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|ROOM FOR FARMERS / t ________________--_--w___,. omm rnmmmmmmmemsmmmcmes Controller Foster Advises Them to Buy Motor Trucks Minister of Public Works Says Good Roads Have Direct Influence on Cost of Living--No Motor License | Fees to Municipalities, ' | Roads, ancient and modern, roads | of peace and roads of*®war--all these came within the purview of the On-- tario Good Roadsg Association at its 4Annual meeting in York County Build-- | ings yesterday. Controller Foster gave the Association the benefit of | his observations while travelling in 'Great Britain and Europe, and com-- | mended the durability of the old | Roman roads. Major 'C. L. Kennedy save an interesting account of the process of road--making behind the lineg in France and Flanders. Hon. F. G. Diarmid, Minister of Public Works and Highways, reviewed the | past, present and future of road build-- | Ing in Ontario. ' Influence Cost of Living, | "Good roads have a direct influence | upon the cost o# living," declared Hon. F. G. MacDiarmid. "Good roads erfable the farmer to place his pro-- Aluce in the market in a better con-- dition, because it has not to pass through go many hands. Four coun-- ties have come into the highways sys-- tem, but twelve or fourteen have yvet to come in. I believe that a system of Provincial highways is a develop-- ment of the future, and the Govern-- ment will be prepared to assume a | substantial portion of the cost. The | revenue from auto taxation for 1916 amounted to $650,000, and will be $750,000 for the present year; in a few years' time the revenue from this, source will be over a million dollat' There is a feeling in some quarters that auto fees should go to the separ-- ate municipalities; I want to say thasg such a proposal would imperil the whole good roads movement in On. tario." Hamilton HWighway Disappoints Foster Controller Foster expressed regret that the Toronto--Hamilton highway, which had cost the city so much, had not been utilized by the farmere in | bringing their producs into the mar--| ket to the extent that was anticipat-- | |ed. He suggested that the farmers | should . club together to provide | | heavy motor trucks for the transpor-- | tation of their produce to the city , | market. j Warden J. G. Cornell said the rea-- | _|son why the produce of York county | had been so small, -- was because a, great deal of the land had been sub-- divided for building purposes and lay uncultivated; while on the other hand farmers had gone in more for dairy produce. . Roads Behind Lines, § 1 Major T. T1 Kennedy, of the 22n4 French--Canadian Battalion, said the chicf thing that struck him in con-- nection with the roads in England was that they were tho King's high-- way, and did not belong to John Emith or Bill Jones, and consequently there were not the jealousies which hinder the solution of the problem in Ontario. _ The 'farmer Pays 60 perp cent. in road taxes and does not grumble. _ He thought the Ontario Government did not give the assist. ance to the movement for good roady that they should give. A deputation of eastern memberg of the Association will wait upon Premier Hearst this morning to pre-- sent a petition urfln.cl the necessity of building a Provincial highway along the northern shore of Lake Ontario to Montreal, ; 154 Y