Legislative Assembly Speaker, I think the Government was not only defeated in First Kings, it was literally laughed out of office. As I saw it, the Government was in about the same position as Humpty Dumpty who sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, and all the king's horses and all the king's men couldnt pick Humpty Dumpty up again. (Laughter) (Applause) Preston D. MacLure : (Third Kings), Mr. Speaker , first I would like to con¬ gratulate you on your office of this Court of the People, and I am sure you will con¬ duct the business of this Court in a fair and just manner without fear or favour from anyone. I would like to congratulate, Mr. Speaker , the Mover and Seconder of the Speech from the Throne, and to make a couple of notations. I am representing the District of Third Kings. I am very pleased to represent those people and to have their trust put in me for this office. I am also one of two new Members on the Opposition side of the House. (Applause) I am also one of two, of course, that have sat on the Conservative side of the House, the other being W. Chester S. MacLure some years ago. (Applause) First I would like to say that I am pleased to see that the Queen Mother is to visit us during this Centennial Year, being of great significance as this is Centennial Year of Canada , and I see that we are to have other distinguished guests in this com¬ ing year. Now, being the Queen Mother is to visit here, wc should all make an effort, each and every one of us, in the Government and out of the Government, to see that all the elderly people and the children have an opportunity to view this stately woman when she visits our Province. This may be quite a problem, as it is a very short time, but we should make every effort to do this and let all those that are able to take care of themselves see if they too could help the others to view this great event. I would suggest that we should all get to-gether and make arrangements as soon as possible to have vantage points where she is passing that all the elderly citizens and the young children view this lady on this occasion, being this is Centennial Year. There maybe not very many of us around when another hundred years rolls around. Now, the next item that we come to in the Speech from the Throne is this "White Paper". I have read it fairly thoroughly, not probably as thoroughly as I should have read it, and I have not got the command of the English language as some of our better educated people here, hut I would say that we have been handed a mess of pottage, a bowl of meat stew without any meat in it, of white fish with very little backbone, but I hope it will turn out better than it looks at the present time. Now, the arrangements with the Federal Government seems to be a very bright picture here in this Speech from the Throne, but we hope that it will continue to be as bright as it is pictured here. But I doubt it very much as I have something to my fur¬ ther along in a little notation here that I have from a Guardian of March 17th. So I will refer to that later. Now, the next concerns Mr. Campbell , but he was as deserving of it as anyone of this position as to the Executive Council, but I doubt the wisdom of this move on the part of the Government, being as we hear so much about the bills on the part of the Government that have not been paid and of this added expense which we hope will not be too great, I do not know the exact amount, but anyway there are people working in this Province for very little money at the present time. Some are making less than $2,000.00 per year which we were assured when this Government came into office, we were assured fully before the Government came into office in the election campaign, that anyone, everyone, man or woman, would be earning at least $1.26 per hour. This Government has been in office for going on nine months and we have seen no great amount of this being carried out. Now, the next is concerning the water rights or the mineral rights surrounding the Province. This is a great concern to us because we should have all the mineral rights that we can get. But I am afraid in this Province they are not very great but this should be a great protection. I will try not to criticize the Government where I think criticism is not due, but there are some of those statements I do take exception to. But I will try not to criticize where criticism is not due. If I am wrong in this, Mr. Speaker , I stand corrected. Now, in relation to the Confederation Center right next door here, this I think is a great asset to the Province being as it was built for Centennial project of all Can- —186—