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It supplements the regular accommodations booklet and singles out farm homes for special attention. By equiping their homes for the acceptance of tourists, farm fam- ilies can create an important new source of revenue and at the same time make new friends for themselves and Prince Edward Island. We are also producing a revised tour book and are considering" publishing a small leaflet about our golf courses. When I talk about our advertising, maybe, Mr. Speaker, I should pass along the booklet which shows the different ads which we are running in our papers this year. I will pass it to the Members so they can look at them. The red one is the one we had in our papers last year so you can compare it with this one. They say that the first impresgions are lasting. Therefore. it is our plan to dress up the entrance to our Province at Borden and at Wood Islands. This is a long range plan which started last year with the creation of a park at Wood Islands and will continue this year with further improvement right on the terminal itself. It is also possible that we will be able to expand communications at this important terminal by extending our two-way radio coverage to include an installation on the pier at Caribou. This will be studied early this season and, if feasible, will be considered further. I would like to say in elaboration at this point that we find at Caribou and Tormentine a lot of tourists are waiting in line for three or four hours and we thought by having a two~way radio right at the pier these people could assure themselves of accommo- dations while they’re on the other side waiting to get over. Probably if they were assured of a place to sleep they would wait in line for the next boat or the boat that they could get across on. Otherwise. we find many times that the tourists are there, they’re scared it’s getting too late, they turn away and go back where they came from. We intend to encourage and assist those interested in the provisions of new attractions for the Province. Last year we succeeded in developing tuna fishing. one of the most lucrative of the many facets of sports fishing. This year we will join with our sister province of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in a program aimed at exploring our coastlines for other possible new courses of sports fishing. A noted fisherman and a sports columnist from the United States will move in to the Atlantic area and in Prince Edward Island this summer with personnel and equipment to carry out exploratory work. This is a joint venture between the Maritime Provinces and the Federal Government. Even if no fish are found we will benefit from the result- ing publicity to be part of the project. We will also request the Department of High- ways to properly mark such scenic routes as the Kings Byway which stretches from the southern tip of Kings County right through to East Point. This will add ano- ther interesting motor tour to match the Lady Slipper Drive in Prince County. Other such scenic drives will also be explored this coming year. Again I would solicit the support and co-operation of all of our Members in this worthwhile undertaking. Last year we arranged to have our main information bureaus opened earlier in the season and remain open much longer than usual. We intend to carry on with that policy again in 1968. It is our intention to have our Aulac Bureau open on or before the 24th day of May. The same will apply at Wood Islands and we will start the whole temporary summer employment staff to work during the last week in May. What we will be aiming at is providing service where necessary from May 15th to October Ist; also we’ll extend our policy of hiring French speaking personnel for as many as possible of our seasonal information bureau counters. Also we intend to continue this year with having a piper at the boat at Wood Islands and a piper at the boat at Borden or at Albany to amuse the tourists while they are waiting in line. Now, under our parks division, I would like to state that we are going to carry out a pro- gram whereby, as I tried to say last evening, we are going to start a recreation complex in Kings County, in Prince County and in Central Queens. The major part of this tourist recreational complex will be in Prince County and Kings County with a minor, or not quite so major, complex in Central Queens.

Leo F. Rossiter: What’s it going to consist of?

Hon. M. Lorne Bonnell: This complex might well consist of a golf course; it might consist of a marina.

W'alter R. Shaw: A what? Hon. M. Lorne Bonnell: A marina. Walter R. Shaw: That’s a sheep isn’t it?

Hon. M. Lorne Bonnell: Yacht clubs and so forth. It could consist of swimming

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