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T4 es Jaf~/lg'b m €#-- Jmalg the latter including the amendment to the Power Commission Act and the 'Municipal Franckhise Act, and the bill fCr the further protection of beaches. The House in committee passed seyv-- jeral measures which included the amendments to the Highway Traffic | Act and the Extra Provincial Corpora-- ; tions Act. The House was told yesterday after-- noon _ by Attorney--General Price that there were 15,631 convictions 7__4 fc;r ii;;élkeméess du;iing the fiscal year j 4 . L2 7 0 and of this number 15,349 U E'.SJQ/'A \& /"C/{ !o~4 . were men. He had been asked by an Opposition member how many arrests were made for drunkenness that year 4 and as for that he stated that no in-- * . <fcormation was available. He also stat-- . ed that there was no information avail-' able as to arrests for drunkenness and conviction in the fiscal year of 1918. The House also received the follow-- ing informaticn in replies to questions: ON SLE[GH WIDTH ACT $20,227.75 for "Great Men." i The Province purchased and distri-- | buted 20,000 copies of "Great Men of esn !'Canada" among public and separate OP ; schools, collegiate institutes, high{ Liberal Leader Foresees lschools, continuation schools and vG--| cational schools, training schools,' 1 Protests From Rural | teachers' institute librarieT.bdepartmen(-1 } i tal inspectors, public libraries and | Sections members of the Legislature. The cost' 4 (Ne ce im ies e en coryrester oag | was 96 cents per copy, which with ', wrapping and mailing cost made a SUPPORT OF ROADS BODY total amount of $20,227.75. ; From November 1, 1907, to the end } mm--mmcciaaaiars 1 of October, 1918, 15,955 squbare 1rjnilf}s of Extensiv bate i . s \ timber limits were leased by the Gov-- 'Legislaturee Ssetead ; in .the Om.a.no ernment. From November, 1918, to the NC yesterday afternoon, which end of October, 1924, the Government | involved dispuute between Hon. CGeorge leased 13,284 square miles, and from S. Henry, Minister df Public Works and ' that d;itg unltil 7t1%i4end of last':IOCtober 1lighway 7 7i Hrant {| an additional 17, square miles. L 1';:; :"13:'5' and Willizam E. N. Sinclair, |" mhis makes a total of 47,013 SQUATC | al Leader, as to which was the bet-- | miles of timber limits leased by the |ter farmer, was occasioned on second Government since 1907. |reading of the bill to establish the The 250,000 illustrated tourists hand-- | width of sleigh runners to conform book of Ontario printed in colors with | with automobile tracks. envelopes, also in colors last year, cost } T. J. Mahoney (Conservative, South the Government $20,210.50. Postage for | Wentworth), sponsor of the measure, ! same cost $2,100. lemphasized that it was a bill strongly "The makers of Canada," called the | endorsed by the Ontaric Good Roads "Oxford encyclopaedia of Canadian | Association. But Mr. Sinclair pictured history," published in a set of 12 vol-- it as one that worked a hardship on umes and distributed to the elemen-- the farmers of the Province. And he tary and secondary schools of Ontario declared that if the Government backed _ ; and the "Oxford course in Canadian the measure, it would stir up protests | history," consisting of 12 brochures on in the rural sections which might ef-- ; different phases of Canadian develop-- fect the unscating ¢f the Government ' ment, accompanied by maps and in the next election. In fact Mr. Sin-- ' charts, cost the Government $33.900 clair told the Government that so far last year. Seven hundred and eighteen as this bill was concerned now was i sets of cach woere distributed. the time "to use the axe." He wanted o » is Mr. Hentry, leading the Government in !l'ire Marshal's Assistants. i |the absence of Premier Ferguson, "to | Attorney--General _ Price yesterday: say that this is not a bill io clutter brought down an act to amend the Fire up committee." |Marshal's Act. This new legistation: But Mr. Henry believed that the prin-- would provide, among other things, that ciple of Mr. Mahoney's bill should re-- ! "whenever in any urban municipality l ceive the Governments endorsation. | a Firse Preveation Bureau has been es-- \HMe knew of a great demand for some-- tablished by order of the Council or thing along the lines Cf this measure. where the Chief of the Fire Department And, he adiled, he had been talking of any urban municipality has assigned | to "the housewives of North York" and one 'or more members of the depart-- I knew that they would back this pro-- ment to the duties of fire prevention I posed legislation, | officers, then and in all such caseghthe I C % men constituting the Bureau, or those Date Could Be Changed. } appointed by the Chief of the Fire De-- As it stands the bill provides that ' partment, shall be 'Assistants to the the change in runner widths g0d into Fire Marshal'® and shall be possessed of effect on Dec. 1, 1929. Mr. Mahoney / o -- aegreed that if this was considered "too _ | all the powers given to them under the seonmn" the ecommittee could change the Fire Marshal's Act." | date. Another proposal was that the, | » 'hill to be amended so that it will not Iiy an amendment fo the Infanis 'affect existing cutters but only future Act--also intreduced to the House manufacture. But on this latter point" yesterday--the Attorney--General seeks-- | | Mr. Henry declared, "It would take us | | to establish it law that wherever it |I ;ga%x?g\ffra;llgil;h(:."' two to get rid of the| | may appear to the Judge of the Sur-- | | _Mr. Sinclair told the House that the rogate Court that default has been | |present width of runners conformed made in payment of money to an in-- :E ;'g:fg' R?f l}iitg';;'g \&fm';'egea{g Osfa ;'Ogle:é fant, the person in default may be | |harses could be hitched to conform summoned to explain; that where the | |with the width of the vehicle and he person summoned does not ap-- y jreferred I'J'?'ticullax'}y to ttlllle the h of _ pear, or sufficient reason for his ab-- } :grng?:&memgg- as ';:i'&t ltl% So Mx? S(;g: sence is not given, an arrest may be * §1 i M# f s h dered; and that where the person ' clair, "that I have driven a wagon or * o . $ more miles than he. And this just| . in default fails to satisfy that such ide- ' : shows that he's not a lawyer but spends fault is due to inability 't?h pay, lm- --| his time in a law office." =xr;!r;;or{)rge;nitv erflor three months or léess '. well," said Mr. Sinclair, "my father | Colonel Price brought down a third was only a poor man on a farm, but l di the Trust and --| I've driven horses and know how they | bill--an act amending the 'Lru n| are hitched." _ | Loans Corporation Act to the extent of 1* | | giving this class of corporation the Fair to Every One. ! | same power for inves;lment purptoges t Provincial charter as ey Mr. Henry went on to say that only| | URGE® & C ov x last uieek a roads convention urged | ;'g'gn have under Dominion incorpor some legislation such as that in Mr.; * . 4 Mahoney's bill and for the Government | In an amerildzncexrlx't tg tl.lf'erdf ubgg he said that it should go on to com-- Utilities Act introduced yesserdady _ W. S. Weichel (Conservative, North mittee where an attempt could be made o | Waterloo). the City of Kitchener, asks to draft something that would be fair o c anls 2 i permission to allow ajoining munici ' toS%vetrg Otr)';i.i iven second read--' palities, townships, etc., the privilege of ing. € was K securing gas through the Commission. Sesond reading was given to several private bills and Government measures,