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chopping down trees and I‘was told that the axe was so dull that it would hardly mark hot butter.

Some Member: Remark inaudible. Some Member: Do you visit her very often?

L. George Dewar: No, not very often, but I have a lot of compassion in my heart for her. (Laughter)

Walter R. Shaw: Was she on Winters Works?

(Laughter). L. George Dewar: No they wouldn’t take her on Winters Works. Some Member: Park job.

L. George Dewar: Wouldn’t even give her a job. But anyway here she was out in the woods chopping down trees, hauling them in on her back to the house.

Walter R. Shaw: Did you go out to the woods where she was?

L. George Dewar: No, I didn’t; no I didn’t, but one of the children went out and got her and brought her back home. . . .

Honourable M. Lorne Bonnell: Is that this year?

L. George Dewar: . .. .so I could see her and I wrote to the Department of Welfare again and I said it would certainly be good honest Christian charity if the Department of Welfare could see fit to give that woman a ton of coal or so. I am not sure whether they did it or not; I haven’t been back since. Perhaps they did, I hope they did because it was certainly a very deserving case. A woman that is doing her very best to bring up these children, she thinks a lot of them, she looks after them well, and if they were not there they would be wards of the Department of Welfare and they would be costing the Department anywhere from thirty to forty dollars a month each. Is that correct?

Honourable M. Lorne Bonnell: You are not too far out. L. George Dewar: Yes it would be a matter of. ..

Honourable M. Lorne Bounell: You give us her name now and I will give you a full report on her so when you go back to visit her the next time, when she is loving well and wisely, you will be able to give a report.

L. George Dewar: The service that she is doing is saving the Department of Welfare all this money.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: (Remark inaudible).

L. George Dewar: Well now, the relations are a little difficult to figure out at times but there are quite a number.. . .(Laughter).

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: I think it is the same person I am thinking of. She told me you were there to see her.

L. George Dewar: Now these are a few of the problems that the Minister of Welfare has to deal with, and I hope that he will use more leniency, more generosity in dealing with these people that are actually in need, where there is pov and privation going on. It is a very terrible thing in this day and age that con itions like that should exist. Before I leave the Minister of Welfare I want to say a few words about parks, golf courses, and such incidentals. Now I am a little concerned about the matter of a new National Park in the rovince. As it is known an area in West Prince was designated as suitable for a ational Park, and the former ad- ministration offered the federal government three thousand acres of land if they would provide a National Park in that area. But for some strange unaccountable reason the mail didn’t go through and the Minister of Northern Affairs said he never got the letter, and it was one of the mysteries of present communications.

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