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,_ Red Chief Takes
Tough Line
'l‘:\'l‘ABA.\iYA, ,Hungai'y (Reu- ters) ——Nikita S. Khrushchev warned Tuesday that if “en- emies of the working class” tried to organize an uprising in any Communist country they would
be giV€n “a well-deserved an- sv\'cr." The visiting Soviet premier
and Communist party secretary ‘declared: “I can tell you with certainly that the counter-revolu- tion will never be repeated in Hungary. ."
Speaking to some 40.000 work- ers in this coal-mining centre 3] miles west of Budapest, Khrush- chev said the forces of the Soviet Union are ready to give hel-p against “provocateurs."
Khrushchev spoke without notes to a silent crowd at 3 scene where in October, 1956, the"e was fighting, strikes and mines were flooded. Only offi- cials of the closely-guarded plat- form app-lauded.
The stocky Communist chief too‘: a tough line with the quiet crowd. He told them if they didn’t like his critical comments, they could “swallow them all the same."
CROWDS SILENT
Khrushchev, t o -u r i n g " Hun. garian towns after talks in the capital with the country’s lead- ers, has run into silent crowds and hecklers.. ,
He was accompanied here by leading officials of ‘Hungary and R u s s i a, including .Hungarain Co-mmunist chief Janos Kad-ar, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei G-romyko and Fro-l Kozlov, a So-
viet first deputy premier. Secur- ity police also were present.
“We want to call the attention of those who like to be provoca- tive that we do not -advise the enemy of the working class to make any new provo-cations," Khrushchev told the miners here.
' “And if the enemy of the work- mg class or any provocateurs try to instigate a new putscli or a. counteruevolution in any so- cialist country, I call attention from here that all socialist coun- tries and the forces of the Soviet Union are ready at‘ any moment to unite their forces and give help and a well-deserved answer to the provocations.”
REMARKS DISTORTED
Kh-r/ushohev, who said some of ‘the ' local miners had been “slightly mistaken" in October, 1956, as to whether a “revolu- tion” or a “counter - revolution w-as taking place, accused West- ern coarrespondents of having dis- torted his remarks in the Da- nube steel town of Sztali-nviaros last Saturday.
The Soviet leader then told steel , worker-s——“you should not think that if the counter-revolu- tion comes again you can depend on the Russians coming to your help again——you must help your- selves.’ _
Today, Khrushchev declared: “I said to our Hungarian friends in Sztalinvaros that you should menace your affairs so that there would be no new counter-revolu- tion and we Russians should not -be obliged to come to your aid.”
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CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1958
ADJUSTMENT GRANT INCLUDED
NOT MORE THAN
Millvale Home Destroyed By Fire Tuesday
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Wal- ter Somers of Millvale was com- pletely destroyed by fiire Tuesday afternoon.
The fire, of unknown origin, was discovered about 3 o’clock in the upstairs by Mr. and Mrs. Somers who were at home at the time but were unaware of the fire until it had broken through the ceiling. Its rapid spread throughout the house prevented all the efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Somers to save some clothing and furniture.
Neighbours who arrived on the scene were on time only to watch the house being consumed. The two-storey frame dwelling was built ten years ago, and it IS un- derstood to have been partly cov- ered by insurance.
TOUGH CANINE
The British mastiff, now used often as a watchdog, was origin- ally bred as a sporting dog.
Nfld. PremierOui- Claims Opposition Critic
“Dirty work at the crossroads" was the way Dr. L. G. Dewar deo- cribed Premier Smallwood’s sharing in the Atlantic Provin- ces’ grant. “Mr. Smallwood ran off with the prize and no one tried to stop hitm", he said.
Dr. Dewar fired the first op- position gun of the budget debate in the Legislature last night." He spoke briefly before adjournment at. 10 o’clock.
Claiming that the Newfound- land Premier out-manoeuvered the other three Provinces Dr. Dewar went on to quote from Hansard in which Mr. Pickers- gill was making reference to statements made by the Prime Minister. Premier Stanfield and Premier Flemming during the November Federal - Provincial conference. ‘
A DIFFERENT CASE
All three speakers, it was in- dicated by the report, pictured Newfoundland in a class by it- self. The view taken was that Newfoundlands case was under review by a Royal Commission and whatever consideration would be given by the Federal Govern- ment under an adjustment grant, would not apply to Mr. Small- wood’s Province. ,
Continuing with the report from Hansard Dr. Dewar showed that the Newfoundland Premier mag: his plea on the basis of being years behind the Maritimes.
The Opposition member point‘-
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DR. L. G. DEWAR
ed out that this was an erroneous comparison on the part of Mr. Smallwood since statistics show that the per capita and family economic level of Prince Edward Island is very little ahead of Newfoundland.
N0 OBJECTIONS
Dr. Dewar said there was noth- ing to show in the report that any objection came from the Pre- mier of Prince Edward Island
FoxedUs
He said Newtoundland’s share of the grant turned out to be $7,500,000 plus $1,686,000 under the increase in income tax from 10 to 13 per cent. “If there is any fault to find with the way the. grant was divided‘ up," 'it='ir'ests1 with thefiuo Prsmievs - the mler of Newfoundland and. ‘ the. Premier of Prince Edward Is- land,” said Dr. Dewar. _
The Opposition critic took ex- ception to the statement of the Provincial Treasurer ‘when he said in his budget’ speech that the Island did not receive anything from the $62,000,000 gained by the 1-lrovinces through the granting of extra income tax concessions.
Dr. Dewar said the 1955 agree- ment was so bad that a stabiliz- ation grant of $412,000 had to be included to bring the Island up to the $4,136,000 that it received under the 1952 agreement.
Dr. Dewar argued that without the stabilization -grant inserted for the benefit of the Island, the Province would have received only $3,724,000. He said the gain through the three per cent in- come tax collections amounted to $393,000 thus leaving only $19,- 000 which had to be paid to bring the amount of the grant up to $4,- 136,000.
Premier Matheson: “How much
that Newfoundland was receiving
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Gordon Commission Urges Fairer Sharing Wealth
OTTAWA (CP)—The report of the Gordon royal commission on Oanada’s economic prospects sug- gests more concern be taken with the proper distribution of wealth in this cou-ntry.
A humanitarian approach re- curs throughout the 300,000-word report, made public Tuesday after 21/2 years’ la-bor.
Amid the welter of fora-asts of a bigger population, bigger na- tional income, bigger production, these paragraphs occur:
“Those who built this country showed by what they did that they believed its economic future Was not entirely beyond their Power to control . . .
“The nation now is much weal- thier than it was then and can perhaps afford to concern" itself more than they could with the proper distribution of wealth rat- her than with its creation . . .
“The general prosperity also often cnncnals the fact tha‘, both in the cities and in the country, there are many Canadians with incomes insui'fici'ent for their needs.
T00 I.lT'l‘l.l-I .\lO.\'EY
“In spite of higher \\'8gCS. there are Sllll families with ionvlittlc. money to bi'in;_: up their children ‘lecently. In spite of social secur- tl’ measures and the efforts of Charity, there are still old people Sl0\\l\ d_\ing in back bedrooms; 0" xxhich the rem is long‘ over-
due
ire Colllllll;-S1011, in a (l1al>1€1‘, 011 housing and social capital.f N85 the unromantic fact is ‘that:
‘and fire protection is thinly
most Canadians are not jut-jawed outdoorsmen but live and work in cities and towns.
“it is of no small importance that they (Canadians) should see themselves and their surrounding for what they are. The spectacle may not in all resipecits be 131985- ant to contemplate, but ‘contem- plated it must be as the vital first step in moving toward more ef- ficient and -more rewarding pat- terns of urban life.”
The commission forecasts that by 1930 the Ca-nadian population will have increased by some 10,- 000,000 to 27,000,000 and that 30 per cent of Canadians-—coI11lP31_‘ed to 62 per cent in 1951-W1ll live in urban areas. Average weekly hours of work will rlecrease and leisure time increase.
Some persons, says the r&P0I“'§. might think Canadians will recoil in horror at the prospect of a Montreal ‘or Toronto with a pop- ulation of 3,000,000 each. Bill facts must be faced.
DEFY ANATHEMA
“For some centuries, Cities in general have 80119 011 getting big‘ ger, adapting their modes of growth to techii-ological and other change and defying every sort of‘ anathema. prediction 0‘ doom and plea for common sense.
The modern Canadian city. the commission says, 1: P001‘ 13.31"" nicipal services and amenities. Schools are overcrowded Police
spread. ’[‘i'ansi-l service is reluct- antly and sparsely pi "ricied at fi- nancial loss. Little or no space has been left for parks.
The commission says it expects $100,000,()00,000’wi-ll be spent on new housing and social capital during the next 22 years. Social capital c-omprises such items as streets, roads, sewers, schools, playgrounds, community centres, hockey rinks and art galleries.
With the need for more and bet- ter community planning and for greater centralization of urban inunvicipalities under one author- ity, Canadians would be ‘‘well ad- vised to take a fresh and con- structive interest in the affairs’ of city hall.”
It suggests methods by which municipalities could obtain more revenue: a change for sewer service, a municipal tax on mo- tor vehicles, frequent reassess- ment of real property and pay- ment of property taxes in monthly instalments instead of in an annual lump sum.
ALMOST 6,000,000 STUDENTS
Enrolment in elementary and secondary schools and universi- ties would increase to 5,508,000 by 1980 from 3,105,000 in 1955.
The commission relates the world situation to the individual Canadian in these terms:
“Over all our human encamp- mcnts, sheltering so much endur-
‘ance and courage and squalor,
towers the principal totem of our age—a fireball two or three miles across, rising into an atomic cloud supported on a slender stalk, through which rush radio- active particles to fall over hun- dreds of miles in a gentle, lethal rain . . . (Continued on Page 3 Col. 1)
With salaries and supplements next year at Government level estimated “to exceed‘ one-half millinon by the pI‘0V1l1Cla*l..‘SCl'l00l. districts “you are now in the march of economic progress for the first time in this century,” Hon. Keir Clark, Minister of Ed- ucation told provincial teachers session of their annual 3-day 0011‘ vention;
The Minister was introduced and thanked by Miss M81191 Matheson, president of the P.E.I. Teaicher’s Federation.
“Next year salaries will aver- age ver $2,000, an increase of 120 per cent in the past ten years
years.” he said._
Inflation considered, you have increased your purchasing POWBI as expressed in constant dollars
decade, much faster than the rest of the population,” he added.
65 LEAN YEARS _
In the 65 years the Public Schools Act was in force '-prior to, 1942 there were no salary in- creases except for the adJust- ment for wartime inflation in 1920 “which little more than offsetthe salary supplement reductions made some twenty years earlier” the Minister noted.
“In fact the average salaries prior to 1920 doynot appear to be substantially different from the $45 salary noted in 1833 or the $50 salary noted in 1825." he added. ~“—~~»i"I1%"~ COIN»? ,.‘__;;HO11R‘..AJ1'-5 presented thefollowing statistics on (‘average salaries: 1941, -$524; 1947, $872; 1955, $1,614; and 1957, $1,900.
Crying down the educational system of the Province can do “immeasurable harm” Hon. Mr. Clark ‘warned.
“Accentuating our supposed shortcomings and deficiencies has a cumulative effect which may reach devastating proportions,” the Minister asserted.
WOULD PAY
“If our taxpayers are made aware of the advantages and deficiencies has a cumulative of necessity of proposed educational improvements,” he continued, “they are willing, I believe, to pay for such ‘improvements with-
N .B.« Budget Due Thursday
17‘-REDERIJCTON (CP) —- Pro- vincial Secret-ary-’1‘reasurer Dnu- aid D. Patterson will bring down his budget Thursday he told the New Brunswick legislature Tues- day as the House resumed its session following a four-week re- cess.
Introduction of 18 government bills and 33 private petitions in- dicated a speed-up in legislative business. Most of the government bills were proposed amendments to existing acts.
The annual report of Fire Mar- shal E. J. Sturgeon was tabled. showing the province suffered damage of nearly $4,500,000 in 1,824 fires last year. Thirty-three persons were killed and 25 in- jured.
yesterday morning at the initial -
or 163 per cent in the past 16‘ '
at least 60 per cent in the past .
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HON. MR. CLARK
in their fiscal capacity.
“However, if they are led to believe that they are not getting value for the money already be- ing spent, that the schools are a mess and the teachers unqualifi- ed and inefficient, they will na- turally be unwilling to increase taxation and shell out hard earn- ed dollars to further promote wasteful activity. _
“I think, therefore, it is up to us in the Department 'of Educa- tion, and you in the schools, to prove the value of our existence
sand-rte geonvfnce those who provide-
Teacl1ers' Position Best Of Centur, inisier Says
I are using the money provided in proper fashion, and that we could use further money for continued improvement."
CERTIFICATION BOARD
The certification board they had requested was in the process of establishment, Hon. Mr. Clark told the Federation members.
“This Board will be known as the Prince Edward Island Board of Teacher Education and Stan- dards,” he said, adding that the Federation should nominate rep- resentatives to this new board as soon as possible.
The Minister also referred to cumulative sick leave plan brought into force by 0rdei;-in- Council shortly after. the teachers had asked for -this security meas- ure. ‘
“I think you will find we . .gave you a reasonable and generous sick leave plan,” he observed.
“We must look ahead. We can- not revolutionize education in ‘a few months.” the Minister con- cluded.
“Education is a meticulous pro- cess,“ he said, “but with your co-operation, and with your, sin- cere and continued efforts‘ the future ‘of education in this pro- Vince is bright.
Also heard at yesterday morn- ing’s opening session were an address by the president, Miss Mabel Matheson, and a speech of welcome, delivered by His Wor- ship, Mayor Edwin; C. -Johnstnne.
Study Groups,,a dinner meeting
C P R Group In
CHIJOAGO (CP)—-A strike’ of Canadian Pacific Railway fire- men to enforce their protests against reducing the number of diesel firemen would have the support of the fi.remen’s union in the United States, international union president H. E. Gilbert gsaiid Tuesday.
“Whatever decision the CPR firemen make,” he said in an inter-vveiw, “will have the support of members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and En- ginemen.”
U.S. and Canadian officers of the 90,000-member union are meeting to consider — among other things-—the u-nion’s battle with the CPR over the railway’s proposal to cut down the number of firemen in diesel service st-art-
in-g May 11. '
The issue was discussed during the day at closed meetings of the brotherhood’s North American policy committee of 300 mem- bers, including about 30\ from Canada.
‘Outside the meeting, Gilbert said that a decision to strike would be up to the Canadian membership, which has about 3,- 000 employees on the Canadian Pacific.
SUPPORT PLEDGED
“Once they make the deci-
sion,” Mr. Gilbert said, “they will have full support.”
the‘ dollars for education, that we»
iug, feature today's agenda.
U.S. Firemen Would Bqck
Strike
Asked whether ‘this support would be moral, or financial or both, the brotherhood chief re- plied:
“Whatever it may take to im- plement the decision.’
The question of financial sup- port for the Canadian firemen from the international treasury in the event of a strike was one of those brought before the gen- eral policy committee Tuesday by Canadian ofticers headed by W. E. G-arnble of Montreal.
While the Canadian member- ship of the union has authority so far as the callingof a strike ‘is «concerned, it also must get ap- proval from the union’s interna- tional finance committee before financial support’ can be drawn from the general treasury for strikers.
The finance committee is meeting here in conjunction with the policy committee.
UP TO CANADIANS ‘
Also, Gilbert said, a strike would need his personal author- ization under the union setup, before Canadian strikers could draw financial assistance.
But he added:
“Any steps to impose our econ- omic strength are strictly in the hands of those involved. We can not from here impose a decision on the Canadian membership to exercise’ its economic strength."
to the Federation of ' Arthur R. Menzies, greeted by‘
Canada's High Commissioner il\_lllllSlCI‘ Malaya, .Dato Haji Mahmood, at Kuala Lam- is the keeper of the ruler’s Seal, Malaya’: permanent Secretary,_pni', Mar. 92. Menzies presented Enche Abdul Rahim Bin Rauf.
External Affairs,
Nik Ahmed Kamil Bin
CANADIAN WELCOMED IN MALAYA
of
his letter of commission in the Nlalayan government. In center
at 6:30-*followed’rby*-»a- social
: the $2,500,000 adjustment
Three Dead, Gas Poisoning ls Suspected
BRESON, ‘Que. (CP) -— Two young men and a girl were found dead Tuesday in a motel bed- room, and a third man was taken from the same room to hospital in nearby Shawville, apparently suffering from gas poisoning.
The discovery was made at 2 pm. EST by motel proprietor Glen Saunders of this community 50 miles northwest of Ottawa. Quebec provincial police were called from nearby Campbell's Bay. ’
The dead youths were identi- fied as Gilbert Racine, 25, and Lucien Racine, 27, both of Otter Lake and believed to be cousins. The girl was Marie-Ange Lemay, 17, of Bryson.
Gravely ill i.n Shawv-ilile hos- pital is Gerard DuBeau, 25, also of Otter Lake.
Coroner Dr. Frank Cowley of Shawville said autopsies will be performed on the three dead at Campbell’s Bay today to determ- ine cause, of death.
“There appeared to be no sign of violence on the bodies,” he said, “but the propane-gas heater lfl‘1flll7l’1’Q motel room was turnedon
"Propane gas, however, is not supposed to kill.”
The heater was not burning, the flame‘ apparently either hav- ing gone out or not been lit.
The ’mot~e1 was described as cotmprising'a string of individu- ally-heated rooms in one block. All the persons occupying the room were in bed when discov- ered.
Is Estimated
Total expenditures of $16,028,- 870 fior the fiscal year 1958-59 were budgeted for by Hon. B. E a rl e MacDonald, Provincial Treasurer, in moving the Le-gis- latu-re into Committee on Supply last evening. Total revenues are estimated at $15,173,886. After de- . ducting $699,250 for debt retire- ment, this will leave an overall delficit of $155,734.
The proposed estimated ordin- ary exipenditures total $10,375,870. This compared with the forecast for the 1957-58 year’s total of $9,- 665,388 shows an increase of $710,- 428, or approxiniately 71/2 per cent. Aifter providing for debt re- tirement a current revenue sur- plus of $2,717,016 will be avail- able for expenditures of a capi- tal nature.
lit is anticipated that the net debt of the Province as at March 31, 1959 will be $23,784,833, repre- senting an increase from March 31, 1958 of $155,734.
“It is estimated that in the fiscal year 1958-59 we shall re- ceive, by way of revenue on cur- rent account, $13,092,886,” Mr. -MacDonald said. “The forecast collection for the current year 1957-58 will amount to $10,528,979, so the anticipated increase for the next fiscal year, over and above the 332% million from the Atlantic Provinces Assistance Grants, is only $63,907. Alter con- sidering aic-tual yields during the past couple of years and cur- rent trends, there is every rea- son to believe that ou-r collec- tions from local sources have
i"-giwomeinc-l(i:l-led I But No Motive
-ST. CATHARTNES, Ont. (GP) An 82-year-old woman was blund- geoned to death Tuesday and her 84-year-old sister critically hurt’ in an attack which police said had no apparent motive. ,
Clara Beamer died on the operating table two hours after she was discovered in her blood- stained bed in a farmhouse in nearby Thorold Township. Her sister N ancy underwent an emergency operation for severe head injuries.
Police Chief Joseph Ferrand of Thorold Township said he had "no idea at all” why the two un- married sistens, who had lived in the farmhouse for half a century,- were attacked. There were ruin- ors that they kept their life sav- ings in the house but there was no evidence that anything was stolen or that anything in the house was disturbed.
Police were also baffled as to how entry was gained to the hou-se. There were no marlcs of forced entry and the doors were locked when milkman William Shelvock discovered -the attack at 9'a.m.
Police said the women were hit repeatedly with a hammer or some other blunt instrument.
WIDE VARIETY Most of the 100,000 species of Seashells known and named are less than half an inch in size.
now reached their peak.”
Provision is made for substan-; iiicreases of liealth, -welfareand labor, edu-
, ;whf~’l “r r.'.U'
rivi: CENTS
Provincia|iTrecIsurer Budgets or $16 Million Expenditures
$2,717,016 Revenue Surplus
For 1958 - 59
HON. MR. MACDONALD
improvements. The change-over in the method of collection and remission of the tax on tobacco sales has resulted not only in a more efficient and satisfactory method but the ublic has the sagfisfiaiction of kno iug that their full tax is reaching the treasury.
“The Administration of the gas- oline tax," he added, f‘ls still un- der study and I hope before long to introduce a new system by which many of the/D1‘€‘S9!1’l CM‘ ficulties and annoyances connec- ted with rebates or refunds for non-highway use will be remov-
l‘ “We continueto explore avenues with a view to securing
-cation and agriculture. _
HEALTH INSUR.ANCE
The only appropriation in con- nection with the proposed Feder- al - Provincial-Hospital Insur- ance Plan is a sum of $10,000. In eicpla-nation, Mr. Mac-Donald said it is not expected that the scheme will be in effect until sometime in 1959 and the allot- ment is to provide for expenses incurred during the‘ organization of the plan.
“As you know,” he said, “this Province has agreed to the broad principles involved, but until the details have been worked out, the costs and benefits cannot be accurately forecast. It has been indicated that the scheme will involve the sharing of certain health services by the Federal and Provincial Governments. Un- til the cost has been ascertained and officially announced I cannot express my views, nor can we, as a government, make any pro- vision in the budget to imple- ment the proposed services. One thing we do know, it will cost the Province a huge sum of mon- ey and just how we can afford» it is something that will have to receive careful study on our part and careful explanation to the public.”
TAXATION
Dealing with taxation Mr. Mac- Donald said the statutes have been efficiently administered and plans have been made for further
sulfificient revenue to furnish, at least, an average standard of ser- _ vices which will eventually lead to progressively higher SLa1’2l.»d‘a‘l’d'S of living in this Province.
-1956-57 ACCOUNTS
Summarizing the accounts tor the fiscal year ended March 31. 1957, Mr. Ma-c(Don-ald said tliart of a total ordinary or current rev- enue of $10,028,147 there was re- ceived from the Federal Govern- ment through subsidies, tax ren- tal agreements, and other assis- tance grants $5,529,035 while the balance of $4,499,112 came from provincial sources.
“tDui-ing the period under re- view (1956-57) our expenditures on current account only came to‘, $8,601,044 leaving a revenue surplus on current operations of $1,427,102, after providing $551,- 500. for sinking Fund purposes.
“In the same year we acquir- ed some $3,825,000 of fixed and revenue producing -assets. We advanced. by way of loans for in- dustrial promotion, an-d.fi=re fight- ing equipment another $106,000; and contributed by way of sub- sidy grants, assistance to Rural Schools and Rural Electrification another $840,000, for a total gross capital outlay of over $4,800,000. Our total revenue, including cap- ital receipts for the same period was only $l1,538,423.15, with a resultant overall deficit or net in- crease in public debt of $1,330,-
(Continucd on Page~3 Col. 4)
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Qualified gratitude was expres- sed in the Legislature last even- ing by Hon. B. Earle MacDon- ald, Provinvciavl Treasurer, for grant receivable this year from the Federal Government. While con- ceding that the additional money will be of great assistance, he maintained that it is far from meeting the Provvirice’s actual needs.
“In view of the promises made last spring by the present Prime Minister and his Island support- ers in the House of Commons,” Mr. MacDonald said, “we had great hopes that our present fis- cal
ognized by the federal govern-
presentation of this Pro-vin:ce’s submission to the Federal- Pro- vincial Conference on November 25th, last.
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a n d’ economic problemsl would have been favourably rec-l NEW FORMULA URGED
DISCUSSIES FEDERAL GRANT
Treasurer “Grateful" But Still Sadly Disappointed
er than the other provinces, sup-. plementary or na-tional adjust- ment grants on a more realistic basis would be more in line with- our present financial position, our urgent needs, and our taxa- ble capacity.
“We ,pointed out that if the Province of Prince Edward Is- land is to prosper and assume its rightful place in this great Can- ada of ours it must receive ad- ditional federal assistance gen- erous enough to assist her in maintaining services which mod- ern requirements demand with‘- out resorting to heavier taxesl than the Canadian average. '
“We have advocated for years
ment as a result of our Premier’s the recongition of this principle
and, at the last Federal - Pro- vincial Conference we again ap- pealed to the Government of Can-
“ . . , ada to measure our needs. tax po-1 In our submission we clcarlyl tential, and tax ability as the pre-. of 1‘ c P»-minz-r~s of Ni.-«sa ’~"~.~~.;«,, showed that for a province such dominant factors in financial ar-;Ne=\' l%x‘uns\\'ick and .\'ewlo;nd- dS_ °l11‘Ss_V_Vhe1f9 per capita econo- ransernents between the Gover~n-.1-..;-.:< and an i1H'l‘.i.'1l ,-..-.=;.:.t ml ivvc mic activity 15 coiisiderably lowq ment of Canada and the Provincel
of Prince Edward Island. In our view, if a new pattern in Feder-
al - Provincial financial rela- tions is to be developed, it should only be adopted after a thorough re-assessment is made of the relative needs and resources of the various governments in Can- ada.
“In all of these expectations, I need hardly relate, we were sadly disappointed, for on Janu- ary 28th, 1958 a B-ill was introduc- ed in the House of Commons a- mending “The Federal - Provin- cial Tax-Sharing Arrangements Act” by adding thereto the fol- lowing sections:
“ll. The Minister of Finance lshall, for each of the four suc- ,cessive fiscal years commenc- ying on the 1st day of April, 19.38 ‘and in addition to all other grants, subsidies and allowances. pay an annual grant of seven and one hall‘ niiilioii (loilars to (‘mix
(Cciitiiiucd on Page 14 C01. 1)