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SIGNS OF BUCKETING SEEN AT GHRISTMAS Qualifications of Investiga-- tors Discussed by Ac-- counts Committee sOME ARGUMENTS OCcuR AIMED Information that inspectors of the Department of the Controller of Rev-- enue of the Ontario Government found signs of bucketing in their inquiries into brokerage affairs before Christmas. 1929, was given at the meeting of the Public Accounts Committee of the Legislature yesterday. This discovery was passed on to the Attorney--General's Department, it was stated. H. R. Boal, Chief of the Inspectors of the Controller's Department, testi-- ; fied before the committee, in reply to} examination by W. E. N. Sinclair,; Liberal Leader. There may or may| not be another sitting of this commit-; tee. This matter will be decided today,, and depends on the Opposition's de--| cision as to whether or not other offi--| cials will be asked to testify on the subject of the $620,314 stock transfer' tax in the public accounts. | During yesterday's sitting there were some moments of argument between Mr. Sinclair and Hon. William Finlayson, representing the Government, such as characterized the first meeting of the committee. Previous Callings. A statement before the committee showed the previous vocations of in-- spectors under Mr. Boal as follows: Manufacturer and salesman, commer-- cial traveller, business, high school, bookkeeping, clerk in Registrar--Gen-- eral's Department, and accountant. He stated that there were quite a few instances in which the tax was not paid. Moreover, he said, it was shown that in the past there were some cases in which dues were not paid on house accounts. When Mr. Boal gave details of the brokerage inspection he stated that now stock deals were incorporated in the reports. He expressed the opinion that the Province did not receive the full tax in past years. Mr. Boal stated that the audit in con-- nection with the Security Frauds Pre-- vention Act should aid in collection of taxes in his department, so far as auditing was concerned, but he em-- phasized that his inspectors were not called on for an audit, but an inspec-- tion. Former Schoolboy. Mr. Sinclair recalled that one inspec-- tor was a "former high school boy." He wondered how Mr. Boal could expect this chap to go into an office and make a report. "He's a very efficient man,." said Mr. Boal. Mr. Sinclair also pressed questions in regard to the work of an inspector who was a former commercial travel-- ler. Mr. Boal declared in regard to all this that the inspectors were well qualified, because they had to deal with one act, and not witn the many mat-- ters which concerned chartered ac-- countants. Mr. Boal, in reply to other questions, stated that his department had evi-- dence of bucketing before Christmas, 1929, though it was not considered positive until a check--up was made. Mr. Sinclair read regulations of 1911 in regard to affidavits from brokers. Mr. Finlayson maintained that the regulation was not an order, but "per-- missive." BY TAX INSPEGTORS the, The Optometry Act of 1930--a very Proposals 'that the use of dogs in ev--; contentious measure, which was aimet the hunting of deer be abolished were ind directly at the mail--order business ir emphatically quashed by the Game and n' optical supplies, and which had one Fish Committee of the Ontario Legis'i 88| airing before the Municipal Law Com-- lature yesterday. | th¢ | mittee of the Legislature--met an un-- Even the suggestion of Hon. Charles| the |expected fate before this body yester-- McCrea, Minister of Mines, that the | CIN |day afternoon when last week's adop-- committee, in the interests of conser--| @s/tion of the principle of the measure yation and as an experiment, might was rescinded, and the Legislature, as well eliminate the dogs in the open 0S a whole, was asked to appoint a spe-- season section lying north of the $U-- / cial committee to study the question French River, was met with a point-- ' .w!during the recess, and to report back blank "No!" Ail+ at the 1931 session. Chief opposition to the "cut--out--the-- n&4Yy' The bill, as a consequence, expired dogs" movement developed _ from "!t~ on the spot. Thomas H. Bell, Conservative member day:| Karl K. Homuth (Conservative, South for Bellwoods; Coulter McLean, Con-- C°-- wWaterloo) and Wilfred Heighington servative member for Eglinton; Hon. {i-- | (Conservative, St. David's) were the William D. Black, Conservative mem-- t"°|mover and seconder of the motion re-- ber for Addington,. and D. J. Taylor, sfer sulting in a year's hoist for the meas-- Progressive member for North Grey. werel _ m i mss n l _ _ _ _NX. -- __ . Would Stop Hunting. NAMING COMMITTEE !Aourrion or Docs BRINGS QUIGK END ror ryntinc prr? T0 OPTOMETRY AC :s ppatty rrruso) Special Body Will Repor Back to Legislature Next Year MaYc;\ 2.'7"7 Dr. Paul Poisson (Conservative, North | "gtop us using dogs," warned Mtr. Essex) precipitated the aforesaid action, Bell, in belligerent tones, "and I am indirectly or otherwise, when he claimed through. T'll never go hunting again. that too important a question was in-- 'And neither will the Grenville Hunt volved in the bill "to pass it so late clup, of which I am a member. And this session." neither, I submit, will 75 per cent. of Earle Lawson, one of the counsel sup-- the hunters who now go into the bush porting the principle of the bill, en-- after deer." Earle Lawson, one of the counsel sup-- porting the principle of the bill, en-- deavored to address the committee be-- fore the Homuth motion was put, but was howled down. Essex Member Advised to Bring It Back Again THRESHERS' LIEN BILL OUSTED IN COMMITTEE Municipal Law Committee of the Legislature yesterday rejected the bill of Austin B. Smith (Conservative, South Essex) providing for giving threshers a lien in certain cases. Hon. William Finlayson, Chairman of the committee, suggested that Mr. Smith "bring the bill back another Most committee members took the attitude that there were insufficient farmers' threshing debts to warrant the passing of such a law. Mr. Smith stated that he would not be endorsing the bill if he thought it would work a hardship on the farmers. AT MAIL ORDEF 'LOSS OF LIFE FEARED Far More Kilied by Wolves, in Opinion of Game Committee Further suggestion that the use of dogs might be discontinued in mu-- nicipalities protesting against them was also frowned upon--this time, by Mr. Black, who said that any "patchwork" system of application was out of the question. Preponderance of opinion among the committee members was that far more deer were killed by wolves than by hunters using dogs; that even if the use of dogs increased the kill in deer it more than made up for this by cutting down the loss of human life in the [bush. 'Due to Still Hunting. "What would happen?" he argued. "As soon as the season opened you would find residents of those districts that had abolished the dogs throwing their rifles over their shoulders, slip-- ping chains around their dogs, and in-- vading territory where the dogs could be run." , Mr. Taylor, who is a well--known sportsman and naturalist, felt that rather than do away with the use of dogs, the committee should recommend prohibition of the killing of deer in the water. It was only in the water that deer chased by dogs were killed. The majority of hunters posted on run-- 'ways nowadays, were Sso "green," he said, that they couldn't for the life of them hit a moving deer. Speaking from 27 years' experience as a physician in the district of Al-- goma, Dr. J. M. Robb told the commit-- ltee that in that time he had had cto attend seven or eight cases of shooting accidents, and that, in every instance they had been due to still hunting.