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' Mr .and Mrs. James Morrison turned on Saturday from a hon. con trip through the Maritime . ovinces and Upper Canadm-B. --Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Stewart rc- med last week from Bermuda, here they had spent their honey- oon. They will reside in Summer- de.-S. -Mr. Arthur F. Bell, of OILcary, as a visitor to Summerside last eels-S. —-9drs. A. Monaghan, of West l van, celebrated her 93rd birthday Monday and received many mes- » of congratulations-S. —Professcr Blanchard, of Prince Wales College was a visitor over - week-end to the west of the vines-S. ‘m... will regret u. learn um . Willard . Island, , tlon in the Prince County Hos- cn Saturdays-l. -sl>nmoiwiu be here in a few s. Book your orders for supplies 11-5373-4-1-21. lug Ration for your foxes after mating until pups are 10 days old, development and llacNeill, of Borden. underwent a serious Potato (Continued from Page 9) unemployment problems, consc- quont on the world depression. which had to be met. by large ex- penditures of public money. But the Government carried on, and their record showed that they were more economi l than their Liberal predecessors. It showed also the insdvisability of the elec- tors returning the Opposition mem- bers to power. ~ TENDERS PROPERLY AWARDED The Opposition had criticized the tributi of tenders by the Conservatives. Yeo‘s Bridge. Har- mony. had been mentioned as one job on which the lowest tender was not. recognized. This, Mr. Arsenault said, was incorrect. Ai- though James Diamond tendered for $1.90 per cubic yard, he ac- cepted contract at $1.95, or the same figure that the lowest ten- derer had quoted. as shown on page 58 of the Public Accounts. Mr. T. A. Campbell: "The sec- 0nd chance." Hon. Mr. Arsenault: “It has been the policy, as explained by the Miri- lster of Public Works, that when a man tenders at the right, price, if he happens to live in the comniun- ity he should get the preference. and that has been the system car- ried 0n by this Department." (Ap- plause). Reference had also been made, he said, the Sharbeiis" have received more than they were en- titled to. This criticism, ho show- ed, was, not in accord with the facts. An analysis of the Accounts shows that last year the Minister gave every deserving person, whe- ther Llberal or Conservative, a chance to make a few dollars. He wished to thank the Minister for the assistance given, to fisher- men in his own district in the dis- tribution of public works, Mr. Arsenault continued. The project is a part of the Western Road. where Rfavel must be hauled a long distance by auto truck, and B8 only a. few auto trucks are owned by the residents of that locality, some men received a few hundred dollars, but the cost per ton of delivering the Zravel was very reasonable.‘ ‘ ' . A LIBERAL IIERITAGE Continuing the debate on Friday mWBII-ll. Mr- Arsenault dealt with the Opposition argument alleging a mistake had" been made in tho borrowing 101' the purpose of pay- ing off the Lea Government overs draft. He reviewed" the financial condition facing the Stewart Gov- ernment when it took office. On Aug. 12, 1927, the External Audit showed a balance due the bank of 3351.000 011d 0i’ $358,000 due on IBM 10mm. or a total. due bank and loans, of $009,916. On August 39. 1931. when the Iea Govern- ment went out of office, the External Audit showed an over- draft of 81.041241 and $884,411 due loans, or s total bank overdraft and loans of $l,425,Gbl_ By the "it! 0f 1901. after all Liberal bills were paid, there was due $1,950,592 Opposition Attitude " Re Growers. _' Ass’n. Analyzed In Legislature MM But that, Mr. Arsauault showed, was not all. Of the bond issues made by the Liberals in 1931, $135,- 000 had been issued by the pres- ent Opposition lesder at 0 per cent. and it cost all-a loan taken when financing was much easier than in 1932. The debentures is- sued at that time were for ten years, and at their maturity the Stewart Government had to pay $77,510. This, added to bank loans and overdraft. made a total of $1,736,592, which was the amount of Liberal liability facing this Gov- ernment when it assumed power. Accordingly, they issued bonds. first for $150,000, then for $350,000, and subsequently for $1,000,030. Even after these issues, there were still owing to the bank and loans, the sum of $336,592. Mr. Lea: "You didn't pay the loans off." Hon. Mr. Arsensult: “The lisbil- ity was there. The leader of the Opposition knows it is not good policy t0 have loans of $300,000 with such a large overdraft at the bnak. If those are call loans we must increase our overdraft to pay the depositors" ' Mr. lea: "In this case you didn't have to pay the loans." Hon. Mr. Arsenauit: “Here was an amount facing us of $1,736,000, and not funded_ And besides that, we had those disastrous fires at Faiconwcod Hospital and Prince of Wales College. The result was that we had to go on the bond market when conditlonswere in bad shape. The leader of the Opposition says we didn't have to sell bonds at that time; but where could we have gotten the money?” Mr. Lea: "I didn't say you didn't have to sell bonds; I said you didn't have ‘to sell so many." Hon. Mr. Arscnauit: "My hon. ‘friend says it is quite true that in 1921 he went on the market for $125,000 bonds at 6 per cent, but he says he was careful, he issued only a small amount. and it was ail right, he argues. to do that. He was not sure about his own financ- ing; he would only do it little by little. The late Mr. Bell was a bet- ter financier than that, None of the Opposition have ever been able to take his place, so far as financing is concerned." In four years. continued Mr. Arscnauit, the Liberals increased the liabilities by $1,117,000. ‘Most of this went for road machinery and imported gravel. “What per- manent structures,‘ ‘he ‘ asked, "have they left behind them to ac- count for that. huge debt that future generations will curse the ex-Minister of Public Works for 110111118 foisted on them- THE PRODIG AL S Dealing with the Conservative problem of having to finance the Lea. Government's accumulated debt, Mr. Arsenauit cited the case of a. farmer who is faced with a large amount of debt incurred by his son's extravagance. The farmer has to mortgage his farm, and the prodigal son, instead og being grate- ful. turns upon his father and says: in overdraft and 8308.484 in loans, or a total of $1,659,070. "You are no good; you went and mortgaged the farm for $1,000. (Ap- plause). “'I‘hat," Mr. Speaker, “is S.H.S. HilBKEY T E A M | s Billulllln The Summer-side High School 1100301! team closed their year's ac- tivities with a banquet on Saturday "will in the Blue Room of the new Nsrikln Cafe. The past winter Proved to be a very progressive hoc- key season in the high school. Al- m°ll8h the blue and white lost out to West Kent School. Summersideu traditional rivals, in two very close- ly contested games, the team made remarkable strides, considering the fact that there were only two o; 1M; "l"!!! ldllld in the lineup this year. Great credit is due Coach Garrison 101‘ brlhlllig the team to its present condition, as sumo o1 m; charm were having their first year in organized hockey. Inter-class hocke met with great success and was responsible (o; bringing the boys into good shape. It also developed many “dark horses" that will be ready to represent the school next season. Grade x won the championship of this league and the possession of the Tip Top Tailor cup. donated by Mr. lidgar Clark. The senior team was capably HEAR mun UNELEBIRIB HilHlfiANT Original Equipment Can Be Recondition- ed At a Reasonable Cost, Expert Claims. Mayor Lidstone. members of the town council, members of the press and interested citizens were pres- ent yesterday afternoon in the office of the Summerside Electric Light plant to hear the report of Mr. Rims, of the firm of Bruce Stewart and 00.. Charlottetown. who had been engaged to overhaul no. 3 two cylinder engine, an auxiliary en- gine‘ at the plant. The object of the investigation was to determine whether no. 3 two cylinder and no. 2, four cylinder, the original equip- ment of the , could be rc- conlliticnod at s reasonable cost so thmtitwouldnotbenecesaayto mxci-iase new ‘equipment to take cure of the increasing consuumtlon of electricity by the town. handled by Manager Jack MacPhce and lead by‘ Captain Jim Hogan. ‘rho school athletic association gave the team consistent throuhout the season. . There were twenty-two members and guests present at. the banquet. Jam llaoPhce noted as ‘mast Mas- tar. The King-Responded to by the National Anthem. linen-ed Ouosts-Rsqicndcd-to bymalAIu-rinllrntcarrigan Nflfiflfliflli and Ir. Barb lcliurmsn. ll new. In w. Burns‘ opin- Stafl- In. tbs cost of the repairs would Alilliic Association —Respcndod be reasonable. He recommended tobyPrcsideiitW Inmsn. tbstthe ciiginosbeovcrhsxilsd Hockey Guam-Responded to over-y twoor three months and that br-Oqiisin Jun IIogsn. the all mould be carefully watched llseshocas manager of the and only the highest grades used. hall liaiikodall who had -l| lbs kl any way, in a very suit,- wss wider the capable direction of Mr. Herb Schurmsn. who acted as "iwwnm m. Burns reported that no. a en- gine. which he had examined. was in need of curtain repairs. which finished should put the en- gine in good working order for eJbout ten years. The chief and new needed are new, ns, r _.._. ..._. _ __ ._ _ ER takes. These prodigal sous, after wasting the revenues for four years. come back and accuse us of being Door business men because we had. to borrow the money to pay or; thou- OWII debt." (Applause). - MRI-Bar “'I‘he prodigal son was living on the hunks." I-Ion. Mr. Arsenault: “They should come here with heads bowed down 9nd promise t0 do better." Mr. Lea: "We will kill the fatted calf next summer." Hon. Mr. Arsenault: “The (atted calf? We had that 1m night." (Laughter). STIR-HUNG COMPARISON - Continuing. he showed that the Liberals had had a total capital ex- Pmdllllre 0! $791843. this amount b01118 mostly made up o; gravel and road machinery purchases. The Conservatives‘ total expendlturg on will! Icwunt was $1,399,396 u. their three year period; and this included the rebuild!“ work n Prince of Wales College and Falcon- wood Hospital. ‘ “My hon. friends claim," said Mr. Arsenault, that we should not rote;- to the year 1931, because it was an election year. Let me go back to the year 1927. That was also an election year. When the Stewart Government went to the country on that occasion there was an increase in liability of $159,000. This as com- pared with the increased liability of $544300 In the last eight mouths of my hon. friends opposite!" (Ap- plause). Why should we not oom- Dare the two years and show the difference? Is it any wonder that the difference was so great, with the Liberal Public Works Minister buying road machinery by the hand. red-thousand dollars‘ worth, and or- derlng $300,000 of gravel at $2.77 a ton?" (Applause). “Out of his own mouth the ex- Minister admitted he had lost con- trol of his department. That was in 1930. And If he had loot control before the election year, what con- trol did he have during the election year?" (Applause). Tho Liberal Minister, Mr. Arsen- auit continued, had seen the middle western provinces spending without economy. and he thought that he should do likewise, Charging that partisanship had been evident during the 1931 cam- paign, Mr. Arsenault said a previous speaker had well stated that it was not difficult at that time to desig- nate a man's politics. The Conserva- tives were on their farms, working, while the Liberals were on the roads, ioafing." (Applause), FALCONWOOD PLANS p The Opposition member iind crit- icised at some length the architect's fees in connection with Falconwood Hospital. Mr. Arsenault pointed out that these fees are fixed at the same amount all over Canada. and it had been shown during the debate that the sum of ‘$30,000 had been paid by the trustees for plans of the new Prince Edward Island hospital —a building which did not cost over $300,000. "Are my hon, friends go- ing to castigate the trustees of the hospital, who are known to be able business men, and say that they did not know the value of money?" Mr. Lea: "They must have paid more than six per cent at that rate." Hon. Mr. Arsenauit: "They revised the plans several times. The ex- Minlster of Public Works admitted last night that he knew very little about the plane. the clerk's room. No man could study and make an accurate statement of them after such little examination as my hon. friend gave to the plans, and few men would attempt it; yet the Opposition member came here and made the statement that those plans were not used. after the, Premier had made the statement that they were used in part, and will be used again. The plans are there. and as soon as we can do so. something further must be provided for the care of our insane people. “It is known that more patients at that institution could be cured if; the proper facilities were uailable, and it is surely the duty 0f this Gov- ernment to do what it can to restore these people to their mental health.- When we are able to go ahead. I‘ am sure that something oro wilii be done in that onnection. Then we will ask the ex-Minisier and the‘ leader of the Opposition to come back and visit the hospital and see, what is being done, and perhaps they also will be cured of making, illogical and inaccurate statements." (Applause). l As for the expenditure involved‘ in the architect's plans. I think that futur; generations in this Province would gladly have paid that amount to the elf-Minister of Public Works to send him away somewhere w live on his money and keep him away from the Department of Public Works. Ilad my hon. friends taken that precaution when in power, they would have saved that $1,177,000 that they went behind, and the pro- vince would be that much better off.“ (Applause). ROAD WORK CONTRASTED Resuming the debate on Monday afternoon, Mr. Arsenault gave a striking comparison of expendi- tures in the Provincial Works De- partment under both administra- tions, taking the years 1930 and 1994, as the two last complete years of both Governments. The Liberals, with heavy power machines, machined 320 miles of mad in that year, as against 521 miles done in 1934 by the Conser- vatlvcs. 0,904 miles of road were scraped byhorsepowerdrasflin 1930.06 against 0,728 in 1934. I miles of med were gravelled in 1900, as against 99 1-2 miles last "What," asked Ir. Aracnsult. "was tho Miniiefl attitude about our Island gravel. Ills mm slate- monfl an contradictory. but .we look for his alttitudo in the report of the at of Public Works that year, which is the authen- of tic source of information. At page oa-O. E They are now in_ statanent: "The abundance of gravel led to its use in many Provinces and was found to give a very satis- factory road. The scarcity of that material in this Province delayed its use for some years until the demand for a better road sur- face compelled the department to gravel at least the approaches to the towns and those weaker sections of the road where traffic demanded it. At the end of 1930 there had been surfaced with this material in all 140 miles. It has been found, however, that this material has to be renewed every four years and while making a. satisfactory surface the nuisance from dust is considerable. Al- ready the use of asphalt and concrete had been demonstrated as suitable for the streets and roads carrying heavy traffic, but its high cost from $20,000 to $40,- 000 a mile seemed to piaoe it out; of reach of even the main roads of the Province. “The problem of obtaining a cheapened road surface has been engaging the attention of road builders in all countries. . . Con- siderabie study was given to this by the Department; officials and the Deputy Minister was sent to Memphis.” . . . It is planned to continue the work into Char- lottetown if in the spring it is shown that this type of pave- ment is capable of withstand- ing our winter conditions. and it is believed that slch a pave- ment could be laid down at a $149 A magnificent suits s 1 c a Rzringgrgitchgnglilh 1130's ciao bea- value. a suits or ennui-in f4’. 119-: s splersli ......=.............. and IPRINCE COUNTY CHRONICLE '"' — Cf looks nicer on the roads." (In creased laughter). Mr. Allen Takes Exception Mr. Alien: “I never made such la statement." Hon. Mr. Arsenault: “I was re- cost varying from $12,000 to $18,000. . “We 112d further that in the year 1930 my hon. friend paved three quarters of a. mile of food at a cost of $27,000, while last year this Government paved five miles of permanent road with better mater- ial than was used in the McIntyre Highway, and six mites of the cheaper asphalt type. We also rc- ceived a concrete raid of nearly two miles at Borden from the Do- minion Government, and we built three miles of trans-Canada high- way, receiving $5,500 per mile from the Federal Government so that it cost us about $6,000 per mile. "We find further that the ex- Minister of Public Works, in 1930, built only 8 steel bridges whiiewc in 1934 built eleven, so that this Government's record compares more than favorably with the Lib- eral cit-Ministers in that regard. NO DISCRIMINATION Answering the charge that there had been discrimination against Kings and Queens Counties in the distribution of road graveiling, Mr. Arsenault pointed out that the gravel pits are chiefly situated in Prince County, and it is not ex- pected, at least for a while, to haul tn iuiote points from the pits. Moreover, Piince County west of Silmmerside has large tracts of low, flat land which cannot, be drained properly, and gravel is» of better advantage there. In Kings County, and to some extent in Queens, land is higher and the same amount of gravel is ‘not re- quired on the roads. “But what." he asked, “was the Opposition member's own record in this regard? In 1931 the ex-Min- ister of Public Works spent $85,- 000‘ in the district of the member from Tignish (Mr. T. A. Camp- bell) for the purpose, I presume, of electing that gentleman so that he would be File to sit, in the House as Attorney General." Mr. Alien: "It was money well spent... Hon. Mr. Arsenault: “Pelhaips my hon. friend is sorry now that he made that expenditure, for the other night we had an exhibition in this House from which we cer- tainly concluded that the Tignlsh ‘ memlber never was consulted by the elf-Minister of Public Works when he made that great big out- burst, and quoted Dominion statutes, Bourinot, and everything else he could lay his hands on." (Laugh- tel‘). "no GRAVEL“ The Public Works report of the ex-Mirilster for 1931, at page 9. says: "With the exception of s quantity of gravel which may be found on the beaches. there are no other deposits located in pits suitable for gravelllng purposes.“ (Laughter). "Ho. says now tint he knew about these gravel pile, but that is not what his report says. Of course, be- ing a fisherman, the hon. member. had to go around the shore occa- sionally, and he found gravel on the beaches; but that was all the gravel he knew about." (Increased laughter). ‘ Mr. McIntyre: “It was not the Minister of Public Works said that at all." Hon. Mr. Arsenault: "Ibis is your report for the year 1931. At page 10 it says: “It is unprofitable to use local material when s. contract price ofstobperioneanbepmcnrcd as at present." "That was under Mr. H. J. Phil- lips as contractor. It was "unprof- itable" to use local material be- cause lt could be imported by Mr. Phillips st $7.06 a ion. And my hon. friends wanted to borrow $500,000 to haul more of. this gravel from outside the Province. We kept them down to $800,000. Now the ex-Min- later of Public Works says he knew about this Island gravel, that he had an inspector make an analysis of the pits, and he said that the gravel was 79 per cent gravel and 20 per cent clay. Int the loader of the Opposition says it was ‘ls per cent clay and l5 per cent gravel." (laughter). ‘So who are we to ac- cept as a final authority? But the report shows that they were de- tennined to import gravel. and I think the senior member from cumin! lepcrttwefind mu Summonide my; that this gravel is nicer. because h b whiter and Summerside, not to my hon. friend at all." Mr. Allen: ‘I am the senior mem- ber from Summcrside." Hon. Mr. Arsenauit: “Mr. Speak- er, I think the hon. member is un- der an illusion." (Laughter). . Mr. Allen: "Flor the benefit of the House. Mr. Speaker, I think you will havr to give some ruling." Mi‘. speaker: "I will have to have some evidence before me. The fact that you arc sitting before me is not evidence that you are the sen- ior member." (Laughter). Mr. Alien: "l was elected at the general election of 1931 and have been elected continuously since that time. The other member has not been four sessions in the House, and he was elected later on. Con- sequently I am the senior mem- ber." l-lonHMr. Arscliault: "I believe the other gentleman was in this House some years before my hon. friend sat here at all. And I find the medical member (Dr. Mao- Neiil) sitting in the place of hon- from Moieii. (Mr. Cox). right." (Laughter). elf-Minister's repo:t on the road graveliing situation. department. At page l2 it reads: "The heavy hauling of fertil- izer in early spring and late haul- ing of potatoes in the fail have shown that earth roads cannot be made to carry this traffic. It is strongly evident they will have to be gravelled, and provision should be made for a large ex- tension of this work." "I may, perhaps," said Mr. Arrsenault, "attach a little blame to grow great many loads of fertilizer. made of Public works to build roads so that his leader's ideas could be carried out. “LIBERAL PROVISION” At page l0 of the ex-Ministei-‘s report. we find this statement: “I would strongly urge that liberal provision be made for gravelllng on a large scaieff. “Then he goes on to say that main- tenance of grawlied roads costs from $700 to $1.000 per mile. “With that knowledge he wanted to gravel on a large scale. "From the game report wc find to carry on this graveiling pro- aii done on borrowed money!" ‘Now we find that under our dinary expenditure, because after it. all this Province thankful that the cit-Minister oi‘ weie not returned to power illn- to be leader; tion. Answering the severance pasta-lent of Agriculture. Mr. Ar against. personally M". ferring to the senior member from our next to the member from ment. Rustico (Mr. lePage). That is on account of his priority of right." OPPOSITION LEADEIUS RES- (Iaughler). "If my hon. friend is PONSTBTLITY the senior member, he should be , over where the member from " '~i~i:"~~:c." continued m. Arscnault, “that the Potato O'Leary is sitting, instead of being away down alongside the member Hon-ever. it is not very material. 1 ‘shall simply refer to tive medical mem- ber in future as the “absent mem- ber"; then I shall be sure to be Continuing. Mr. Arsnnault wished further to quote from the Liberal as published in the 1931 annual mport of the the leader of the Opposition for this, because the leader of the Op- position encouraged the buying of a. lot of fertilizer, and the fact that they were morimiging their farms to more potatoes. and hauling a it HCCPSSHFY for the poor Minister that this gravel has to be nznewed every four years. Using 10 tons per chain, it would cost $2,400 per mile gramme under the ex-Minister of Public Works; and that would have ‘to be renewed every four years,- system gravelilng is charged to or- sll it lasts only a few years and that is the proper place to charge "You gee, Mr. Speaker, that after might be _very Public Works and his government in 1981i" (Applause) The public ought to be very careful before electing him to power again. becausr‘, I im- lllhe he would be Minister of Pub- lic Works if the Liberals were re- turned; though we realize that he has a higher ambition, and would he has shown that his ambition is in that dire:- DIPUTY MWISTEIVS POSITION Opposition criticism 0f Mr. Bouitea-‘s connection with the De- scnaulg, said he had nothing to say Boulier. However, when s man is in public life he is judged very often by his mistakes as well as the good things ._,..,_ lie does. He recalled that the Op- position leader himself had ldvlaed, last salon, that the Province could get along without the services of a Deputy Minister of Agriculture at all. (Applause). “Now that we have followed his snglestlon, he criticises us." added Mr. Arsenault amid further ap- plause. (Mr. lea did not reply). "We have not replaced Mr. Boul- ter with any person," continued Mr. Arsenauit. “We have not in- creased the expenditure in that De- pertinent. “Now the leader of the Oppos- ititon tells us that this man was responsible for going to the United States and influencing ‘them to such an extent that they did not put on high duties in 1929, and thereby the producers of this Province made hundreds of thousands of dollars. Thai. is a pretty big ‘assertion to make; that one man from the smallest province of Canada could go to the United States and influ- ence Congress to that extent. In fact. I do not believe the effect was as great. I know we sent Mr. Boul- ter to England in the hope that he might persuade the British auth- orities to lift the embargo on the potato beetle, but we were unable to influence the British Govern- -'"ll’3rl i135 met with ‘lsucii difficulties. but I believe the leads": o! the Opposition can take a share of the blame. We might aswellbe frankandsaytihat we think the blame can be attached to a few individuals-of whom Mr. Boulter is one; and the leader of the Opposition as well, who attend- rd many of their annual meetings, —foi- allowing them to violate thllr own bylaws which commanded them to lay aside every yQar the mem- bership fees of $2.00. They Ignored their own eonstltnt‘ intended for the Internal management or their affairs, and this put their organ- lzatlon in such s condition finan- clally that they could not withstand the first aerlmls blow they met with. Government's Respimslbllity ‘To ask us to guarantee this debt of some $90,000 is really asking too much. Why should this Govern- ment, representing the farmers and taxpayers of all classes, contribute to pay the debts incurred by one organization. which had violated its own bylaws with regard to set- ting aside a. worldng capital with which to meet just such an curler- gency as has arisen? We lmow the record of the O'I.eary Produce Company. Over $3.000 of’ the ‘tox- payers‘ money was lost in that en- terprise. If these lac-operative movements, which are good in themselves, if properly managed, become careless and break their own laws. allowing a few to carry 0n the affairs of the whole organ- izatlon—if they are allowed to do that. expecting that if they get in- to trouble the Government will come to their relief. I soy it is not rightnsnd I do not think the peo- ple of this province would stand for such a policy. iiIIt. LBPAGE‘! SUGGETION "I do‘ not like the manner in which the member from Rnstico (Mr. IePaige) suggested that we might have gone to the bank sec- retively, and pledged the (xi-edit of this Province to answer for the debt 0f this Association. He even sug- gested that Mr. Bouiter and the directors of the Association would have been justified if they had lfilpt the financial statement ‘under their hats‘ at. the annual meetingl Per- haps there was too much of that, and the farmers themselves com- plained that they could not get the infounation they wanted. ere seemed to be g few individuals nizmlng the Association. The lead- er of the Opposition attended some of those annual meetings, and he might ‘have advised his Deputy wanted to into competition with the merchants and business men. And when you come into keen competition of that kind you have got to take your chance of making a. heavy loss. HELPING THE FARMERS “This Government, at any. rate, has done all it possibly could with- out lncuning a heavy liability, to see that the members and farmers generally were given the means of obtaining their fertilizer at a. reas- onable rate, and also to market the potatoes they had last fall. “The leader of the opposition stated that before the Association was formed, fertilizer cost a, great deal more money, and the growers would not have reaped the benefits from the reduction in price but for the Association. However, we know that previous to the organization of the Association, very few potatoes much in use for the growing of p0- tatoes. gncl local dealers had to im- port the small amount sold by rail. 1g, had to go through the middle- man, and of course that cost was passed on to the farmer. When the Association was formed, it was thought advisable to import this article from Gennahy and Holland in great shiploads, which therefore made the cost very much lower to the farmers. PROVINCIAL SANATORIUM "The member from Ralstico has taken the credit for the construc- tion of the Provincial Sanatorlum He stated that he was president oi a committee that was to Wall; 0Y1 I committee to see the general com- mitteefllLaughter). "1 think those were his words. And this committee cf which he was president, he says. started this movement for the Sanl aiorium, through the Women's In- stitutes. "It is very unfair, Mr. Speaker. for the Liberal party to make any claim to this work. We know what they did with the Dalton sane- torlum, and we know what theil attitude was towards public health generally in this Province-how the Bell Govemment refused to give I cent to the Red Cross Society oi the Cihildmrfs Aid Society, while we on this side of the House were the first to g-lve a. grant oi’ $2,500 to the ‘Red Cross, which we subso- quently increased to $3.500. Now, after the Provincial Sanaioriiim has been built, my hon. friend gets Hi1 and claims the credit. And he says that even after holding this ini- pcrrtant position, where he was chairman of this committee which called on the other committee.»- that at the formal opening of the Sartatorlum he was not invited to attend. They had not, the ‘nun- Ilers,‘ he said. to invite him." (Laughter). "That is very serious I think they should do something for him more than they have dons in the past." (Increased laughter). Continuing, Mr. Arscnauit rc- ferred to the Opposition critlciI-lll regarding the Mounted Police. and to the statements particularly oi the member from Rustlco, who al- leged that because some police oi- flcers had taken a drink oil duly. therefore they were not iii 10 ""- fome the Prohibition lnu". “Ii WK’ n11 right, 1 suppose," V11‘. Arsoliauit said, "in their time to have a rc fonned-or an aspirzmv-booticggei on the force." (ADplallsc). Mr. Arsenauit also referred lumi- orously to the teachers‘ strike mir- ing the latter part of the L/"il ad- ministration. and to the c:c<lit which the Rustico member got fox halving acted as plenipoteniiary bc- tween the Government and the teachers. THE CAMPAIGN ISSUE Concluding, he said tlinl. in lhl coming election campaign iiic 31(0- ple will have a clear-cut issue in decide. They will have to considcr that the Liberal party. durinv, their last, four years of office. int-leases‘ the debt hv 9.117.000. and had to show for this huge expenditure. ir. permanent works. a couple of fer- riea and a scow "and a big leather Minister that it was time the farm- ers should be given a more de iled statement; and he should ave pointed out what the consequences were likely to be when they them- selves were violating tlicir own by- laws." (Applause). "It is unfortunate, Mr. Speaker, because it has really given a black eye to all cooperative-societies; and it might have been avoided had they been poperlv advised. Per- - naps the lesson will not be lost on other co-operative organizations, if it teaches them not to allow a few to run things i“ their own wag’. crs‘ Annotation chair." (Laughter). The Conservatives on the otlm hand, admit having incimased tilt debt by 9932.000. but they built a new Prince of Waics College. cost- ing $3B5.000; they rebuilt Fill")!!- wood Hoqiitai at a cost of 3959.000 and they had uncontrolled expend- itures ln connection with Oirl Ave Pensions. uncmpiolinent relief nnc direct relief. "I think.“ he declared "the people are intelligent enougi to distinguish between the pariiei on the records tiny have before them, and that having done so. they will decide to re-elbct the MseMih ‘The trouble with tiv- Potato Grow- IIB Hi0!‘ ian Oovernnicit h-IUII!‘ M0091 is.“ were grown; fertilizer was not very oi 540 SEEK‘