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tlonsbare carried out Y' asked a . . . mem er. "Absolutely," re lied Mr. - Biggs. The clause carried). A second member of the board, , representing the consumers ot na- During question time Mr. Raney tural gas. will he nominated t told the House that the amount of meeting of the member t a a the bill for witness fees in the Shev- islature representing 3,: teegt,et lin-Clarke case was not yet made Up. districts where natural gas is 112;: ,nor had the counsel fees yet been The third member will be named . taxed. by the other two, or if they can- 'not agree in one month after a date named by the Minister of Mines, the Minister is to name him. The third' member is to be Chairman of the ft RANGE board. l Wherever in the Natural Gas Actl . the "referee" is named, the board l will be deemed to be substituted tor _ i it, and the board is to have all the g powers and is to perform the dutiesi _ . . of the referee. Nothing in thei i, J. C. Tolmie, Liberal member for Natural Gas Conservation Act, 1921.' lWindsor, moved in the liegislature or in the act respecting natural gate, yesterday for second reading to be IS to affect any existing contract or given his bill to amend the Munici- agreement between the owner of I pa.1.r?ra,imuty1. This amendment, land on which a producing gas well lwhich he said was drafted by the is situated and the person operating Drainage Referee, would give the the same. The act is to come into . l right to a person to have the Referee fore on the first of July next . 'make an inquiry where there was Ga Ooun . T reasonable apprehension of damage us ty Members. to property by reason of any drain- . Members representing the follow- age. . mg electoral districts are to choose Hon. F. C. Riggs opposed the bill, a representative to the board: North remarking that they should no: and South Essex, East and West Icourt trouble until they came to it. Elgin, East and West Kent East Hon. Howard Ferguson thought and West Lambton, East, iiii'st and the bill was of a precautionary type ifortlt Middlesex, London, North and only and approved of it. iSOUth Oxford, North and South Premier_ Drury said it might cre- iNorfolk, North and Sou:h Brant ate the right P. sue for damages 'South W'aterloo, North and South for apprehended iniury, and it Mr. 1Ventrrorth, Haldimand, welland 'Fohtme Te/tui,',' idea put into leg- Lincoln, Windsor, East and \'i'est l sa ion 1 e ill would hase to be Hamilton, St. C tenanged, Falls. atharines, Niagara l Several members, urged mm the - ;bill so to cmnmitree and that die position finally "as made 0-" il, ;thnugli the Aiiorney-Ge.neral said he . rather doubled the principle of the . - bill. But Way Is Now Open for . Road Negotiations With Natural Gas Affairs to _ Government l, Administered by New l, m.--..-------'. i Board ' The Board of Control had a, pre- -.----------_ ', iiminary conference with Hon. F. C. REPRESENT ALL PARTI L'ip:gs yesterday regarding the Gov- ES evnment's Provincial highway pro- - ', gram, and while no decision was ar- . An important bill was introduced! rived at, the way opened for further in the Legislature by Hon. Harryi negotiations. . Mills, Minister of Mines, regarding? works Commissioner Harris de- natural gas. The bill creates a _ dared that a 40-foot bridge would board which will supersede the Gas not be satisfactory tor traffle over Referee. Th ' the Humber River, and further ob- e companies will have jected to the city being asked to pay one representative on the board, the the excess cost ot a bridge 76 feet consumers another, and the third in width. . will be chosen by the other two, or, Mr. gist? stated that 3?; 13:83:23 . a it ' ' o N if they cannot agree on a choice, (ji7a11fyb,1,2Jl2nofll")h the city. The\ by the Minister himself. The con- members of the board thought. this sumers' representative will be nom- was too Eula? andd ')y'-i'ieiitaeif, that . .inate . . - the area e mite in ml es, _ l t d by the members m the Legis Mayor Maguire pointed out that. a ure representing constituencies in ' the Government contemplated deal- which natural gas is used. The ing only with,thref lughways,name- Cabinet will have the power of ap- . ly, Yonge street, Dundas street and pointment th b Kingston. road. Later,. Bathurst,) anie don e card, the com- Dufferin and perhaps the Kennedy p is an the members merely road might come in. He asked the 1norn nating their choices , Minister if the city consented at tBOard of Iteterenee. thei We?" time-hit:l asks: 133th? and}: V Tnilo so cine, W e r , thTheh terms of the act set forth were taken over, would the mileageT l at t ere is to be a Board of Refer- be adjusted? To this Mr. Biggs was lance for the purposes of the Natural not agreeable. ' bas ft',"',',',',"',?,),',',",), Act of 1921, the It was stated that the department; boar to e composed of three mem- was working on the problem of ad-l b OPS; One of these members, repre- , justing the conditions under which), sent us the companies producing thes city is working with the Toronto ' . and distributing natural gas. will be and York Roads Commission, and,' 1'to',',e,'t"d at a sheeting, to 1:" held , as tilt) coniercncc thlJUtli'lied All} . c me an pace as t e Min- . . t . th tt st rked that it was e r'. gister of Mines may appoint, of rep- 't'itf"thrt2afilirette;is had come tut, and igeyetlv,te of such companies, and he saw nothing that could not be . ,this meeting Will be called by the', ranged Minister by seven days' notice, at:I ar , ----- _----------" least. to the companies by register-l t . ed letter. Every company may tel represented at that meeting by one . 2 . person. duly authorized. v_ I " T