Legislative Assembly reaching effect, improving effect too. The question is in the minds of a lot of people, who are the members of this group ? What are their terms of reference? When can we expect the report? Will the final report possibly coincide with the announcement of a general Provincial Election ? The only thing is, we'll have to wait and see, I suppose. Now, it's not my intention, Mr. Speaker , to prolong this debate. As I said in my opening remarks when thirty or more Members debate the same subject matter this is inclined to become a little stale. More so when the subject matter is stale in the first place. I wonder, Mr. Speaker , if I would be permitted to mention briefly the school tax issue ? It has been discussed by several former speakers. I looked in the Throne Speech for some proposed legislation to¬ wards it?: elimination but I fail to see any. School taxes are rising: and will continue to rise which reminds me of a article in one of the local farm magazines. The Family Herald, I believe it is, carries a news column. They very often compare rising: costs of living: in relation to what the farmer has to sell. He may end up his article by saying, "Today I bought a tire for the tractor or I bought a set of discs for the plow or what have you. It cost me X number of cans of milk". But at the present rate of high costs of operating schools and what have you, I might say that I paid my school taxes the other day. It cost a truck load of potatoes. I'm not com¬ paring what we have to paying school taxes. We can't expect to have the present type of school service we have and not have to pay for it but I just think I should remind the Premier and the Government that they made a big do in the last local election that school taxes would be done away with but so far they have made no effort, apparently, to fullfill this obligation. A few words on highways now. I'm getting to the end, through with my remarks. I should commend the Minister of Highways about his efforts in the past year. In the wet weather we had this year I knew he was having great problems getting roads built and at many times he had my sympathy. When he spoke on the Draft a short while ago I was happy to hear him outline some ground rules he intended to inject into the highway program such as starting dates of paving and finishing dates. I think he's very wise in making this move. Anyway, like last year, paving: with snow on the ground. Well, that just doesn't make sense so I hope he's successful in getting those ground rules across. Sometimes when you're paving roads or plan on paving roads, in the better judgement of the Minister, he would much rather put it off until next year but a little political pressure can be brought to bear. That road has to be done this year. While they'd have gone against his better judgement and do it. I know an area in the past year, not in my district but a neighboring district, a road that was rebuilt last year and the paving went on into the cold weather. Some of the fellows who worked on it, a spring hole area more or less, they dumped, I think it was, fourteen loads of asphalt before they could get over that particular hole. Now, this is one of the things where politics interferes and this, you get it from either sides, in particular personal cases so his suggestion that he's going to introduce some ground rules that they have to start not before a given time and finish before a given time. I think that's a move in the right direction because the cost of paving today is higher and it continues to rise and when we spend that much money we should try and g-et dollar value for dollar spent. Speaking of highways, I don't see the Minister in his seat but he would take note of it, I believe. I hope that he will get a reasonable allocation of the funds for his Department, especially in tourist provincial paved roads and if he gets his reasonable share, I hope, in turn we in the of Kings will get our reasonable share. That's all the good people of Third Kings will ask for, just their fair share. They're not a demanding people anyway, always fair and reasonable. Another thing I would like to draw to the attention of the Minister is the fact that there are still two sections of the 48 Road , that's the centre road half ways between the St. Peter 's Road on the north and the 49 Road on the south. There's still about eight miles, more or less, still unpaved. Then there's a section from Alley's Mills at Cardigan towards Head, 2 miles or so and then west from the to Mount Albion , another area of possibly six miles. This has been, more or less, a pet project of mine. The former administration did quite a lot to shorten that distance. I see it's down now to around about eight miles. If that was completed, Mr. Speaker , it would take a big load off both the old trunk roads, Rd. and the 49 Road. So I'm very serious when I suggest to the Minister of Highways that if you can do some¬ thing to shorten that distance, you'll be helping a lot of people and helping: to reduce the accident hazard on either the St. Peters Rd. or the 49 Road. Now, before con¬ cluding my few remarks I should congratulate the Ministers of the Crown for the —236--