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WW w egtxeUar, tl hr ui, IL " A . "When was that mm speech a." made?" interrupted Attorney-Gen- Should Keep Roads Open. era! Price. in the absence at Pre- Mayor Balharrie ot Ottawa, while tttier Ferguson. agreeing that those who used the "That kind of a speech was made. roads should Day for them, consid- at Coehrene,.nmong other places. cred it very unfair that his city returned Mr. Belanger. who attrib- should be forccd to pay gasoline tax uted such statements to the Prime for its truck and automobile 1"l..1ll'.: Minister, among others. mont, when the suburban roads wele closed to traffic for about four Reports Battle Him. months of each year. He thought The Legislature was entitled to that the Government should keep know beforehand, submitted yr. thc roads one" during the winter Belanger, where the Government In- months or give the cities a reb.ale tended to spend the $5,000,000 9.0- in the in: on gasoline used by CIVIC propriation. It was all right tor the services. . Government to say that it "could be In discussing the question gener- got from the reports." but, said Mr. nllv Mr. Henry reiterated the hope Belanger, he had looked carefully that the Government. in the near through the public accounts, and future might he able to devise a he had found little evidence of the whom; whereby truckers and freip:1t expenditure. He referred, however, haulers in direct competition with to one item of $3,736,000, under the ruil'wuV-q. would be compelled to Northern and Northwestern Devel- iii/ol a fair sham of the ms; of road opment, which. he said. was made maintenance in the Province. . up of "small invoices tor this and (Miler speakers of the deputation for that, but for what purpose we wc/l,.. Mayor- Stevens. Niagara. Falls; are It a lost, to know." ("HY 'w,iiaii'/i), w. G. Non P, London; Going further on what he had to Aid ll ifollins. 14ellrtvillr; Mayor say regarding "undue pressure" in Al'wr'km'. Woodstock: Mayor slemnn, the last election, Mr. Belanger said i/:iirtiri'., Mayor McKay, Cult; Ald. that, from Sault Ste. Marie to Ot- Grcl, Kitchontt and Harry Mn.- . tawa, and from Cobalt to Moonbenm, MM". Guelph. Aurora. Kingston ?'padrbuilding staffs had been mohi- and lic'; Sound were also repre- llzed for election purposes. And civil gm," at tho confornm-e. ' servants who had left their employ- . ment, it not their salaries. were can- vassing. he said, in the interests of the Conservative' party.