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Walter R. Shaw: Oh; You must be staying awake at night with this Dorgan fellow. (Laughter) I never saw a person that was so concerned about one man down in his district called Dorgan.

Honourable M. Lorne Bonnell: Don’t you know him?

Walter R. Shaw: Mr. Minister of Health, you had better keep quiet. I might mention something that will hit you. No, I won't do it. I regard your feeling so I will keep that quiet. Now, let me see, that Minister of Public Works over there; I will have to say something about him by the way.

Some Member: Good man; Good man.

Walter R. Shaw: He gave a T.V. address after he came in and said I was shocked to find that we were behind in our appropriations, I don’t know. million and a half or something like that. He must have remained in a state of s ock be- cause naturally you would expect that if he found that deplorable condition, he would have immediately curtailed the building of roads, but what did he do? He went out on his own, he rushed pell me]! out to the country without any tenders or anything else called. This was the man that was so fussy about having tenders called. I remember him espatiating on this side of the House, and yet he put in about twenty- five miles on his own after he found that too much had been done. But he can- celled out and broke the contracts of the previous Government with people that were is: bad need of those roads, and it was a strange thing that most of it was in my

istrict.

Honourable George J. Ferguson: You got more than your share. You got more than your share.

Walter R. Shaw: He cut out and I’m telling you. . . . Some Member: Did he cut out your (inaudible)?

Walter R. Shaw: He cut out one road and another road that we started in the program three years ago.

Honourable Keir Clark: It took you a long time building it.

Walter 8. Shaw: And we are trying to get this finished to open that country up. He cut out a road through to Emyvale and he has demands this year to get this road. Even the tractors are getting stuck in there, and that is a thickly por- ulated area. Then he went out and he built a road where there were few peop e, and without any hestitancy at all to see if the base was right, he planked the pave- ment down. Then he went out into another area and he planked down another mile. He never did anything down on the Victoria shore there for tourist prospects, but he opened a road away out beyond, then a wonderful piece of art. He certainly re- mained in a continuous shock for a long time because those extra twenty-five miles that he put in would cost up to a million dollars. Mr. Speaker, that's the fellow that was so concerned with the roads and he said another thing; "When I get in, I am going to see that roads are properly adjusted and allocated to each part of the province." (Applause)

Hnourable George J. Ferguson: You will get your share to.

Walter R. Shaw: I want to tell you, Mr. Premier, you had better not cla too gddgnli; sometimes the figures here will sting those hands of yours without hfiting e es .

Here is the record. Now, let us see, this might hold my Honourable friend from First Prince, from 1949 to 1958 you got twenty-wo tmiles up there.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Oh; that’s terrible.

Walter R. Shaw: It is terrible, now just wait a minute, from 1960 to 1966 you got seventy miles, now what do you think of that?

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