The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 15 Mar 1927, p. 2

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. I tended, chAct I ts A, 'SHOWS GOOD RESULTS l I ' ------ Premier Replies to Query on Order Paper Regarding School. at Guelph ARE MAPS "0BS0LETE"? Ot the 173 English boys that have) been trained to date in the Govern-i ment's "Vimy Ridge" school at Guelph. and have been plat-ed on} Ontario farms as part of the air-lf rangement under which they are' brought to this country, only 36 have failed to "stick to the Job." , Information to this effect was supplied the Legislature yesterday~ by Premier Ferguson. in answering the order paper questions of George Smyth. Liberal member for Dundas. Mr. Ferguson explained that of this; " 27 had returned to England with' the realization that they were never "cut out" to be farmers; ti were now with relatives in Ontario: 2 had dis- appeared: and 1 was in the Un- cario Reformatory. Attorney-General w. H. Prim in-, formed D. M. Ross (Progressive,' North Oxford) that no new instrucat tions with respect to enforcement of : the Ontario Temperance Ae had ' emanated from his office, and "tiris- ', ed R. H. Kemp (Pvo.virossiv, Lin- coln) that two brewers, but no dis- tillers' had been convicted during: the fiseal year of 1926 for offenses against the an. Premier Ferguson told it. H. Mil- ler, Liberal member for Haldimand. that he was not aware to? any maps, showing- countries and boundaries thereof as they were before the Great War. being used in public schools ot the Province. He fur- ther stated that the department had issued regulations making maps with 1the proper boundaries part of imbue school equipment. Mr. Miller replied that in one sec- tion of his riding. "obsolete" maps were still in use in the school, and that the Trustees had told him that the Department of Education had still to issue new and proper maps. The Prime Minister. however, re- iterated his statement that proper maps were available.

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