Legislative Assembly eminent should be commended for making a little over-expenditure on Provincial paving, because these people at the present time who have been living on these 4ht roads, travelling through the mud, getting stuck with their automobiles appreciate the fact that a Government might spend a little more on Provincial paving. We hsve a million dollars there, but where was the big item? This was part of the coat of electing the present Government to office. The two million dollars that they 0#ar- ezpended on welfare, this was an election promise cost. This was the largest Wan in the whole amount and it can be laid directly at the door of the present Preatttr, because he was the one that formulated and made this promise in the first psM«. That cost the Welfare Program $2,000,000.00. Then there was a modest increase in education of $300,000.00. Honourable Alexander B. Campbell : Would you permit a question? L. George Dewar : Certainly, yes. Honourable Alexander B. Campbell : While I assume full responsibility for hav¬ ing initiated the idea of payments to senior citizens, and while this did invite heavy financial commitments to the Province, yet you are also blaming us for having spent this money in the first instance. This programme was well underway by the time we had the opportunity to be sworn in as a Government. L. George Dewar : I am not blaming the Premier for having spent the money at all, I am just pointing out that when he tries, or the Provincial Treasurer, or any Member of the Government opposite, when they try to lay the blame on the former administration for this amazing, frightening increase in the net debt, that it wasn't the responsibility of the former administration, that it was directly the respon¬ sibility of the present administration. Whether the Premier should be commended or criticized for having made that promise, we will leave for the people to decide. Honourable Alexander B. Campbell : But you sent out the cheques. L. George Dewar : Well, we felt we should carry on the affairs of the Govern¬ ment while we had responsibility for them and we did just that. There was an in¬ crease of a million dollars spent on agriculture, this was probably a good thing, although we are still wondering exactly where all that money went and we will be asking numerous questions when the estimates come up to try and find out where all this extra money went that was spent on agriculture, and whether it was real genuine agricultural expenditure or whether it was a lot of "window dressing" that was going on in the Department of Agriculture. I think the Minister of Agriculture is going to have some questions to answer when he sits over there in the hot seat and the estimates are going through. As I said, there was a modest expenditure of an extra three hundred thou¬ sand on education, and of course a considerable of this had to do with another election promise with respect to free school books, which we are enjoying at the present time. There were other expenditures of a million dollars, miscellaneous, small items, miscellaneous of a million dollars extra, some of which I think shook! bear considerable scrutiny. I think some of that should not have been required to have been expended if the present administration had looked after the affairs of the Province in a little more careful way. The amazing part was. after all the pro¬ mises, and I am sorry to see the Minister of Labour is not in his seat, but after all promises .... M. Alban Farmer : There he is, come back here boy. L. George Dewar : All the great things that were going to be done for labour in this Province, how the wage rate was going to go up to $1.25 per hour and we were going to have a full time Minister of Labour and there was going to be a new rapproachement between labour and the employer, and so on, and so forth. Honourable J. Elmer Blanehard : There is; there is. L. George Dewar : And we find the most amazing thing, that in spite of all these increases that have occurred, that the estimate of what the former Minister of Labour was going to spend on labour was under-spent by $200,000.00. a most amaafaaf figure. I could hardly believe that could happen with a full time Minister of Labour