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® .l e '____.-------\ ; ' \ h C 0\-skaq. €b.! G Th 9 Why Weren't Producer and Consumer Protected? Asks Mewhinney MReferring to press reports that 6 told of the visit of a deputation to the Ontario Minister of Agriculture and protests against the sale of cereal cream containing only 8 per cenrt. butter fat, A. P. Mewhinney (Liberal, North Bruce) asked Hon. John --§. Martin in the Legislature yesterday why he hadn't taken im-- mediate steps to protect the pro-- ducer and the consumer. ; Mr. Martin explained why he had s decided that the matter should be considered by the Agricultural Com-- mittee of the Legislature. It was only within the last two weeks, said he, that he had been informed that there. was a loophole in the legisla-- tion so that an 8 per cent. butter-- fat product was being sold. 'The product, he noted, was not called cream, but went under another name. When he received the information he decided that with the session to be under way within a fortnight, the place to deal with the matter was in committee. TAX ON PRO HOCKEY TO YIELD LARGE SUM Ontario Athletic Commission Should Be Made Seli-- Supporting If revenue from its taxation of professional hockey lives un to ex-- pectations this winter -- $10,000 v}"orth.. in fact--the Ontario Athletic Commission will not only be made self--sustaining. but will be able to| set aside sufficient money to pay ' | back the $6,000 in Government afd which it has used during the past | two years. ( The annual report for the Com-- | mission, which was tabled in the 'Legislzuure yesterday, shows an ac-- | tual deficit for the year ending Oct. [ 51. 1926, of $8,.300. The act has only been in operation since last spring. From then until the end of October the revenue ac-- quired from various "pro" sports through the 2 per cent. levy -- on "gates" was as follows: Boxing, $2,799; hockey, $328.68; baseball, $2,152, and football, $663. Seven hundred and thirty dollars was realized from boxing purses. Expenses of coaching. generally. amounted tn $8 372 Legislature Hono Memory of Asquith The Ontario Legislature yes-- terday paid its tribute to the memory of the late Earl of Ox-- ford and Asquith. The British Empire, Premier Ferguson stated when the House _ opened, has suffered a great loss. On Tuesday Liberal Lead-- er Sinclair had spQgken of the great Britisher's grave condition. *"'Since then," continued Mr. Fer-- guson, "we have been informed that he has passed away. It is titting in all British Legislat-- ures that we should express our regret at the passing of a man who hag played such a great part in the expansion and the - development of this great Em-- pire." j %