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(9) Reorganize the Mortgage Corporation on lines similar to the State Advances Department. The Corporation has been purchased by the State. The new regulations and extended loan procedure have been inaugurated. (10) Maintain the guarantees of the Public Service Superannuation System. The system is still operating and it is proposed to remove the anomalies next year. Steps will be taken later in the session to remove some of the injustices suffered by members of the Public Service who were compulsorily retired on actuarial pensions. (11) Restore the " cuts " made in wages and salaries. They have been restored. A record, Mr. Chairman, worthy of some of our earlier statesmen, but it is not enough—legislation is insufficient —much work has still to be done. The accomplishments will not be recognized until later. We may succeed, we may fail —I think we will succeed. Ido know that in the words of a great Church leader, " Hard indeed is the task set before us, and well we know that from this side and that, from the higher social classes and from the lower very many difficulties and obstacles will present themselves to be overcome; but we will not for all that lose heart, nor allow ourselves to be turned from our resolutions."

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