Thursday, March 14, 1968 last year if we don't take some of the few suggested precautions that are handed out by all our fire departments in the Province, particularly during fire inspection week. But I do want to bring it to the attention of everyone that this is something that we should be constantly aware of and trying to prevent, particularly in our homes where there are children and other family members and so on. Fire figures are always staggering and I'm not going to quote statistics on them. A brief men¬ tion of water safety. This is a service provided by , was instituted through the here in the Province by Mrs. Evelyn Cudmore who has devoted you might say, a lifetime to this and the First Aid Service. Water safety is now avail¬ able to practically every community in Prince Edward Island . We have had over 10.000 children through to adults take courses per year in the last couple of years. I remember not too many years ago there were around 400 and some participated in the whole program in Prince Edward Island in one year and within, let's say, fifteen or sixteen years now, it has grown to this proportion. One thing I would like to say and I would hope that sometime through our physical fitness department or physical education that something might be able to be done to further implement more day camps. These day camps not only proved popular but it's a means of doing a little better job in water safety, particularly with children. They had them in the past year in different centres, Kings County, Queens. I think if this could get back to on some type of a regional basis, such as regional high schools, right across the Province the problem, then, of getting to every child would be solved. These things all cost money, I realize, and I hope that sometime in the future that we can start more day camps and put on a more extensive type training course than what has gone on in the past. There's one thing I would like to say about signs in water safety and I don't know whose department this is in or if it is a department of Gov¬ ernment or whether it's the responsibility of the people living in the area. We have places in this Province that look like beautiful spots to swim and are very, very hazardous and dangerous. I can think of one and I will state it which is at Tracadie Harbour where there was a life lost last year. There was a sign put up there and whether somebody had torn it down or whether it got knocked down accidently. I don't know; but that sign was removed. I know that it was put there because I saw it. A very dangerous current in that area and so on. I know Water Safety would be quite happy to provide any department that would like to take it on or any community that if any of you Members have an area within your own com¬ munity or within your own district and would like to have a sign put there, I'm sure that the Department of Highways have always co-operted with us one hundred per¬ cent in doing this, under Mr. Ferguson and under previous Governments,, Mr. Math- eson, and so on. Mr. Matheson . Minister of Highways, not the Premier, all of these men have given their co-operation to the fullest in providing any assistance in this way but they can't be going around this thousand mile of coast line looking for these spots. We, who live and walk and go around these places every day of our lives, we know where they are. Let's bring them to light so that these things can be taken care of. I do think, Sir, that with this co-operation from all that we fan eliminate some of this. Just a word on First Aid and then I would like to mention on water safety again when I speak about Provincial parks and I'm glad the Minis¬ ter's sitting here at present. The First Aid service provides first aid training to any interested group who so desire, providing there are fifteen or more persons inter¬ ested. During this past month and a half I've had the privilege of teaching about half of the course, up until the House opened at least, in the Morell Consolidated Elementary School. In this group we had a young man and young lady who were the Phys-Ed instructors there; we had the school principal, two ladies in the community and also about nine or ten of the bus drivers and there's one thing that I would like to say here that I think this should be compulsory, as well as their driver license, that every bus driver in Prince Edward Island be qualified in first aid before being hired. (Applause) We've had school buses stuck in snow banks over night. Danger of carbon monoxide poisoning. We've had them come upon the scene of an accident and some of them may have been involved in minor accidents as well. I think this is something that, may be, our Minister of Education could look into and ask that they be qualified. Now is the time, not next September, to put it in to effect when they have to go to work the next day. These courses take eighteen hours. It take setting up; it takes planning; I would hope that this will be a program in the future. It doesn't cost anything. Let's get it. First aid is also being taught now as part of our Health Program in the schools. I would like to thank the Department of Edu¬ cation for seeing fit to include it as part of their curriculum in health. I've heard —3.01—