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Wedneldau), taare.uestre ' QUEENS MI) WESTERN I OUR SITTING [ Efforts Expected, But Grants """""""""".'"""""'""'L" ' Are Not Cut Off, De- Little Discusswn OccaSIonedl ' clares Premier by Passage of Ontario , t _""""'"'"""""'""""""""'" Estimates for Year l ------ BELANGER SPEAKS LATER} i, Firm in the belief that Ontario -------. l 3110:," not be compelled to assume in record time the Ontario Legis-I ,t,',1/.',,i"t1tl,l"fo',.l 1l'yloli,t of its three uni.. lature passed approximately $45,-l , Ler glitz): '",?e12'Cdl?,?",r,ttn told the t)00,000 worth of estimates between', . grants to Western University and placed its business affairs in a condi- f,)'re//l'.sf,'l.2,ep,iatp as had been re- thin front which most of the mem- 'ea,itwtrmakingitclea.rt th t . .. r . - ;institutionsvl named that in fgtur: nets now anticipate an Easter. ad {they will be required to make some' Journment. With very little discus- (effort to provide for themselves. sion, the House passed tho main es- . c\'ietesr/t'.ln'i'stgot,',',ee2i'ir,1'tia", Queen: timates, totalling about $42,000,000. of this kind. In 'ire/Ti',', Tdv/'/?f, and the further, supplementaries, University, while comparatively new, totalling a little over $3,000,000. had made splendid progress, and was " ' expanding all the time. It was his Will Talk on Schools. i i hope that within a year that this Although the..totals were passed, luniversity would be able to adopt A. Belanger, Liberal member tor, T tsome scheme, similar to that at Russell. secured speaking rights lQueen's, whereby some of the load reservation for one or two items in now carried by the Province would the educational estimates. He pro- LN ' be lifted. poses to speak to the question of - _ Policy Criticized. French-English schools at some "r" l Passing of grants to these uni- 'ti'"i?utg,l' ('vtst,hea,'ip1etuffg"t1ni it'ersmes occasioned considerable -Progressives' tor the evenln the (criticism of the Government's edu, i'o7i'iiif,i'e'rihi' [undevrto k to h g, H lcationai policy in regard to discon- iCharles M C e "101 t. given on. . Itinuation of first-year university ', ' ' 'sc'r a, '. Ills er 0 ' nes; iclasses. Premier Ferguson told Lib-; 913.013: G. ' Henry, "f/Ser oth-Iigh- , cral Leader w. .E. N. Sinclair that tti X3": "V p." Ne on. Jo n s. was' the intention of the Governmenti . artin, Ministet of Agriculture, give I to do away with first-year work in resumestof the work of their de- l the University of Toronto, and the paitmeln s. - . i second-year work also, if such actioni t t e outset Mr, Belanger raised 1| - was found to be practical. l sumo question about the appearance 1 I The Premier was unable to tell Mr.i of a $37,500 Item in the supplemen- I . Sinclair when the new plan would taries for itsh hatcheries. He ' be in operation. Asked what Juris-. l thought expenditures were becoming I diction the Minister of Education had pretty heavy in this particular de- ', _ over Queen's and Western Unlversi- partment. Hon. Mr. McCrea ex-. ties to compel them to discontinue piained that. provision was being ' the first two years of university work. made to take over the Dominion Mr. Ferguson replied that legislation hatcheries. and the amount was al- would be enacted whereby this ar- lowed to so through r rangement could be ettected. At no . - time. he said, had there been any Hydro for Country. friction. between the rDtl"irhtg,1"',t, tot In the Hydro estimates Premier Education and eithet tt ese um- Ferguson stated that the work of "p Versities. ' extending hydro to the rural dis- "Advertising Scheme." trims was going ahead at such a . Expressing the belief that no rapid rate that the staff was unable money would be saved by the Gov- to keep pace with the demand. An- . ernment from the new policy of dis- other $25,000 is included tor in- rr w' " continuation of tirst-year work. for vestigation of steam-plant power, T the reason that "financial saving" possibilities. i there would have to be handed out , to the high tschools-the Junior col- ' ieges, so to speak. where the work would be taken care ot-OV. Sinclair characterized the project as "an ad- _ 'l vertising scheme for the Govern- tt , ment." , , . The grants passed by the House ' in Committee of Supply follow--. i University of Toronto, $987,945: _ 4 - Queen's University, $380,000, and: Western University. $250,000. i tr,',., ' i