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ures here just what happened here. We know that in the City of Charlottetown that the social assistance was $69,000 with a population of some twenty-two thousand people, and I notice in Summerside, represented by, I guess there are two Liberals there, is there, or is there one?

Hon. RobErt E. Campbell: You should know. Henry W. Wedge: Sixty-five thousand. Walter R. Shaw: Oh, dear, dear, oh, oh, oh!

Henry W. Wedge: So we spend as much money in Summerside as we do in all of Charlottetown. I don’t know but it seems to me that there is something wrong. There is something wrong with these figures.

Hon. T. Earle Hickey: Who administers it in Summerside?

Henry W. Wedge: Well I don’t know.

Hon. T. Earle Hickey: Who administers it in Summerside? Who is it? Henry W. Wedge: But what is 10%.

Hon. T. Earle Hickey: It is the Town of Summerside, though.

Henry W. Wedge: I mean is the Treasury Department seeing where this big amount of money is going? Are they checking in the Charlotttown Bureaus and see what is happening there? Well, I mean, they should.

Walter R. Shaw: No checks.

Henry W. Wedge: Because how do we know that John Jones tax bill is not paid, his light bill is paid, and he is receiving that much money in the towns and cities, and they are starving the people in the country. There is something wrong. (Applause) There is something wrong.

“'alter R. Shaw: Pure starvation.

Henry W. Wedge: I think that I would have the auditor go up there and have a look at things and see what is going on and in the Charlottetown Bureau and see if he can get an answer. There may be nothing wrong, I don’t know. But when we look at that figure $65,000 and $69,000 in these two towns it just doesn’t seem to click.

Hon. Gordon Bennett: What period of time is covered here? Henry W. Wedge: A year.

Hon. Gordon Bennett: What date, Sir?

L. George Dewar: First District is a piker alongside of that. Walter R. Shaw: You ought to be shelling out up there. Henry W. Wedge: From April first, a full year up to the. . .. Hon. Gordon Bennett: April 1, 1966 was it?

Henry W. Wedge: April 1, 1966 to March 31, 1967.

Hon. Gordon Bennett: I understand, Mr. Speaker, that these payments commenced on April 1, 1966....

Henry W. Wedge: Yes, April 1, 1966 and ended on March 31, 1967. The thing may be all right, I don’t know. But it strikes me funny when you get a person 63 years of age, a single man coming in half soused, and he wants to charge something, and you ask him, “Where are you working?” and he says now I am getting welfare. “How much are you getting?” $75.00 a month, $75.00 a month for one man living in Summerside when you pay $60.00 a month to a man that has six children.

Hon. T. Earle Hickey: Give that gentleman’s name who was soused and went to your. .

Henry W. Wedge: Well, I wouldn’t want to give it in here, I don’t think it is right on the floor of the House.

Hon. T. Earle Hickey: Will you give it to me after?

Henry Wedge: Yes, sure. —200—-—