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t?' f ' O feomaeeene en es ~.,, h ' .. C C * C mm in ap c \ } TTIUCT bir y "°" y Ns o Te / JULLL NA GIVIL, [ ~_* amssies, : f | [( 2 wiy" To i e Sn 3 v' OHANLET f J O | m KAe ; ANUL ' | JB e iss ss ' _ |Private Bills Committee of j s@ , J "ix> £" f Legislature Approves j t,;:" -- R # & ; 3 ) Drastic Changes , | -- ..% Drastic changes desired by the : : _ _ | City of Guelph in its municipal ad-- ! x { _ | ministration were approved of by | ( : _ |the Private Bills Committee of the _ | Legislature yesterday. The experi-- f _ |ment is one that will be closely @ watched by municipalities generally @ } £ in the Province, as it is a question o "'@ in which they are all deeply con-- i t cerned. _ At present there are six Public f..>+ «_ | Utility Commissions in Gueiph. Un-- se der this act they will be abolished, | ---- | Mr. Sam Carter pointed out, and | B the work will be undertaken by the C Council. Next year 18 Aldermen J will be elected, the six securing the ' I+ highest vote for a period of three ' __-- | years, the six securing the next high-- e est votes for a term of two years, and the remainder for a term of one year. In this way there will be con-- tinuity of administration, whereas \a at the present time when new men _ __|are elected annually the work often ' a fo suffers. .' _ _| Administration Transformed. | f Then, too, the bill provides that a the city may level four mills on the E xA assessment to be used for patriotic. : purposes. At the present time it is' g -- 3 restricted to 15 mills, Permission . g was also given for the Mayor to be $ -- 4 elected by the Council, instead of R j by the voters at large. -- 3 Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Solicitor-- ie j i General of the Union Government, o : spoke in favor of the bill, and Mr. y A Wm. Proudfoot, Opposition leader, f said that while it was a drastic BA ; < step, Guelph was making the ex-- -- 6 §E %:.% ' periment itself, and it would be E. profitable to other cities. 3 When the bill for Scarboro' and + is o ' Etobicoke townships came up, the $ & clause providing that the city should * f f supply them with water was struck pe. j out, when protest was made by Mark :: ' Irish. The city is short of water +b itself, he said, and it should not be E compelled to make the outlying dis-- > (H . tricts happy at the city's expense. io . Permission to construct waterworks ' and extend them was allowed. f The committee approved of the & { bill to incorporate the village of ; | Mildmay, but not without opposi-- | tion. § o. -- |FISHERMEN PROTEST i - 1 | _ AcAmsT covT. PoLiCY > ' romnmmmnprrmemmmmmmemmummme i. 4 E. TWO DEPUTATIONS WAIT UPON ; HON. FINLAY MACDIARMID AT QUEEXN'S PARK. | i M fnas in ut ho onl art esd aricis i}| . | _Two deputations waited on Hon.|" o | Finlay Macdiarmid, Minister of Pub-- s lic Works, yesterday, to protest j ' 'against the Government's policy in . ' selling fish. One represented the '|Lake Erie Fishermen's Association, f with about 700 members, and the other the Lake Huron and Georgian | Bay Fishermen's Association. ~M * Brock McAuley of Southampton |. i; : said the price offered by the Gov-- , f ernment is inadequate. Of §00 fish-- $ | ermen in Lake Huron and Georgian " Bay, 150, as owners, have Govern-- ' t 3 l ment li¢censes. The _ Government + 2 price is only about half that paid by '9w E. private dealers, he said. Mr. Mac-- p 'diarmidreplied briefly to the depu-- j tations, explaining the attitude of --f | the Government, but made no defi-- e inite statement. However, he prom-- E; -- ' 'uod consideration of the request. }