Legislative Assembly ing. There are some features regarding the apprenticeship training that we regret very much were discontinued under the new fiscal arrangements with the Federal Government. The Province received a certain amount of money to take care of our vocational training and apprenticeship training and I have had a number of com¬ plaints from students who previously were assisted up to an amount of $600 to take vocational training, apprenticeship training courses in the other provinces where we were unable here to provide. This was discontinued and it has caused a great hard¬ ship on these young people who are anxious to complete their studies. I trust that the Department will give this matter another look because I think it is very import¬ ant, particularly if we do not have the facilities or the number of students 'to follow certain types of training. I think assistance should be made available to these students to attend other schools in Canada . I want to sav a few words also on bousiner. We were pleased to see that the Minister of Health in charge of housing plans to re-activate co-operative housing in this Province. Co-operative housing was started by the previous Government and I think that the proiects that were carried out were very successful but this program did have its faults like every other program. I think one of the biggest faults was that the groups who were interested in these projects were too large and I believe these should be confined to approximately six young men who intend constructing under the co-op housing plan. I think these smaller groups get along better and work better together and from the exnerience we had in Summerside with some twenty people who were in¬ terested in this we found that there was confusion and it made it very difficult for some to complete with these homes. There is another feature that I had hoped would be chanced under the present regulations, to extend the term of these mort¬ gages due to the high cost of construction. Construction is increasing at the rate of 15r/r per year and unless something is done to assist these people these homes are going to run beyond their means and the only solution that I can see is to extend the twenty or twenty-five year term or mortgage to possibly forty years which would make it more feasible, particularly for these low wage earners. I was pleased to see the home for special care at Alberton and Montague finally completed. This was on the original program that we had laid out and I am pleased that the pew Government has carried this out because I know now that they're completed and I understand completely occupied. It is proving to them that there was a great need in this Province for this type of special care, particularly for our elderly people. I notice also that plans are being prepared for a 500 bed nursing home in Charlotte- town. I just wonder whether this is possibly a little bigger than what we would need and whether we are defeating the original purpose of having these homes spread throughout the Island so that our elderly people would be closer to their families and relative and friends who visit them of toner as for many years we carried on with the nursing homes in Charlottetown . Some of these people were seventy and seventy-five miles from their relatives and very few of them had visitors throughout the year. It would appear to me that, if there is a need for 500 extra beds in this Province, and I don't doubt that there is a need because the three units now in operation have certainly proved that there was a need, whether it wouldn't be better to, possibly, spread these out again. Summerside certainly, with a waiting list, I understand, of some fifty, sixty or seventy people. It is impossible to get in there within the next six months. This unit certainly should be expanded and possibly a few more beds could be put in to a new home in Charlottetown . I am not opposed to building a home for special care in Charlottetown . I certainly think that there is a great need for it because too long did we carry on with the facilities that we had in Charlottetown for these people and I think with the modern methods of care for the sick today you also need modern quarters. I am also pleased to see that the housing authority has finally made arrangements to make a start with the low rental housing. Some thirty units, I understand, will be constructed this coming summer. I think these, no doubt, will be needed in Charlottetown and Summerside , particularly for the larger families who require three and four bedrooms. Possibly Summerside may be in a little different situation today with the anticipated loss of some five hundred families with the phasing out of the Neptune set-up at the air¬ port. We expect to lose some five hundred families and if the Federal Government comes through with the replacement I understand this will give us an extra three hundred so it would appear that some two hundred rental spaces will be available for the local people in the Summerside area. I also understand that there are some four hundred rented apartments and houses in the Summerside area and it will cer¬ tainly disturb the people that are in real estate. It will take some time to have these —196—