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AND BRUCE ' ' 3 ASKING FOR HYDRO| f | , 'Deputation Waits Upon Sir MOULD COMP EL | ; Adam Beck, Who Promises ' | Urging upon Sir Adam Beck "tmt" i mm mmz m n ror sented I | he district which they repres | | ts i:ieiired Hydro power, a large dele-i !Change the Names of Tru-- | i m Huron and Bruce coun-- | i is | f fiizlotof:t?erred with the Chairman ! ancy Offlcers to Attend ; of the Ontario Hydrn-clect'ru'. 51'(})\:- | ance Offlcers [ ; er _ Commission yesterday. _ 4 "'vi | mmunt t U incioadins aiiven ntovigs z ' y submitted a statement of their prob-- | | mcl able requirements, and Sir ui}gfilll:ll' While not changing the compu!-- 4 | be-{nStlTli'nf the matter at once. The : at from eight to fourteen year, an ' :;li:x';gt could be supplied from Eu--| Act to compel attendance at school . genia Falls by an "xt("nfl(;';' Zitg;?i | _was introduced in the Legislature line fl'ruxtr:m('-;\,'(};-;::-::l (:'\'.\t)(?n'l(. 4 t yesterday which, it is hoped, Will' f s"l{,'hz requirements _ of the places | remedy many defects which became | concerned are: \\'inflhi""v_',"f)ol h-}{\_'; | apparent in the old law, and at .t,hel Teeswater, }_0."'21('\?"-";3)'_' }\i'i',g'(\arl(;li(fie.? same time incorporate many of the nS)(\)\:, T'l(?l(; 1«'1;}liln. 300: Fordwich, 50; | suggestions put forward from time] - z:;')(".,l'i" 50; Brussels, 100; paisley,' to time. The bill, which was intro-- |. 100. $ P duced by Hon, G. Howard Ferguson, en mm ce en mmeemneteemeememmemmmmmamamemmeeeeeeeeeetaiitiamenmanemmmmmemmem is entitled "An Act Respecting School A Attendance." The principal change from the old Truancy Act is that the Authority to appoint truant officcrs} | is transferred from the Police Com-- | A | missioners to the School Boards. fel R J The officers, to be appointed and % Ipaid by the School Boards, will be | designated as School Attendance * t Officers, and not Truant Officers. as ' t it has been contended for some time R 7 | that there was a certain stigma at-- 3 tached to the latter term. -- These F ' officials may be either men or wo-- | men, whichever the School Board | considers advisable. 'To co--ordinate 6 the work of these officers and to eimiasrgurearmemenenemen back #hem up, as it were, the Act 3 E provides for the appointment of a Hon. Ml'. Lucas Presents Re' }Provincial School Attendance Off-- K ® cer. It will not be his part to in-- pOl't Of Speclal COm- 'terfere with the local enforcement F | of the law, but where local offlcers' ; mittee {meot with difficulty of any sort he | hn n gernpettneserne mcee | will be able to advise them and give I s 3. L 3 rard the end assistance. f s i Hion. 1. L',l uc:.i,'s., tovsa' d' lted to ' This official will also have special \ _ of yesterday's session, presen duties in regard to the enforcement 'g ithe Ontario Legislature the report + of the school at.tendar}ce l?st in unj; i e ittee which sat . _ | organized districts. n the past ; '?lf]rtige i;;gg;z;lt;ol{x;?};c the laws re-- has been against the non--attendance f 'spect'iig loan and trust corporations. in such places that much crmcx?m \He also introduced <the bill which has been directed. Where settle-- ® ' | the report, and which ments neglect to provide schools or |wss basegl k h f mittee at | teachers, or otherwise fail in thglr was considered by t'? (re -- were no duty toward the children of the dis-- [ |its» Jast meitfigg'dmfrtlise submitted | triect, the Provincial o(fihcder is lf"t,fin / | changes in C a E | powe~ to step in an o .#\ e 4 !yesterday, and the clause which the - \things the local authoritiee have {| corporations objected to, prohibiting | neglected to do, although having them from putting more than 15 per | power so to do. . f cent_ Of thei!' assets into an)' one mevinntiguess sns i terrnrrenrartee m oc acnihee e ce enc t anraraietenenten mrcee i n andienrementernenec n ce P s company had not been deleted. . Three Toronto bills were .intx'o- duced, two of them standing in the 2 t name of George H. Gooderham (Southwest Toronto) to amend the 3 Local Improvement Act and the Municipal Franchise Act, and one in : the name of Mr. Mark Irish (North-- * ' east Toronto) to amend the Public Health Act. . E . _-- i,.- ; ts %