georgetown civic officials re- gtstering at yesterday's first an- nual convention of Prince Ed-

ward Island Federation of May-

Premier's

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that senior officials of the gov- ernments concerned should meet at an early date to discuss pos- sible forumlae to govern the dis- tribution between the four pro- vinces and, if possible, to reach an agreed recommendation to their respective Ministers. This

meeting of officials was not authorized to discuss, nor did it discuss, the amount of the

special grant. Its sole function was to discuss, and, if possible, reach agreement on a formula of distribution between the four provinces. Prince Edward Is- land was represented at this Conference by Mr. W. E. Mas- sey, Deputy Provincial Treas- urer, and Mr. R. G. McLeod, your Executive Assistant.

Mr. Taylor was asked by the Provincial representatives to take the chair at these meetings and his entire objective was to assist the Provincial officials in reaching «a mutually acceptable formula. During the course of the two days of meetings a consider- able variety of formulae were suggested and examin , of vary- ing degrees of mathematical complexity. In the end it was agreed by the officials that a simple, 30-30-30-10 division of whatever grant might be avail- able came closest to meeting the different points of view, and that they would so report to their re- spective Ministers.

It is signiﬁcant that at the conclusion of the Conference the

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PANTRY SALE at Holm:-1n's on Friday afternoon. May 16th. By Freetown Presbyterian W.M.S.

JEVEN MILE BAY Borden Dlayers present their three act drama -“My Irish Rose” Thursday evening May 15th, Sev- §i§f'Mile Bay Hall. Curtain 8.30.

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nnvoo RESUMED at St. An- II10!1lr'-’s Legion Hall, Bloomfield, Wednesday night, May 14th. 8:30 Iackpot s75:oo. well stocked can-

'I’H,E.;'ANNUAL meeting of the 01?-eary and District Aritficials Btgeed-ping Club will be held in Community Hall Wed- heyday May 14th. at 8 p.m.

TRINITY Y.P.U. Summerside will present their 3 act play “an °1lIi fashioned mother" in Cape Traverse Hall on Thursday, May lstli. 8.15 pm. Sponsored by Cape Traverse choir, sale of candy.

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thanks of the representatives of the four Atlantic Provinces were warmly tendered to Mr. Taylor for the manner in which he had conducted the meetings as Chairman. Mr. W. M. Marshall, Deputy Minister of Finance of Newfoundland, in speaking for the representatives of all four Atlantic Provinces expressed their appreciation to Mr. Taylor for the skill, tact and unfailing good humour he had exhibited in steering the meetings to such a satisfactory conclusion.

On January 6th, 1958, the Premier of Nova Scotia addres- sed a letter to the Prime Minis- ter of Canada saying that he had been authorized by the Pre- miers of New Brunswick, New- foundland and Prince Edward Island to convey to him their agreement on the 30-30-30-10 for- mula for sharing the special grant among the Atlantic Pro- vinces.

Whatever may be your com- ments upon the reasons why the former Liberal Government de- cided not to make any special grants to the Atlantic Provinces, I wish to go on record as say- ing that it is the Government of the day which must take respon- sibility for the use it makes of any advice tendered to it by its officials.'In the ten months that I have been Minister of Ihnatnce I have found on the part of the senior officials of this Depart- ment a devotion to the best. traditions of the public service. I must deplore the completely unfounded attack which you have made against the Deputy Minister of this Department if you have been correctly quoted in the Guardian.

In the light of the publicity given to your remarks in the Prince Edward Island Legisla- tu-re I am making this letter pub- lic.

Yours Sincerely, (Sgd) DONALD M. FLEMING

April 24, 1958 Hon. Donald M. Fleming,

Minister of Finance, Ottawa. Dear Sir:

I received your letter relative to my statements on the Hall- fax Conference and in particular on a comment made by an of- ficial of your Department there.

I can assure you, Mr. Fleming, that I am very much more dis- turbed than you were about this

closed clipping from the Char- lottetown Guardian, published on the nineteenth day of April and two days before I received your favor, that I attributed the sen-_ tence “Prince Edward Island should be given 1.7 million dol- lars and that is more than they deserve" to Mr. R.M. Burns not to Dr. Taylor. I find it extremely deplorable’ that you should feel free to write’ a letter to me and without await- ing a reply and ascertaining the true facts, publish your let-teron the day I received it. I believe I need say no/more under these circumstances. but I do think, and I am sure you will agree that in the interests of the public understanding. I should also publish this letter to you and end the discussion of this unfortunate mistake. _

At the same time you W111 readily understand my concern over the report of the statement itself and the feeling it engend- ered of throwing cold water over the hopes and ambitions of the people of this Province. As prem- ier of the Province. my only 111- terest is in doing my utmost to fulfil the basic ‘needs Of the people and in trying as the,lead- er of the government to obtain ‘the -same standard of PPOSPFTIY which the rest of Canada enJ0yS-

1 have, before the government of which you are a member, and previous governments. Pressed the case of Prince Edward _Is- land as an absolute necessity- on the basis of fiscal need, for an additional grant of $0-000-00¢ The mention of 1,700,000 as m0I‘¢ than enough is not only 3bS1_11'd- but grevious. We are to receive. and I must emphatically through strenuous and sometimes em- barressing negotiations. $2500.- 000. For that we are not ungrate- ful at all. to the C0I1t1'31‘Y;

But I would be remiss 111 my

‘duties as Premier if I did not

say, on behalf of the people of oui' province, and I will C011- tinue to say with conviction, it is not enough. You are well able to ascertain this through _the Submission which this province

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in Alberton. _ t- d Miss Vera Oliver has accep e

eorge R. Macltlahon,

a position as book~keeD9l‘ ‘Vim J.W. Don Campbell. -’\1bClt°“-

matter. You will see by the en- t

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art, while seated at the regis- tration desk are Summerside Town Office s t a f f members Helen Sharp and Jean Nichol- son.

laid before the Prime Minister last fall.

While I do not wish to prolong unnecessary discussions, there is another point in your letter which bears correction. You state that the meeting of officials at Hali- fax was not “authorized to dis- cuss, nor did it discuss the a- mount of the special grant”. 1 agree that your officials did not come to the meeting with a spec- ific amount which the Atlantic Provinces were to divide, but it was patent to all represent- atives at the meeting, not only from the statements made‘, but through typed calculations pre- sented by your Department that the limit of the adjustment grant seemed to be between $20-$25 million and the share of this pro- vince established at first around the low figure previously men- tioned.

It is also a well known fact that the figure of $23,488,00 was a discussed amount in certain cir- cles at the Federal Provincial Conference .in November.

Be that as it may, we in this Island felt recognition of our situation in a statement by the present Prime Minister, which I might point out was made be- fore a previous election at Sum- merside and quoted in the same Charlottetown Guardian, that he felt -sympathy with this province as the “poorest of poor rela- tions”.

As I have said, we are grate- ful that, although we continue to have that status we are less poor to the extent of $2.5 million. However we still press with a feeling of justification for our full needs. .

Further, you will appreciate the disappointment of the people of this province when you amend- ed your statement in the House of Commons that the province would receive an ‘additional $300.- 000 odd dollars under the general formula. In this Province every dollar is of the utmost import- ance and it was a serious blow to us to have this amount cut off regardless the reason.

In closing may I suggest, that in‘ the future in order to guard the cordial relations which have existed between this province and Ottawa, we should discuss our problems in private rather than in the press.

Yours Sincerely, , A. W. MATHESON Premier

Ottawa, May 2nd, 1958.

The Horn. A.W. Matheson‘, Q. C., Permier, Prince Edward Island tcharlottetown, P. E. I.

Dear Mr. Premier:

I acknowledge receipt of your letter of April 25th, and am glad to hear from you. ‘

In the final sentence of page one of your letter you state that you consider that “in the in- terests of the public understand- ing, I should also publish this ‘letter to you and end the dis- 'cussion of this unfortunate mis- In the final paragraph of your letter, _however, you state you have decided to hold publication of your letter -“for the present.” I have seen no in- dication in the press of its pub- lication.

I am aware. however, of a Canadian Press report of April 21st in which statements are at- -tributed to you which compel comment on my part which must be made public in view of the publicity given to your remarks.

I note that in this new press report, in relation to the alleged statements that Prince Edward Island should be given $1.7 mil- lion and “that is more than they deserve", you state that you did not intend to attribute this re- mark to Dr. Taylor. I am very glad to receive this assurance. However, both in the statement attributed to you in the Cana-

dian Press dispatch of April 21st and in your letter to me of April 25th you do ascribe this remark

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to Mr. R. M. Burns of this de- partment. In my letter to you of April 18th. I flatly denied that Mr. Taylor made any statement which could possibly be interpreted in any such case. I now equally flatly deny that Mr. Burns made the statement or any statement which could possibly be interpreted in any such sense.

Mr. Burns is a respected and valued officer of this depart- ment. Your attack upon him is without warrant or justification.

In view of the way in which your Mr.

remark has reflected on Burns. I feel that my denial of

it must be made public unless to L. _ ~ T

you are prepared publicly withdraw or disavow it.

In your letter you proceed to the discussion of other subjects. I shal be glad to reply to your observations (many of them un- founded) on these other subjects. Tlia.t correspondence can pro- ceed either with or without pub- lication thereof. Before taking Steps to reply to your letter on these matters, however, I shall be glad to wait until I know whether you are prepared to withdraw the statement which you have imputed to Mr. Burns, and which he never made.

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd> DONALD M. FLEMING

M 9, 1958 Holt. Donald Fleming,”

Minister of Finance, Ottawa.

Canada.

Dear Mr. Minister:

_Your letter of May 2nd. is very disappointing in that you did not see fit to answer any of my statements on the just claims of Prince Edward Island. It is un- fortunate that you would choose to spend so much time on the other matter and not take up questions which are more worthy of consideration between us.

However, we have noted your promise to write observations on the problems of this province and can assure you that the people of Prince Edward Island eagerly await your reply.

In so far as the remainder of your letter is concerned, I con- cur that Mr. Burns is a respect- ed and valued officer of your de- partment and have known this from personal contact. The re- presentatives to the Halifax meet- ing from Prince Edward Island and the other provinces are also respected and honourable men. At the same time, I have ab- solutely no intention of withdraw- ing remarks which I am assured rare the truth.

I know persons who attended the meeting and who are pre- pared toswear that Mr. Burns made the remarks which I attri- buted to him.

You may do as you wish re- garding publication of our let- ters. I withheld publication of my letter of April 25th. for the present as I felt that it ill-suited elected representatives of the

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people, such as ourselves, to carry on correspondence through the medium of the press. How- ever, since you instituted the pro- cedure, I am quite prepared to follow this through should you

so wish. ’Yours very truly, .___ '” A. W. MATHESON Premier.

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