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SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1922. a) 1 4 Because Chippawa development costs have exceeded last year's estimate by $14,000,000, Hon. Dougall Carmichael, Min-- ister without portfolio in the Drury Government, has handed to Premier Drury his resignation from the Hydro--electric Power Commission. After statistical review of Chippawa expenditures in the Legislature yesterday Col. Carmichael announced the latest expectation of cost for five units to be $69,000,000. | "I gave those figures last spring in good faith," he said. lreferring to the estimate of $55,000,000 he 'had brought for-- | ward in 1921. "When it came to my attention early last autumn I # ithat these figures were liable, or were sure, to be exceeded, 1 | brought it to the attention of the Government, and I told the Prime Minister that my Commission had either been inefficient ~\___| or had been dishonest in dealing with the Government in regard | to this development." |fAinish the work within the estimate > ss lthat had been given. I would hot Withdraws Word "Dishonest. wish at all to say anyone had been k | _ Later on in the discussion Hon. Mr. qishonest in the ordinary sense of 'Carmichae!l made an important COT--| the term." rection in his statement, withdraw-- Hon. Thonmas Crawford--Does my ing the word '"dishonest."' To Hon.:'nonorable friend mean to imply that . |\G. H. Ferguson he said that he per-- they were cooked estimates, and notl |haps should have said '"misleading." |according to the facts? | _ _And later again he said: "I should Hon. Mr. Carmichael --Either tha,t! \not have used the word dishonest. I ) or eise the estimates were insuM--| lshould have used auite a différent | njent prepared. } word. What I meant to infer is this: that the commission, in passing these| Drury Defers Action. estimates year by year, and &iViNE| -- premier Drury, in a brief State-- estimates, had not been SufficieNntly | ment to the House on the matter, frank, so that the Government P@0 |indicated the determination of the been led on from year to Year t0}| {opvernment to find out What WAS have an impression that the work wrong. in connection with Chippawa o would cost so much, when in reality t estimates and _ expenditures. He ; it was not intended, perhaps, to even | deemed Hon. Mr. Carmichael's --