Mr. Dewart thought=--that the bill pmis' cce shou!d be reprinted with the amend-- | TT o4A ments to it, so that all the memberse f could see them. He made a mo-- . € EYS tion, but it was vote@ down. He $ 3 then amked the Attorney--General to { have the courtesy, despite the vote, M HYDRO to have the bill printed. "They are gune easy to understand,"" said Mr. < wonncmminosmmmmmenimmmentrmmmmmnme aney, referring to the amendments. | I "That is not the point," said Mr. |H' H. Dewart; M-P.P., Cor--! > Dswart. "It is the point," said Mr. | i Aney. warmiv. rects Impression Conveyed . May Want to Confer. n Report of His SpeEOh Mr. Dewart said that there was wummmmmmmmsmmmmentommmmeomee & question involved in the amend-- The Globe is in receipt of a letter ments in regard t_.u which Toronto from Mr. H. H. Dewart, K.C., M.P.P and York members might wish to for South e es confer. Mr. Ranoy then consented west Toronto, pointing out to hold the bill over. § that in the published version of his For the rest of the evening the remarks at the meeting of the Lib-- uy fhe amenimeng in tho y | oo oo o aihenst Tereale fald on o n~-- ednesday evening i i is tario Game and Fisheries Act. R. R. [ condemnati tn°' deglmg with his Hall contested bitterly the clause 5 on of the finance policy| allowing pound nets in the Georgian of the Drury Government, he is Ba%;. Lake. i1 1bé oT . hesmi o quot:edhag saying that the Govern--. M. & : LXaber ember _ for men ad floated 1 Cochrane, said that fishermen in the of over ° $60,000 OOOOansi' l a i oug Georgian Bay owned their own ur NWd O for various PR o purposes, and had done its borrow-- ecuipment, and sold their fish where ing '"on the strength of the Hydro.," they liked, not being bound by con-- proceeding then to divert theseycllllijo';e tract to sell to any one company. sums into various channels of (lité- bursement--notably, highways. What Mr. Dewart did say, in re-- spect of the borrowing of $40,000 -! \ 000, was that this sum prope;-]'y formed part of the Consolidated C d j (l)lfevte;lr;ue Fund, and that $7,000,000 ) s money, in addition to anadian Fishermen Ask for special loan of $25,000,000, had besk f spent upon highways. Mr. a Govel'nment Ald 'Of adds, in this connec)t,iofl: 1 Pework '"'The sums that have been divert |ndUStry from the Hydro loan for highwa(;g Sememrienemmmommmenmmnenss :re er;ti{}?l}; Iin addition to _ the moun a was referri & HON. M. DOHERTY'S PLAN night." e e inirraceneneea e caiindesntnat corecurorme m ormen ancaa ie cocemont on ine ie oi eentpntent Hon. Manning Doherty told fhe, ;I{ouse last night that plans were| under way for the establishment of| f a co--operative association of fisher--| men in Ontario, to encourage a| FOR Ll UOR MEN | greater consumption of Canadian| }' fish and improve the marketing' | e rag--rramys ; conditions that exist at present. Mr. Provincial -- Treasurer Also Doherty intimated that the planaf i \ were well under way. [ | Would Put Spemal Levy : The Minister's speech was mado? ' on Bettors I during the discussion on the amend--| \ ments to the Ontario Game and| o lan ninasg. | Fisheries Act, when exception was | In a resolution placed on the order | being taken to gllogod American ipaper by Hon. Peter Smith, Provin--, ' control of Canadian fisheries, es-- |cial Treasurer, it is set forth that| pecially in the Georgian Bay. He + l said that only that afternoon a depu-- every liquor export company is to tation of fishermen had waited upon . pay a tax of $15,000 per annum to him to ask that lom?thing bg done , the Government. The resolution xgafi';: them access to the Untario ; says, also, that every company own-- They wanted the Government to T ing, operating or using a telephone undertake some sort of advertising line or part thereof in Ontario for .. ; ,gampizisf;i _?th'lllllnsuf.llqe meri}t; 10£ gain and having a paid--up capital of| | Ontario fish. The Minister sa 1e < f tax of bhad told them that it would not be $109,000 orover 4s L0 pa;y 6 a't;: ' |practicaible to start an advartising one--quarter of 1 per cent. upon the |campaign at the present time uniess paid--up capital. I \the markets throughout the Province Another part of the resolution says -- | were assured a sieady supply of fish. that every incorporated company, as-! > | He then alluded to the scheme of sociation or club becoming the cus-- |co--operative marketing among the todian of any money, bet or stakes* 'flshermen, and added that it was during the actual progress of a race \planned to send representatives into | . meeting conducted on a race--course 'small fishing centres with the ob--| of such company, etc., is to pay 5 'ject of making arrangements with | vber cent. of the amount bet. |th local dealers. : |\ _ Hon. Howard Ferguson remarked | o ithut a fAish--selling campaign hadzt s 'been carried on with succees by the | B Pl l fGovernment during the war. Mr. lggs alls llCl'eaSe \Doherty replied that that, however, s F f \was a Government undertaking. ln Auto Llcense CEeS onrrraranaseracteas ae e in es en avea en moren es irancurns | * 8 |\ _ Near the close of the debate _ on the Highway Improvements Bill --in the Legislature last f night, Hon. F. C. Biggs, Minis-- . ter of Highways, gave a fairly clear intimation of his depart-- 'ment's intention of increasing ; motor license fees . once the * new good roads system was fairly well established. In that * connection he instanced Que-- s bec's $27 license fee for a small § car, as compared with On-- 7 ¢ tario's $13. o y c The department, he said. in 3 reply to Hon. G. H. Ferguson, had not given serious consider-- ation to the suggestion of tax-- ing lands in close proximity to \ the highways in greater ratio ai>t I * than lands farther back in the % county. ' .