Legislative Assembly

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Probably one of the greatest honours to come to our district was the winning of the Rural Beautification championship by Mr. and Mrs. John Carew of Green- vale. I am sure John and his wife, and also to his family, deserve a great deal of credit for the manner in which they went about winning this, painting up their barns, and the house, and everything in general. It was really a beautiful looking farm and it is a credit to any community and to our Province, I’m sure. To them I would like to express our congratulations.

One passing remark before I leave the District, and this might be a subtle hint, possibly to my friend, the Minister of Highways, but due to our location, our National Park, our beaches, not only on the north side at the National Park, but also on our south shore, the Rocky Point Park there, our Strathgartney Park, the lovely beaches around Argyle shore, Canoe Cove, Rocky Point, Rice Point, and the south shore of Cumberland as it is known. We need roads to take people to these parts, and with the increasing number each year, I'm sure we will get all the sympathy in the world from the Minister of Highways when it comes to request- ing the building of roads.

Now, as I mentioned earlier, I want to speak on something I feel touches every one of us, it is non-political I would hope, and I would hope it would always be kept that way. But as everything else, I do know that politics might have to enter into it and can be an asset to it; that is the word “Safety". There are many safety programs being carried on here in the Province at present, there are many more that possibly could be and should be instituted. I do not have the answers, but I can tell you many of the causes. We have facts and figures, and we know that figures don’t lie; but sometimes liars figure, but there are no liars in the Safety Programs

and I can assure you on the statistics you hear on safety will show possibly the more rosier side of it.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: There are no liars in here either!

J. Sinclair Cntcliffe: That’s right, Mr. Premier. All one has to do is pick up the Patriot today and just look at thirty-one fatalities in the week end; that is across Canada, none in Prince Edward Island, thank heavens for that. Loss is heavy in auto accidents. Cars heavily damaged in week-end accidents. Rescue nine- teen, this was in Ontario, from fire. Fire, highway accidents, there are the small ones really here in our Province. There is one part here in the paper, a very small paragraph, that is an answer to the most of them, and that is a little section here that says “First Aid Contest” which was held on Saturday. We do know that First Aid trained persons have fewer accidents than those who are untrained,, the com- petition of which I had the privilege of heading up on Saturday included fifteen teams from all over the Province. I presented them with problems in this competi~ tion that I also presented to the International Rescue and First Aid in 1965 at Atlantic City, New Jersey, with identical problems. Under identical conditions the team that won the Provincial Championship Saturday would have finished third in World Championships had they been in the competition in 1965 at Philadelphia. This, I believe, is one lever of encouraging more people to take this training so more safety can be rubbed off on them, and on their neighbors, on families, or their communities, or so on. This might be part of an answer to the safety problem.

I would like to break down the different phases of safety and time does not permit to go into all of them, but very briefly go into a few. The first which comes to mind is in “Home Safety” and I think the ke note here is education. The groups, Women’s Institutes, Catholic Women's League, ey are the ones that come to mind, as well as Legion, 4-H clubs, Junior Farmers, any kind of group devoting a little more time to talking of accident prevention. I think it would be well suggested that in school groups, fire departments, and so on, they could utilize this as part of the program every once in a while. I know it has been taken advantage of in the past, but you can’t go too far in this education towards safety.

We are told that about two-thirds of all accidents do occur in and about the home. I will give you a quick example. In 1964 we had eighty-six deaths here in Prince Edward Island due to accidents. That year we had thirty-two deaths on the highway, this is awful. What about the other fifty-four deaths that were due to accidents; fourteen from falls in the home, five from poisoning, children getting