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tThe desire of the Government for: strict enforcement of the act., _ _ Want More Production. y lys The Government did well in ap-- < pointing Dr. Creeiman of the-Obt:xxo' Agricultural College Commissioner of Agriculture, in the opinion of Mr. . A. Hall (South Waterloo). He thought the O. A. C. should teach buslnml methods as well as agriculture. Touching on the proposed new On-- tario land settlement scheme for sol-- | diers, he said the development of. Northern Ontario was not so neces-- , sary at present as increased agricul-- tural production in older Ontario, and efforts should be made to settle some i of the returned soldiers on the farms !of older Ontario. | For Road IJmprovement. ! Hon. Finlay Macdiarmid introduc-l l ed a bill whereby control can be as-- Isumed of main roads under the coun-- : tvy system to link these un where de-- | sirable with the Provincial highway scheme, the county in such cagses be-- ing allowed 80 per cent. of the cost of ; construction. i F | !EASTERN ONTARIO FOR _ I PROVINCIAL HIGHW AY I » DEPUTATION DRAWS OUT GOV-- ERNMENT UPON HUGE UNDERTAKING. | A large deputation from eastern Ontarto yesterday waited upon mem-- , bers of the Ontario Cabinet, advocat-- ing the building of a large Provincial % highway from the boundaries of Que-- | bee to the boundaries of Michigan. |\ _ Hon. Mr. Macdiarmid, Minister of Public Works, said the Government tsome months ago had decided to link ' up the highways of the Province in a Provincial system of good roads. If a Provincial highway would be built it would be located where it would best / serve the interests of the people of the part of the Province it traversed. ' Premier Hearst stated that in a ,few days legislation 'would be intro-- lduced to give authority for the Pro-- vincial system of good roads which 'the Government had under contem-- . ' plation. If the Gove.rment adopted the suggestion the© deputation > had made it would not act in a half--: hearted manner. f