Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms (Mr. Garry Clark): His Honour the Lieutenant Governor.

His Honour W. Yvon Dumont, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Manitoba, having entered the House at 4:07 p.m. and being seated on the throne, Madam Speaker addressed His Honour the Lieutenant Governor in the following words:

Madam Speaker: May it please Your Honour:

The Legislative Assembly, at its present session, passed a bill, which in the name of the Assembly, I present to Your Honour and to which bill I respectfully request Your Honour's Assent:

Bill 67, The Manitoba Telephone System Reorganization and Consequential Amendments Act; Loi concernant la réorganisation de la Société de téléphone du Manitoba et apportant des modifications corrélatives.

Mr. Clerk (William Remnant): In Her Majesty's name, His Honour the Lieutenant Governor doth assent to this bill.

Hon. W. Yvon Dumont (Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Manitoba): Madam Speaker and members of the Legislative Assembly, the work of the Second Session of the Thirty-Sixth Legislature has now been completed.

I wish to commend the members for their faithful attention to their duties, including many hours devoted to consideration of bills and Estimates, both in the House and in committee. I convey to you my appreciation of your concern for the public interest and for the general welfare of our province. I thank you for providing the necessary sums of money for carrying on the public business. It will be the intention of my ministers to ensure that these sums will be expended with both efficiency and economy by all departments of the government.

In relieving you now of your present duties and declaring the Second Session of the Thirty-Sixth Legislature prorogued, I give you my best wishes and pray that under the guidance of Divine Providence our province may continue to provide the things which are necessary for the health, the happiness and the well-being of our people. Merci.

Hon. Rosemary Vodrey (Minister of Justice and Attorney General): It is the will and pleasure of His Honour the Lieutenant Governor that this Legislative Assembly be prorogued until it shall please His Honour to summon the same for the dispatch of business, and the Legislative Assembly is accordingly prorogued.

His Honour was then pleased to retire.

God Save the Queen and O Canada! were sung.