Monday, April 24, 1967

in industry they do have some control over it, and thank heavens, or those figures would be much higher.

Mr. Speaker, I say that there is something that Government can do in assist- ing and directing and providing the proper education to come up with the proper attitudes for all our citizens. I think there is something that each and every one of the Members of this Legislature can do in participating fully and showing a real concern and interest to any family group, any community group, or district, or county or Provincial body that wants to take on something in safety. It will help to lessen the suffering and the costs of accidents and injury to the people of our Province. I hope that every Member here will try to do their utmost to support any program.

Before sitting down, Mr. Speaker, I would like to mention the work being done by the Provincial Safety Council, and they have been doing a terrific amount of work pertaining to Driver Education through the Highway Safety Committee. I would also like to commend the Red Cross, who over the years, have token the first and foremost lead of any organization or group here in the Province. Their workers, and the ones that do the work, are the Women’s Institutes, Catholic Women’s League, Girl Guides, Boy Scouts, Junior Farmers, 4-H Clubs, you name them, they all par- ticipate because they are all volunteers of that organization. There is one in- dividual in the Province that never, never in my mind has achieved the acclaim that she should have for the time, effort, and hours that she puts into safety, over and above her regular eight hour day. That is Mrs. Cudmore, Red Cross (Applause). I have worked very closely with her and I know that she puts in more hours in one week, after hours, on water safety, first aid, home safety, home and farm safety, safety pertaining to poisoning, you name it. She is Mrs. Safety and I think she de- serves an awful lot of credit, and all the volunteers that work with her and carry out these program.

I would hope, Sir, that in the very near future, once again we would have life guard service at our Provincial Parks. I would hope that our Minister of Agri- culture will encourage any agricultural groups or body to participate to the full- est and make sure when purchasing farm equipment that it has all the safety fea- tures that are available to us through the many different outlets. I hope and pray that Prince Edward Island will not take the lead again across Canada for the highest accident rate and number of fatalities per population. It has soared far too high now, and I think, with the co-operation and proper attitudes of every- body concerned, we can make Prince Edward Island a much safer place to live in.

Thank you.

(Applause) M. Alban Farmer: (Sixth Queens)

Mr. Speaker, I would like to extend to you my congratulations to the appoint- ment of Deputy Speaker of this Legislature. I want also, at the same time, to express those to the regular Speaker, who is not in the Chair this evening.

When we left here last year we had some thoughts that robably the man who is Speaker this year would be gracing a seat in the Senate of anada. However, that did not happen and I am sure if he had his choice, and after his experiences of this year, ’probably he would have put on a harder drive for that particular job in Ottawa. I don t think it would be quite as arduous as the one that he has to fulfill.

In addition to that, I also wish to compliment the Mover and Seconder of the Address and Reply. Both these speakers made a splendid effort, and while one of them was a new man, he has a good deal of experience in administration and officiating at similar procedures as we have here. We expected a good response from him and we were not disappointed. The other gentleman is longer in the service here and while he doesn’t always participate to a great extent in debates he made a commendable effort in respect to Seconding this Address and Reply.

Now, Mr. Speaker, the Speech from the Throne has provoked a variety of re- actions. There is a great deal of wondering as to who is actually the author of the

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