, I th iuk I ha,•e th e right to m ake a few remarks. MR. SPEAT{F.R : A mini~terial ~tal emcnt i~ not deba table. MR. 8MALLW00D : Mr. Speaker, the h ouourabl e genll cman i$ certaiuly debati ng it. MR. SPEA KER: At tloe moment it has re.ichcd the po'int of deba Le.

It ,~-g~ n hy t.he asking of a qnes tion. :\fll. 110 1.T.ETT: I may ask a ques­ lfon, Sir? And the answer is t.hat an investigati on will b e made into the iatcs being charged at the pres ent 1i11,e. I helieve r.hat is correct. T h al 'being so, wrn t.hi., House ,be informe d? Before the lluu se closes? M H.. CUR TIS : I hop~ .10. l\-fR. RROv\TNE : Mr. Spe<1ker, may I ask t,wo questions? (

I) Is t.he Minister going to give the Opp osi tion copi es of the sta tcment j u~r ITiadl'? MR. CU R.TIS : I am going to give it tc, tlie p ress. M R. BROWNF.: And , Mr. Spe aker, wou ld like to ask the honourable <he Att orney Ccncra J woul d he table :i rnr,y of the ord er of the Pub lie lJ tili ­ ries C.mnmissio n iu whic h the new rates were aulhorizcd? Will the hon­ ourable the Attorn ey Gene, al do that tomonow? MR. CURT(8: Yes. Prc.1cntlng l'et itions : 110:\". J. R. Cl !AT.KER (Minis t.et of F.clncation): •M·r.

Speake r , .r agreed to µresent a petition from th,:, re.ridents of Butlerville, Sheant t>wn, elc. which reads as foll owll : w~. the unclersignetl cithen.•, request your help 10 get elect ricity , extended ftom Sltcars tow n lo the above men­ tioned places. We know tha t you are well ~c,,uai nted with this area and will h e only too glad to present our case to the prop er author ities. A~ you kno-w elcc trici 1·.y is no long er a J.nxu t y in these daJs, it is a vital necessity, es-pecially where - tlim:e is a

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 33 growing popul aLion such as ours. We arc mOSl anxious to have this exte u­ sion which will be able to pro,•i <lc more adc11 uate light and ()thcr facili­ ties (or home.~. sdio ols etc. Further­ more our ,hop kcepern are unable to ha"e any refr igerat ion facililies and pi,ople have 10 go elsewhere for food, autl it h impossi·ble for telephone facili ­ ties, which need le.ls t.o say h a very greal draw-back in cases of em ergency. ·1·0 give some i,lea ol. the popu laLion we have according to th e voter's list 136 voters .

We lruU you will give this requ t:St your part.icular attenrio n. Mr. Speak.-:r, I visit this area quite often, and. the e!ectri ci ty ·is cut o{E j 11st a., though it were cut. with an axe from one side of the ,road to the oth e,r. On one side you can see ~he houses lit up rwith electricity ancJ the u ex:t house for the sake of ·po.,sibly ~wen ty poles, i~ using the ord~n ary oil lamps. I atn pa'l"licularly interest.eel, sir, in the slte>pkeepers who asked me to p1es.1 thei-r '!)<>mt. in this peti'l-ion in the matter of refrigeration, us they arc losi ng a lo.t of money in their stor ~.

I ask that ~his ,petition -be Jai<l on the table of 111 e H ouse and .-eferr cd to the departm ent concerne d. On motion leave granted--4'ctltio n tabled. MR. SMALLWOOD: ,}.f.r. Speaker, I hav e great pleasure in supporti ng the -prayer of thh ,petitio n from t·hc area concerned , i.e. Shearstown, an<l b eyond it Butlerville, which is an area well known to me. 'I know it is a very t.hriv,ing a-rca with vei-y industri ous energetic pt:0ple.

Tt mus l be very mad<lenin g to lhe within a guni'lhot a~ some o( them are aud oomc of fhem several gnnshots -of electricity , inde.-d to be able to look out the vall ey and sec rhe f.ights -whid1 come in so far a11d then stop . .) would agree eu.­ tircly that the u t.ilit)' compa ny should 'be ,isked Lo extend the ,Jighti; in there.

The corupany, II und(.'r.~tand, l-ras recently changed I,ands, at least the ownership of the company has recent ly chan ged hands, My uut!ers tandi ng is that a well-lumwa fovesr .men t house in Montreal 11'ho an, either -the owncr.i of, or are closely associ ated with, the Power Corp ora tion of Cana, la bought ,heavily into -the compa ny, ant.I th.at the remaind er of the titl e is veste, l in a number <if proin ine11t merchan ts alon g Water Street, anti poss ibly some other sharehol der.~ as well. ·l un<le-r.stand al1(1 that ·it ii the intent ion of that com pany, L11rough its new ownen., to do .some ex-tension OIi' thci·r faci.J.ities, and tlrnt they are p repared to put con ­ si,Ierable m ms of -new cap ita!! into the oompauy.

T Hrongly hope that t.hory wiH extend their ,Jines along the ro~d. Only during t he pas t summer l was stopped on bhe Hodg c,vator Lin c !by a group of peop~e our n•ght as T •went the.re, asking if I wou ld crnlt'.avo ur to get the lights ex:tcuded in thei r ·•1ay. The lights now I bcllrve are ·prnctfr.ally in to Mr.

Ce01"Rr •Mackir1so1i's Farm and .possibly a wee hit further along t he f'Oad, •but 'beyon d that 1win1 quite a number o-f otl,n poople live, and they too arc anxious to have electric light.,. 'I hop e that Lhis p t'.tition and t he needs of the peop le referre d Lo and tbe pcoi,Ie in other ,parts wiH recdvc early con~ideration. MR. HOI ;LETT: Mr. Spe.aker, .I rise to .~up port that petition too. 1 arn <Jll i.te aware of the inference., - 'ln Burin ·we ran Ioo'k aero&.~ t.he har­ bour 11nd sec electric lighL~ on one ~i<le, and on the oth er side on which I was living we had no Hghls. [ t

34 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS quite ccr.tainl y -can give one an inferior­ ity complex-per hap.~ that is '!',<hat I have 'l,eeu >tlHering 'from all my life and rm Lhat accoun t- It certa.inly does give JOU one-,1 a.u:. !.he go-vcrnrn cm to make su re when they do get the ligh ts there the peop le won't suddenly find the peopl e on one ~i<le of the ro<l<l ,have ·to pay $1 for 10 k:ilowat~ wh ile the -people on the other side h ave to pay S2 ror the same •number of kilo­ watt houn;-T hat is the situation 'I<'\:: have j ust up here on the Southsirle Road. HON. MR .

MURRAY (Mini&ter of l'mvincial Affa.i rs) : I think it is -~2. for 20 kilowatt hom·s . MR. HOLLETT: What is the differen ce anyhotly is gviug r.o burn twen ty. I can 'h1:ing yon fact s and £igurcs, Mr. Speaker, to show 'IJh.at a good many pcop k on th,-, Bfackh eacl Road arc paying practicalty donhle what. they pair! befo re ,1hc rates were r .. iscd , an,l 'I am only t:xlcndmg the opini on that thest: peopl e fro m whom the peti~ion comes when they get the lights, Lhe p=plc on <,nc sid e of the mad won't be -pemtlfa ell in order that the other.~ may have tJi,,,ir Jilghts.

That is exactly :1vhat ha, happt:ned here-W e will come 'to that b tcr in the Throne !>pcech. On motio11 petitio n -rcceivccl for reference, -to the dopartmcnt COI1cem­ ed. MR. SPl~AKER : llcfore strangcTII were a(!mittcd I gave a message to the T.egislalive Assen,hly and I am em­ powered by the House to make that message public, as it is felt 1hat i t would be or general inte rest. It is rhis: A £cw months ago I had the plea­ sure, with others , of visiting t•he Sul­ tan of Zanzih ~r.

H,-, has been a reigning monarch ~lnce 191 O ,a•nd is now 7!i years vlcl H e was very ~uterest ­ ed in ner)"bo dy he met, and agk,,.-J me to ,:onvcy to the Lieu rcnaat-GO\' Cmor and -the Government and a'll the mem­ bers of the -Lcg·isla'livc A55ernbly of Newfonndfaml, a.1 ,h e said: "that otlie:r 11ncient Island, Newfo undland," his wishes. Applaus e. l'reseoti.ng Reports o{ Si.anding arid Select (:ommittc,:, HON. C. POWER (Mini.,tcr of l•'inance ): ,M.r. Spea•kcr, I have the l:'uMic Accounts of the Province of Newfo undl aucl for the year ending \fa l'Ch '.Hst, I !)1,4.

I ask the leave of lhc 11 ousc to lay it on the table of tile H ous e in order t hat they may be printed. MR. I. MERCER: M r. Sp eaker, a~ chairma n of Lhe com milLec selecte cl l,y yr,u, Sir, to draft an address in reply 10 the Spee ch from thr, Throne I 1111w present tha t add ress to the J lou.'!c for its app:rova 1. To H is Hon onr the Lieutenant­ Covc rnor, Sir Leonard Cedl Outer • bridge, Knigh t ,l\ache lor, C.B:E .. D.S.O.

May ii plc aie you r Honour. ·we, Lhc Comm ons of N ewfoundl and, in Lcgi$h1tivc Se,~ion a~sembled, hcg to thank Your H onour for t.he graciou s spe ech wb.ich Your Honou r has ad­ clre.s,cd to this Honse. Sgd. -Isaac '~·lerce-r Frank Fogwill P. J. Canning A.ssemhly Room , March 24-lh., 1955. MR.. &PEAKER: Mot.inn is, repor-t bt: n:ceil'erl and adopted.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 35 ~!R.

S:\iAT.l.WOOH: Mr. 1:.'pcakt:r, do nol rise to addres s myself to tl,e motic,n bul only for the pnrpose of saying that while we arc prep arecl and per haps tltc honour ahle gcntle­ mten opposi te a re prepared to proccccl with t.hc <lehat.c, it was uot ou,· in• ten tion to prncc e<l but ra rhcr to wait until ·Monday and ,J,,;gin Ll,e dcfoi tc thcu and in the mea ntim e to proceed with the •busin ess on th e onl er paper and e:s1'ecially t-0 go into Co1Illnill1'e on Supp ly so that. we migh t obtain interim supp ly or parth1l supply before the end of the fin ancial year and pe111ling the tin1e when the full sup­ ply for the cmning year will he oroul$h t down and rteq uest:ed in r.he House.

J am awa, e of the fac t ~hat it is cust omary, it. is regular parliamen­ tary prac tke not 1.0 deail ·with supply, 11ot to go into comu, ir.tcc of the whole on supply uutil a.fter the ad­ tlre .ss in reply has been ~doptc<l by L•he Hou.se, that i~ to say, until aft er the debate on the ad-dress in ri,ply an,1 after that debate has concluded . llnt Your Honour will know far more a-bout tha t ihan I do.

Jf how­ ever the Home, both sides, i< agree­ able lo have u , go int,, Com rni ttee of Supply for th e purpo~c of getting in­ terim suppl) ', fol' Her M ajesty for the wrn ing year ,l,cforc Lhat year anJves, ~hen we will do so, and ddcr t.h.c delrn t<:: 011 the add re,, in reply . 'l'hcrcfon : I rl8e (or L·he purpose o( moving ,that this debate <lo stand de­ ferred, or lh at. this n10Lion for the adop tion of the addrc.'i.< in ,cpty ,lo staml deferred . '.IOC ROLLF.TT : '.l{r . Speaker, we on this side of the Uouse arc perfoc t­ ly agreca 1ble to hav e it. stand aside until M"nday.

On m otion dcbaLe on this 1uotion defe n ed. (~iving Nolice of Motion :\-tR. C.HALK l•:1-l: Mr. Speaker , give notice l will 011 tomorr ow ask tense to inrro, luce a Ilill "An Act to Amend the 1':ducation (1 'eacl1er Train ­ ing) Act." MR. CURT IS: Mr. Speak er, I give nolicc I will 011 tomo rrow ask leave to intrn duce a nm. "An Act lo Amend the lntcrprctarfon Act". Giving Notioe o{ Question MR. HOL LETT: To ask the Honourab le the Minister of l~couomic D evelop ment r.o lay 0 11 the Lablc of the Hou se the following infor mati on: (

I) The f,otal amount of Govern ­ ment moucys paid o u t on ac,xiunt of lh c co11,1tnu:1ion and oper ation of the llinJ1 Plan t het.wcc11 D c,., mbcr 1st, 1950 .nd 11,., dale of cancellat ion o( the lease cnteTt'd in to herwecn tbe Covc rn ment and C.hcsrcr D owe.

(2) On what gro unds was this l!i yea r lca3e (:amelled? (.~) Wha t 11•as Lhe lota l arn ou111. o[ cleprccl ,itioll all owed by the T ax;ition l)iv ision of the Oep t. ()f ;\/ational Re­ v,~1111c up to Lhe tim e of lhe canc:ella­ tion of the lease wi c,h M r. Dawe? How muc:h of thi.1 cleprccia1.ion amount was paid over to the Governme nt?

(4) Give LOia! operating cx:penseft clutin~ !lie tenu, ·e of lh e said lease. (::

i) What .11nou11t of Fire Jns1irance was carried on sai, 1 Plant, and how rnucli has been paid 011t in fi ,-e in• surancc p1·eru iu1115 during the opera­ tion of the said leas e? Wit h what coruµany was tlle ,premise~ insured;? /6) Wh.ll amount h>ts bci,n e xpen ded altogi, 1,J1er on upkeep and mai ntc11- ance of said l'lanl and c'luipmcnt?

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(7) Ila s !l,f,-, Cheste r Dawe or any .Joi!ltl. Stock Company owned or con· trolled by him any int ere,r, mone tary or othcrwi,e, in the prese nt open1.tion of said Birch Plant? It so, to what extent? (

R) Give a mmplete fina nci al st.,te­ ment of the opeTatiou, of the Birch Plan t during the tenure o( the above ­ named ilea5e to include all mone ys paid o ut by the Governm ent on ac­ conn t of cnn.1trnction, purch ase of machinery, operating expenses and purchase of 3lock n p Lo cancell ation of said lease.

(9) Give full info rmalion as t.1 the teI'IJls af agree ment nr sale, as the GL5 C may be, with the pl'esent opera ­ tors. T o include au,onn ls of any loans made to sait.1 <>perators.

(4) MR. HOI.Ll ffT ; To ask the Ilonourablc the Mini,5ter of Economic De,•clr>p ment to lay on the tabl e ,>f the J lou~e a complete report. (

l) Of the visit ()f xaid ~fin L,tcr ant.l (1Lhcr h ononrahlc inem-bcr.; Lo the various Capita ls of Eumpcan counlric~ duri ng 1he summer of 105•1, Slatin~ (

a) rca~on~ for the <!xlcnderl vmt, (

h) the names of thos e who accom· pani cct the Minister on these toun;, (

c) t•he total cost to the Provinc e nf sai<l tours.

(2) A comp letc report of the rec:,,n t trip of the H onourable Minister to Jam.'J..ic-,1, sta-ting also (

a) the rea~ons for ,aid trip, (

b) th e names of those, perso ns who accompanietl the Minis­ ter oit th1'11e tours, (

c) the tot.a.I cost t() the Province ()f said trip.

(3) An itemized account of all lrnvellin g expens es of the Hon. Minis· ter since! March 31st, 1!),54, li.1ting the number of trips outsiclc the Prov ince, Rhowing dates of dep arture, the num- 'ber of <lays afue.nt on e-dch trip, t·he places vL,itcd, the p nrpose of sai<l trip a•nd the cmt ol each to the Province, as also the nam es of any other Govern­ ment members or Cab inet Minis ter , or offi cials of the Government w ho a·c­ w mpanicd the Min ister.

(5) MR. HOLLE TT ; To ask the Hono11ra,ble the M inister o[ Mines an d Resources to lay on the table of the Hous e the following information: (

a) The names alHl addresses of all Mink. farmers now registe red in N ew• fom,dla nd. (

h) The names of those Mink ranch­ ers <>r farmers who have c:omc into the Province since M arch 31st, 1951, and lhei r plac,, oC ah ode h e fore C()rn­ ing lo Newfou ntlla nd. '\Vb.ere are their ranches locat ed now a nd give names of CoI,pOrations whe.rc any are incorp()ra •ted. (c:) Give the nnmber, of Mink prc­ .iently held on each of the ranches now· exi•Ling in Newfonndland. (

d) Ua\'e any loan s or gua..an tee~ becJ1 made nr given to any Mink own­ ers presently operating in N ewfonn cl­ lan<l, iI -:K> to whorn and for ~vhat amount in each case, and nu<ler what terms? (

e) Give the names of all ntcmb era <>[ ll1e :Mink Urccders Association , a nd who arc the offi cers o[ sai<l As~ociJ ­ tion. (

f) What. agreement&, if any have been cnLercd into betwe en said Assod­ ation and the Hon. M inister's Depa rt­ ment or t::he Gav emment. (

g) Undc:1' what ten us ant.lJ or con· ditions di<l the Government take over the whaling boats former ly owne,L and operat ed by the Arct.ir. Fish er ies Ltd .

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 37 Whal is the tot al indeb tedness of this company to the Government at the present time? Give date of tllc most recent loan and the amount of said loan . (i) 1s it the -inten tion of ·the Govcm­ ment to oper ate the whaling !,oats and. to supply whale meat lo Mink ran chers, and if so at what rate per pound? W ho ~ll ma.nage the Gov­ ernment's operation s at the plan t at D ildo. And wha t moneta ry arrang e­ men t has h ecn m ade wkh him as .to salary, etc?

(6) MR. HOLLETT: To ask the Hon ourable th.c Minister of P ublic Welfare to lay on ttle table of the H ou.se the following inform ation ;

(1) The tota l number of familie s n :ceivi ng a·ble,bodicd assistance for each mo.nlii since Februa ry 1st, 1951.

(2) A slalem em showing t·bc num­ ber of ablc-boclied families receiving r elief since February 1st, 195-i by U ectora\ Dist ricts, and the cost nf same 'by D istricts.

(3) Give lhe rntes per person or per family of aible-lJod:ied assist ance.

(4) Give the list of tho.se by Dis­ t.riets in receip t of !lick relief in each m onth sin ce Febru ary 1st, 1954. (!'.) Table a stmemeut of expendi ­ tures u nde r 11,e heading NOTthc m Lwurad or Affai rs, and a lso of receip ts.

(7) MR. IIOLLF.TT : To ae.k the llonourab lc lite Premi er to lay on tile tabl e of Liu:: Hou.,e the following in­ for mati on ; (

I) A full 1eport of any cnnver­ aalion ~ held wit<h Prem ier Duplessis of Quebec relative to Lhe Q uehe c-Ncw­ found lautl Bouudary.

(2) Was Mr. J. P aul Beauli eu, Que- bee's Minis ter of T rade and Com ­ merce pre~ent al these c:nnversations? (~) What, if anylhing, h as be"n done hy the Governm ent to dcle rmin e the i,xa cl local.ion o f the Newfound l and J\oi1 n<lary as defi ned by the Pr ivy <.;Quncil tlec:ision of I 927?

(4) W hat was t.hc natu re of l'11e ·•gentlem an' s agn ,eroent" between the lion. the Pr~mi er antl Premier Dup­ lessis as rep orled in a r ecent sta tement by Mr. J. Pau l lleauli eu to Mr. F. Ilu m ham Gill and publ i.9hed in "The D aily New," of March 14th , )9.~5~

(8) MR. HOLLF,TT: T o ask the J.Ionourahle the Minist er of Econom ic Develo?menL to lay on tbe tahl e of the lJ01m• the following informa tion: (

a) A statoro cnt showi ug the number a11Cl title,; of Docume nlarr films made for ~he Govern menl by the Atla n tic Fil111s and F.lectl'onics I ,td. since the first loan -by 1.ihe Governmeut to t'hc said Company. (h) "What amoun t of money was paid hy ~he Governm ent for each of thc•e film s? (

c) Js the Comp any w11ler contract to m ake aHy further films -for the Gove,rnment, if so, state the arnou nl• o