The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 23 Apr 1921, p. 3

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S :"« F : atus _ onl e e e e t °_ _ _ e y 9n e * _ * 9O mt ROHIBITION OF NATIVE WINE _ |f l q'u a * * # WILL PROBABLY BE EFFECTED .:' * ' f NSE * e o & smpmemmmmmmintstormmmmmmmmmint * dications That Bill Introduced by Liberal Sharp Difference of Opinion k e + * _4 # * Leader Will Obtain Sufficient Support Arises During Govern-- to Become Law ment Film Inquiry R ( # s s A A sharp difference of opinion Quite in vain did R: ]': }Ialll. :Abk ggg, tfi::eu\t\b: o}?tfl:f:t;?ge m(f?rn;;me marked the closing moments yester--| _ al member for Parry Sound, S6®®) jrougs hnaye undertaken. to go the day of the Public Accounts Commit-- b ascertain from the Government| whole hog. We are ;or proriubition \lve. when W. H. Price (Parkdale) ® resterday what its intentions were)| because the people have said that l and Chairman 3. wW. C it cce ur me oi o mm Pets | Bdnne o eople Senat 100F 2o 0|R £MPNM 0000 ned aming art, Liberal Leader, to prohibit t?*) mand." \ The Parkdale member had asked sale of native wines In Ontario and Hon. Mr. Ferguson--And all they the witness, W. Dawson, as to why to limit the amount of liquor ob--| want. he had left the em g a 4 M iainable on doctors' prescriptions to If, as Mr. Hall says, members on adian. Aero _ Film pl(?y idiiin C;m s he tumult of dis-- the Opposition side of the House are N Pn ® 'ompany. he six ounces. In t going to support the Dewart bill, Chairman ruled that the question cussion over bonded liquor WAle'|there is mote than a probability had to be whether he had left be-- houses the question he asked went| that sufficient members _ will be cause of any irregularity 1 i ' nanswered. found on the Government side to : any gularity in the re-- } But Mr. Hall, in raising the ques--] vote for and carry it.: : : """0";'5 between the company and| F . the Gevernment. Mr. Price said ) ~ in nntinsumenomdaee ol vosuprmmnntisrentevnss einrnietientepnieniacatemin itc en ces hacantienimenemeneene ie m hi oA | that t'ie Chairman was trying to ' | burk the inquiry. * | __'"You are saying what is absolute-- € | ly untrue,"' said Mr. Curry. The ac-- R cusation and denial were repeated, but a calm succeeded the storm, and # everything became quiet again. The Chairman then put his ques-- tion to the witness, who replied that | he had left the company because of ill--health and "rumors and things" he had heard. He was not permit-- | ted to tell what the rumors were. J { * Theatenced by Irish,. s Dawson was formerly Director of the Motion Picture Bureau of the Government. A contract to _get ( films from the Canadian Aero Film N : Company had been made by the Government early in 1920. Some time before that he had been in the ; offices of the company and had seen screened a picture called '"'The Silver Tract." He liked the picture, but ' . understood it was made for the Canada Cement Company. Not be-- ~ l ing certain about the matter, he had ) refused to certify the account for the picture when the Government ' s purchased it. . Blaine Irish, Mana-- k ger of the company, had called on ts him, said the witness, and was angry| over the delay and had promised tc' "get him." Later Mr. Elliott was placed ln' charge of the bureau, said witness, and the accounts were paid. Daw-l son testified that when in the em-- ploy of the Government Irish had\ offered to sell him $2,000 worth otl stock in the Canadian Aero Film Company, but he had -- told himl "NMothing doing." | Wasted Film Paid For. I Dawson explained that, in purchas-- § ing films, the camera stops and wasted film were supposed to be -- r l taken out before the film was mea-- . > sured. He testified that he knew : C film was measured immediately af-- 6 | -- ter it came from the laboratory and . t the invoice prices to the Govern-- P f ment were based on this measure-- s ment and not on the measurement 4 ' after certain portions had been taken out. s Witness said that the apparent overcharge on the picture '"Niagara, ¢ Winter and Summer," had -- been a brought to the attention of an of-- 3 ficial of the film company some time «l before the period Mr. Elliott said ® he had found it, but, witness said, ' ' g nothing was done. He told of drawing attention to an overcharge 8 of 700 feet in one film, the title of . 4 which had been changed and in-i f d voiced under the two titles. | 4 * Mr. Price wanted to have all films S purchased during the last year re-- f f * measured, but on a votle the com-- f j mittee decided he should finish the ' 3 y f inquiry, and then, if necessary, pro-- $ ceed with the remeasurement. s mse ------------------7"*4--*-'--*------,--"--'------------_--'-- i i v * * ol ;'f, '4 S * y ; o A y % w C C % « n td s ._ j

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