Legislative Assembly Wood Islands , a twenty-six acre island was acquired and cleaned up, the grass cut in the area in order to beautify the entrance at Wood Islands . The Devil's Punch Bowl: this twenty acre tract at South Granville surrounds a deep gorge which houses a lovely spring. This area is being improved as a tourist attraction. ; this park was taken over in November and has been im¬ proved under the Winter Works program, the main tow has been widened and length¬ ened and more gradual slopes were put on the hill. It has been operating very effic¬ iently during this winter season. This is another effort on behalf of the department to bring tourists to our Island during the off-season. The revenues from our Provincial Parks during 1964 was $8,174. During 1965 - $11,362. In 1966. . . . Frank Myers : Would the speaker permit a question? Hon . M. Lome Bonnell : Yes Sir. Frank Myers: Thank you. I listened very attentively to your remarks about Island Parks. What about the beautiful little park out at Victoria? Anything you are going to do about that, Sir? Hon . M. Lome Bonnell : I was planning, Mr. Speaker , on telling the honourable friend about that during the Budget, but this is not a park, Mr. Speaker , this is a picnic area, and we haven't made any decisions what to do about it yet because it is kind of hard to get at. But we certainly keep it clean, neat and tidy so the people in the area can use it, and as for further development of this area, this is a policy which has not been clarified as yet. The revenue as I say in 1964 was $8,174, in 1965 - $11,000, 1966 - $14,000 and last year $22,316. The Province continues a program of publicity and advertising to attract tour¬ ists to our province, along with our own provincial expenditure in co-operation with the Maritime Co-op Campaign in advertising, as a joint effort. The Canadian Gov¬ ernment Travel Bureau is spending close to $200,000 on TV commercials in the United States and another $150,000 in magazines and newspapers on behalf of our four provinces. Another venture which we have tried this year is a new program called " Calling" which covers four radio stations in the State of Florida , and reaches approximately ten million visitors who visit that State during the winter season. It is thought that besides the ten million visitors that it also reaches all the people of Florida , and with the new Federal Government policy in the United States where they are restricting tourist travel outside of this Continent that it would be a good venture on our behalf this year to attract those Americans, as well as our own " Calling" program. If this program should meet with success it will be carried on another year. Now, Mr. Speaker , I would like to say a few words concerning the Depart¬ ment of Welfare. According to a small newspaper item, which was in the Guardian the day after I tabled the Department of Welfare Report for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1967, I saw it was suggested that the Department of Welfare had over- expended. I would like to clarify this position because according to that report, which was tabled for the year ending March 31, 1967, we did have an overexpendi- ture of $2,369,000. However, as you will notice, this was for the year ending March 31, 1967 when the former government was in office. Now the former government did not put in the estimates for the year 1966-67 the amount necessary to pay the supplementary allowances of the Old Age Pensioners, the Old Age Assistance , the Disabled Person's Allowances, and the Blind Persons Allowances, which amounted to $25 a month or an expenditure of $2,450,641.92. This amount was not provided in our estimates hence this unexpected expenditure which gave the Department a deficit instead of allowing us a small surplus. Hon . Robert E. Campbell : That's the way they did all their business. —244—