Legislative Assembly computer is doing several jobs within government. I might inform the members of the House that while it took three days by the Treasury Staff to make out all the pay cheques and keep the records of pay cheques — three days to do that job by hand — the job is now done in four hours by one machine. Much of the work of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles and many other departments of government will be fed into this machine such as improving the record keeping, and improving the provision of services and information to the public. Yesterday, Mr. Speaker , I perhaps went out of my way to review some of the statements of the Leader of the Opposition. Today things have calmed down a little bit, but there is one item that I hope may be helpful to the Leader of the Opposition. He has been planting a lot of scarecrows around the Province by suggesting that this present government is going to desecrate the Province, and we are going to clear every tree off the land, and the land is going to blow out to sea, and there will be nothing left. But before I get into this I see in the speech here of the Leader of the Opposition, which he gave on television on January 17th, he said, "Just take a walk through the Crown Public Buildings and look at some of the luxuriously equipped offices." I don't know whether this was boasting of his performance as former Leader of the government in this Province or whether he was criticising the present government. I can assure you, Mr. Speaker , that we could have done with much less luxuriously equipped offices than we were introduced to when we assumed office. But there they were — all with brand new furniture. Some Member : All in the Family Compact. Hon . Alexander B. Campbell : All in the Family Compact. Walter R. Shaw : In the Health Department? Hon . Alexander B. Campbell : And if it wasn't.... Walter R. Shaw : In the Health Department? Hon . Alexander B. Campbell : Most of it was ordered from the Family Com ¬ pact and delivered after we moved in, Mr. Speaker. Walter H. Shaw: Well that is a pretty cheap trick. That is an untrue state¬ ment Mr. Speaker , and I resent the implication that there was a Family Compact here. I know that only a person who doesn't value honesty and courtesy would make a statement of that kind. Hon . Alexander B. Campbell : Now, Mr. Speaker , I withdraw that because I don't want to get into a . . . . Walter R. Shaw : No you better not get into it. And your Minister behind you best agree with you too. Hon . Alexander B. Campbell : I understand ten percent of the furniture con¬ tracts were farmed out to someone else. Invited to come in and take ten percent of the business so that it wouldn't look too bad. That's the story there. What does the Leader of the Opposition now say as he goes about the Province ? Further on in his speech he says, "Incidentally, does this plan of the government to involve the increase of 400,000 more acres of productive farm land, is it the intention to clear our woodland, clear our swamps up, gravel pits and sand banks to get 400,000 acres of land suitable for production or to be rehabilitated. I am curious to know of it's location where are the land areas now located?'" The Deputy Minister of Agriculture in this Province for 25 years, leader of the government for seven years and he asks the question, "where is this land, where are we going to find it?" He suggests in this speech that we are going to have to clear the swamps, clear the gravel pits and clear the sand banks, and yesterday in his speech in this Legislature he told the public that if it wasn't around here then we would have to go out to the Northumberland Strait to find it. What reaction does it get? This gives the Editor of the Guardian of this morning, February 29th, occasion to go on and it was this fact, wrote the Editor, which gave points to Opposition Leader's criticism about the government's plan of clearing an additional 400,000 acres of land —60—