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Fifth, that a serious effort be made to secure better results from -- the money spent on the school. '"'We are informed that a girl pupil lay for sixty hours suffering from serious burns before she received at-- tention." Fourth, that the position of nurse be filled by none but a qualified hos-- pital graduate. From first to last the superinten-- dent has been appointed for his ser-- vices to his party. The question of his capabilities has never been con-- sidered seriously, while the desirabil-- ity of gecuring the services of men previously acquainted in a small de-- gree with the blind seems never to have occurred to the Government. Then we ask that the blind at the school be given class for class the same education as is provided by the Province for sighted -- children, and that none but properly qualified in-- structors be employed. Third, it is advised that courses of instruction in music be graded ac-- cording to an accepted standard, and that the department be affiliated with the University of Toronto or-- some other recognized institution. A Change in Music. Among other things, the change would remove the appointment of a superintendent from the field of poli-- tics. At the request of Dr. R. A. Pyne, Minister of Education, the Ontario As-- sociation having asked for a written statement embodying the wishes of the blind of the Province on reforms for the Ontario School for the Blind, the officers of the Association have submitted the following advice: The cardinal reform is the estab-- lishment of a Board of Governors to exercise a general oversight of the institution. Politics at School. Favor Board of Governors, In closing, the students point out that thye serve the public interest in advancing any suggestion, since a con-- siderable number of the students have left the institution and more will leave without obtaining any advant-- age of the reforms which are apt to follow the report of the Royal Com-- missioner. They do not disapprove of the re-- commendation of the Commissitoner that they serve the public interoest in in the Musical Department, but would prefer the Musical Director to be a sighted man. Because of the Provincial Govern-- ment's statement regarding its will-- ingness to entertain any suggestions on the management of public institu-- tions, students at the School for the Blind, Brantford, have forwarded to Fir William Hearst a letter containing their opinion of the report of the Royal Commission which recently probed conditions at the school. The students wish to emphasize the need of a radical change in the sys-- tem and administration of the Musical Department. '"Whatever qualifica-- tions our present musical director may have, he is not competent to teach the blind," they say. Musical Director Appointment, STUDENTS FAVOR CHANGES | Ontario Association for the Blind Also Make -- Recommendations to Gov-- ernment FPollowing the Recent Probe by Mr., N. B. Gash, K.C. A Board of Governors Would Benefit the Institution AT SCHOOL FOR BLIND Deputation Complains of Muni-- cipal Competition in Hand-- _ Jing Necessary Commodity COAL MEN PROTEST 9 GIVIC FUEL YARDS Regarding the Hamilton Jockey Club, Mr. McPherson said there was no application pending from the said club to increase its capital stock so that each $400 shareholdaer would get a certificate for $1,000 of new stock. There is, however, an application for supplementary letters patent to in-- creaso the capital stock from $100,-- 000 to $500,000 by the creation of 4,000 shares of new stock at $100 each. consideration. The Government was not aware that thoe increased capital stock was distrfhuted among the existing stock-- holders as bonus stock. Supplemen-- tary letters patent were granted to the club increasing its capital stock from $200,000 to $6090,000 hy the cre-- ation of 490 shares of new stock of $1,000 each. The Government didn't know that this was distributed among the stockholders as bonus stock. The Government has no knowledge or jur-- isdiction over matters connected with the collection of war tax by the Do-- minion. No Hamilton Application. Replying in the Legislature yester-- day, to the questions by Mr. Sam.--Car-- ter (South Wellington}, regarding the Ontario Jockey Club, Hon. W. D. Mc-- Pherson said that letters patent were granted to the Ontario Jockey Club on November 4th, 1910, increasing the capital stock from $20,000 to $200,-- 000, dividing the capital stock into 200 shares of $1,090 each, and declar-- ing the new shares to be allotted to the then sharecholders of the club so that each shareholder shoulid receive the same number of shares as were lheld by such shareholder before. cLovernment Claims Ignorance. The Ontario> Government's hbill al-- lowing municipalities to establish coal and food depots was criticized yes-- terday by a deputation of dealers who declared such -- a ~measure to be an intrusion of their rights, and unfair in certain respects, Mr. W. C. Mil-- ler,--Secretary .of the Retail Merchants' Association, said that allowing muni-- cipalities to sell to dealers and resi-- dents .simply | opened the doors for municipalities to enter into competi~ tion with the. retail trade. 3 : . Mr. H. A. Harrington, Secretary of the: coal . merchants' division of the association, said that the coal: men paid taxes om millions of dollars' worth of property,-- and 'if this bill went through. it just meant that the coal 'men ~would go out of business and the taxes be lost. It was an imposition for the coal dealers to be put into. competition with the city, and it was absolutely unfair. & Ontario Government Makes Statement in Response to Queries Ex--Alderman McBride thought the city had all it could do to run its own HETHIKS.: . .. _2 2 3e o h le; sn a that the complaint the retail men had made would be tonsidered. Several municipalities had asked for the same thing, and it had been thought best to put it in a general bill. * oT The application is at present under --CT FAT MELON?