Thursday, April 6, 1967 the province. Of course I believe that this is a very important part of our economic development. I do know, from having promoted perhaps a very small industry in the Western part of the province or helped people to promote it, that there are a great many difficulties involved. There is a lot of redtape to get around, and there are all kinds of problems that you run into. I refer to a small industry that was developed in the CLeary area with respect to the production of carrots. The Indus¬ trial Loan Board authorised a loan to these people to get going and they went to the bank for interim financing for the project and I was very much surprised to find that the bank turned them down in the matter. I had to take it up with the General Manager of the Bank in Toronto , in order to jret the matter straightened out for them. It was a very, very strange situation that they had an Order-in-Council stat¬ ins: that they would receive the money at a certain development of the project and still the bank would not agree to give them interim financing. This is just an ex¬ ample of the difficulties that people run into who are interested in developine an industry. Of course these people had the advice of various departmental peoole. They even visited people in other provinces that were in this business and still they had a great deal of difficulty getting established. The first year they planted the crop too late and it didn't develop in the way it should and the crop was light, and they had difficulty in making a profit. The next year they corrected that mistake and they ran into a very, very dry summer — two years ago — so that a irreat deal of the seed did not germinate and again the crop was not what, it should have been, and they had difficulty in getting a proper production. They also had trouble in the Fall with the storage being too warm for this particular vegetable, and they cor¬ rected that by putting in a cold storage system, and also providing for irrigation of the crop during the summer should it become too dry. I am very pleased to say that last fall they had a tremendous crop and anybody that had the privilege of visiting that farm and seeing the production could not help but be amazed at the production that they had. I was told that they had twenty thousand bushels of carrots off seven* teen acres of land, which is a tremendous production. I even went out to the field one day to watch them digging and you could hardly believe that land could be so full of the crop. It reminded me of an expression that they were as "thick as the hair on a dog's back"! But onyway they had a tremendous crop of carrots and they havent got all the troubles ironed out yet They had a little trouble with putting the carrots into storage without being washed. Apparently the red soil has a ten- deney to discolour the carrots somewhat and it wasn't as acceptable in the super¬ market trade as the light coloured one. I am pleased to say that they are on sale hers in the local store, in a local store still and that they are out-selling, bv far, the imported Texas carrots which were right alongside at the present time. I just bring this up to show all the different problems and difficulties that anybody who embarks on a new project in industry will run into. I am not surprised that there are great problems in the projects that have been discussed here. Compared with this project it was really a tremendous undertaking and I think it was a very com¬ mendable undertaking inasmuch as it envisaged the development of one of the great¬ est seaports on the seaboard, and one which has languished in idleness for too many years. I am sure that the pioneers down there, DeRoma and the Mac - Donalds , must have been sighing for people who would see the possibilities and potentials of that area and bring it back to life with the industry of which it is capable. We will cetarinly look forward with interest to the explanation and elabora¬ tion of the Rural Development Comprehensive program. I, of course, had some knowledge of this previous to the change of Government. Planning had been going on with respect to this and we will look forward to what steps the present adminis¬ tration will take in this regard. We notice that the Government intends to appoint a Division of Youth. I might say that we all appreciate the efforts that are being made today on behalf of youth, and the efforts that have been made in the last few years. I take particular pride in what we did in the former administration on behalf of youth in the matter of edu¬ cation. A great many young men and young women received a greater opportunity to receive an education and to benefit themselves in this way. The efforts that were made for industrial development were also calculated to keep many of our young people here on the Island to give them opportunities to work and make a living. The physical education development, I think, was also a —126—