by the then President of the Company, Mr. H. L. Hill and the local Branch Manager, Mr. J. A. Scribner.

When this propane plant was put into operation 1, Francis MacQuar— rie was hired on as a Manager of an appliance store which was to be opened in the Summerside Area sometime in the not too distant future. As I was the only employee on staff in the Summerside area at that time my duties were to pump tank cars of propane gas, fill cylinders for the Charlottetown Branch and in general look after the operation of the plant.

Sometime early in July of 1955 a building was rented on Spring St., in Summerside and an appliance store was opened and a part time employee was hired to operate the plant. At this time we had no propane customers in the Summerside area and if my memory serves me correct a tank car of propane gas would last for somewhere between one and a half months. Today this same tank car of propane gas lasts us two to three days.

In 1962 the Management of the company decided to introduce a bulk delivery system to commercial accounts within the Summerside and Charlottetown areas and a 2500 US. gallon tank truck was purchased which was equipped with a printed meter which registered the amount of gallons delivered to each customer. Then as business expanded it be- came necessary to install larger and more up to date pumping equipment at our plant. At this time a special pump was installed on the east end of the storage tank to be used exclusively for filling bulk trucks. The plant

at New Annan is operated by Keir Duggan of Kensington.

Then in 1968 it was decided that all customers serviced out of the Summerside store would be serviced with a bulk delivery system which is the most up to date system in operation today. At the present time we are delivering bulk propane out of the Summerside operation to Ken- sington and surrounding districts, Borden, Crapaud and surrounding dis- tricts and as far west as O’Leary and its surrounding districts, and we are delivering to somewhere around 2000 customers.

Then in 1969 it was decided that customers serviced out of the Charlottetown store would be changed over to a bulk delivery system which meant that a tank truck would have to be provided for that area

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