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Mr. Mowat m mittee the reoc partment of seig the sales to vem given to hospita art that the ty invoices of all 5 Mr. Dewart "I: ma ucpunment employed detectives ---and they had used the different Io.. cal furencies---titey had had to pay six dollars a day. compared with tive dollars a day charged by the Em- ployers' Detective Agency to the Li.. cense Board. His department had used them in connection with crimi- nal work in locating foreigners. Mr. Mowat explained to the conf- 'tmr-s... wc, _ At tho last session of the commit., tee it was stated that there had last year been indiscriminate searching of baggage on trains west of North Bay for liquor. It was stated at that time that Mr. Joseph R. Rogers had written one ot his officers in connec- tion with the matter. Yesterday Mr. Rogers read a letter ot instruc- tion to the Provincial constable who. it was alleged. made the searches, informing him that he had no right to examine baggage except upon reasonable suspicion that liquor was being illegally carried. Mr. Rogers subsequently told Mr. C. S. Cameron of North Grey that when his department employed detectives ---ei_ W meme v...,, %.ra» !the authority of the board, although they might be delivered by the in- spectors. He admitted- that the board had had little to do with the :actual transfer of tho liquor from the amounts seized to the vendors. The question ot the price charged the vendors had been loft very largely to the inspectors. The Vice-Chair- man told Col. Machin that a Mr. Cakes, representing the Committee of One Hundred, had done some work for the Commission. This man had been loaned by that committee, and he had conducted investigations as to the, shipments of liquor into Ontario from Montreal. His employ- ment did not cost the Government anything. Seizures of Liquor. IIVUJUQ'S or all sales of 1: dr. Dewart asked to be The inquiry will be .30 this morning. of liquor to Grniirri"iCiniiis'eri2riss.' Mr. Dingman told him, however. that such sales cou[d_be made only on _ Three witnesses were called to testify before the Public Accounts Committee of the Legislature yes- terday when the inquiry into the Dewart charges against Chief Li- censc inspector J. A. Ayearst was resumed. Mr. W. S. Dingman, Vice- Chairman of tho board. was on the stand for the most of the morning, although Mr. J. F. Mowat, Auditor and Accountant of the Commission, was recalled for a short time, and Mr. Joseph E. Rogers, Superintend- ent of the Provincial Police. was asked a number of questions. How- ever, notwithstanding the two and a half hour examination which was energetically conducted by Mr. TI. Hartley Dewart. ICC., and I.t.-Col. if. C. Machin, little new informa- tion was adduced. and even it was of no great imnnrtanr-a or no great importance. Mr. Dowart sought particularly to ascertain the details of the sales SALE OF SEIZED LIQUOR Witnesses Heard Before the Public Accounts Com- mittee LITTLE NEW IN , LIQUOR PROBE to vendors and the amounts hospitals. He told Mr. Dew- the board had on record of all sales of liquor. These orb eu-."-" ' . Liquor. 'Apldllleu to the com'- ord kept in the de- zures of_liquor made, produced. resumed at OPTOMETRISTS MUST REGISTER Board of Five Examiners to Issue Certificates to Those Qualified Optometrists practicing in Ontario must in future be registered with a, hoard of tive examiners. who iii) issue certificates to those properly aualified. The Legal Committee of the Legislature yesterday approved a bill sponsored by Mr. E. W. J. Owens. to regulate the practice of optometry. Mr. W. G. Maybee, Pre- sident of the Canadian Opto- metrists' Association. headed a de- putation which endorsed the bill. He stated that it would not create a monopoly, but merely prevent the use of the title "Optometrist' by those not entitled to it. The tlitter-l ence between an "optician" and an; "Optometrist," he explained by stat-1 ing that the former was really one who only ground lenses. Although the deputation protest- ed. the committee decided that for the protection of the public, it should report favorably on a clause providing that all optometrists must furnish their customers with a cer- tificate and specifications of the variety of lens supplied with every purchase. At the suggestion of Mr. William Proudfoot, ICC., the Opposition Leader, the hill to amend the. Mechanics' and Wage Earners' Lien Act was referred to a special com- mittee.