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,M.arclt 20'H. * Mr. Sinclair--Working at outdoor . x sports, ch? j None of the inspectors, witness stated, were chartered accountants, but they were officials who were qualified for their particular job, and men of experi-- M U S T PAY C L A l MS ence. [ Mr. Sinclair--How much extra rev-- enue has been collected since 1927 as < a result of your checking--up? f Witness--I cannot say. Mr. Sinclair--And you, the Control-- bnationnage y ie n ons se ) ler of Revenue, cannot tell this com-- mittee? Would it be $5 or $10 more? M0d|f|ed Form Of Compulsopy _ Witness--I would say so. | 6 Mr. Sinclair--Well, how much more , Insurance Law |ntr0- than that? | s Witness--I'm not good at guessing. duced for Ontario Mr. White said that in one instance' jevom irmbieenern nrorrmenipenecty --during the last week, in fact--his . department had collected $12,000 in RENAMING OF HIGHWAYS arrears in taxes from one broker. | nnmpenn en noae Mr. Sinclair--How much did you tss get in other instancts of this sort? ' _ Two important pieces of legislation Witness--I would have to 100Kk ) were brought down to the Ontario Leg-- :g;:ug ;2: ;:Ogfi ofI t'u?eo'::go;:.ke someg L?lature yt'asterday afternoon, and given Mr. Sinclair--It took some time to| first reading. keep it out of the books. | _ One would give the Highways Depart. |_ _ Mr. White stated, on examination,.' ment full control over and powers to gat m}f Toronto Stock Exchange had license "contract carriers." The second enhc ecked, and about one--half Of' bill incorporates, in slightly modified the houses on the Standard Exchange.. form, the recent recommendations R:ev. A. C. Calder (We.:n Kent) (,'.b'f made by Mr. Justics Hodgins, the Royal served that Mr. Slnf:lair vyas trying" "of Commissisner investigating. along with put something in witness's mouth. £ : the automobile insurance rates ques-- Mr. Sinclair--You ask the question, tion, the problem of compulsory insur-- then. ! ance. Mr. Calder--I will not. | _ "This bill," said Mr. Henry, "is really Mr. Sinclair--Well, let .me.' | an answer to the request in some quar-- Mr. White stated that it would take : ters for compulsory insurance. It is not a force of 100,000 inspectors to make & | compuisory insurance. but it requires all prope'r audit of the brokers books---i those who have been in an accident that is, to follow each and every trans-' and have been convicted of an infrac-- action through to an end. t tion of the law to 'make good, and Mr. Sinclair--So, then, the matter brings them under a sort of compulsory of a complete check--up becomes an im-- ) insurance arrangzements." possibility. Obviously, we can't have| Mr. Henry gave a short review -- of a force of 100,000 officers. It naturally | roaq development in Ontario since the follows that the Government has to | beginning of the century. At the present rely on the brokers' word--the week!y | gime, he said,. there were 1,950 miles of statements which have been filed f°"i pavement in the Provincial Highway so long. s | System, made up as follows: Concrets, The committee adjourned to meet On | g5g miles: asphaltic concrete, 210; Monday next at 10.30 a.m. ! mixed macadam. 250; bituminous pene-- tration, 230; macadam roadway, 405. The Minister referred to the Highway Commission of 1913, headed by C. A. Magrath, and showed how its major recommendations had been adcpted. * Mr. Henry quoted the following fig-- ures of mileage of pavement built in recent years: 1920--21, 43 miles; 1922, 116 miles; 1923, 146 milss; 1924, 180 + miles; 1925, 207 miles; 1926. 190 miles; 1927, 235 miles; 1928, 229 miles:; 1929, 244 miles. This act also included a s>ction which wil! legislate a change of the nams *'*Provincial Highway" to "The King's' Highway." Mr. Henry exhibited to the Hous2, for the first time, one of the new road designation plates which will take the place of the triangular plates, long fam'liar to Ontario mctorists,. A repro-- duction of the new plate appeared in The Globs when approval of the design # was first given by Mr. Henry last fall. The Minister of Highways observed that 20 years ago he had run across a street in St. Louis bearing that name s "The King's Highway," and ever since then he had wondered why "we, of | Imperial Ontario," could not designats roads in the same fashion. Mr. Henry claimed that the new name would not only serve as an indication of this Province's great loyalty to the British Empire, but that, in years to come.l little children tramping the roads to R school would have ever before them al reminder of that allegiance.