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Provincial Premiers and Representatives of Fed-\ eral Government Will Officiate at Opening of Hawkesbury -- Grenville Bridge $96,000 Payment Is Ontario's Share Of Big Ottawa Span SUPPLEMENTARIES TOTAL $10,482,627 Along with Premier Taschereau of Quebec and representatives of the Dominion Government, Premier George S$. Henry of Ontario will, it is under-- stood, officiate at the spring--scheduled opening of the new Hawkesbury--Gren-- ville interprovincial bridge over the Ottawa River. | _ The new bridge is over 1,200 fecet in | length, has a 30--foot roadway and six-- | foot sidewalks, and is designed to take | care of the 90--mile gap on the Ottawa | that formerly existed between the City of Ottawa and the bridge at | Vaudreuil. Its completion will, it is | understood, improve road traffic condi-- tions immeasurably. Arrangements for the bridge's con-- struction were agreed to last summer, and the work on it is now being rushed rapidly to completion. With the arrival of mild weather the floors will be laid and the formal opening staged. Ontario's contribution to the struc-- ture amounts to $96,000, it became known for the first time yesterday, with the presentation to the Legislature of the Supplementary Estimates for the current fiscal year. The Province of Quebec will pay a similar amount, and the balance of the cost will be borne by the Dominion Government. Over 1,200 Feet in Length. t The supplementaries tabled yesterday aggregated $10,482,627.10. By depart-- ments the votes are as follows: Prime Minister's, $930,000; Attorney--General's, $177,850.15; Insurance, $5,300; Educa-- tion, $2,212,837; Lands and Forests, $350,240; Mines, $274,615; Game and Fisheries, $126,900; Public Works, $2,-- 452,861.77; Highways, $51,350; Health, $691,975; Labor, $15,740.63; Public Wel-- fare, $2,724,800; Provincial Treasurer's, $24,825; Provincial Auditor's, $5,000; Provincial Secretary's, $147,154.75; Agri-- culture, $273,177.80, and miscellaneous, $18,000. _ f e & _ Under the Mines Department, a vott of $232,000 is asked to provide for the cost of the erection and equipment of an extension to the Mining Building at' the University of Toronto; Public Works asks an additional vote of $350,000 to-- ward the new East Block section of the Parliament Buildings. Erection of : rew dairy barn in connection with the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph involves a vote of $12,000. The Chie Director of Hospital Services of th: Province. Dr. B. T. McGhie, is voted : salary of $10,000 in the Health esti "mates. Soldiers' Aid Change. _ _ Votes under the new Department 0 Welfare reveal that the Soldiers' Ai Commission, formerly under the juris diction of Attorney--General William F Price, will, in future, come under th jurisdiction of Hon. William G. Marti: Indication of the appointment of Deputy Minister of Public Works, wit a salary of $4,400, is also to be had from the same votes. A vote of $10,000 is asked by the Agriculture Department toward the establishment _ of the seed--cleaning plants which Hon. T. L. Kennedy ex-- pects to have in operation at an early date in this Province as an aid to the farmer and the agricultural industry in general. Cleaning of townsites and removal of fire hazardas calls for an additional vote to the Lands and Forests Department under Hon. William Finlayson of an additional vote of $80,000. For fire-- ranging and purchase of equipment and suppliss for the coming spring and summer fire hazard in the North the same department asks an additional vote of $250,000. OPTOMETRISTS SEEK: T0 OBTANMONOPOLY, comitTsd is TOLD AMENDNENTS ARE ARGUED People in Outiying Districts Said to Depend on Mail Order Charges that optometrists were seek-- ing to obtain a monopoly on the sale of eyeglasses "just as iniquitous as the A.B.C. combine" were made by Hamil-- ton Cassels at a mceting of the Special Commiittee of the Legi:lature appointed to consider amendments to the Opto-- metry Act at the Parliament Buildings yosterday. f B The amendments govern the sale of glasses by mail order and the use in such selling of mechanical instruments by which the purchaser measures or tests his own eyesight. Mr. Cassels, representing a firm which does a large mail--order business in eyeglasses and sencés an eye--tester to the prospective client, declared that the amendmonts "cloaked in technicalities an effort to obtain a monopoly in the sale of an article of merchandise." Many people in outlying districts, he said, had to dcpend on the mail--order houses for eyeglasses and would suffer if this source of supply were cut off. Ho!d Another Meeting. Both Mr. Cassel: and Edward Lazar-- esco, representine another firm doaling in g'lasscs by mail, af@rmed that the effect of the amconumnts would be to create a monopoly for socme 600 opto-- metrists in the Province, only absut forty of whom had graduated from the prescribed course. Mr. Casssls com-- pared the proposed provisions to a law requiring people to consult & lawyer --hefore signing agreements or ons com-- Hon. Dr. J. M. Robb, Minister of Health, presided at the committee. It was decided to hold anothcr meeting at a date to be arranged with a view to cl:aring up the effect of the amond-- ments. arce h 1(3 polling them <to see a doctor before buying castor oil. J. Earl Lawson, M.P., and Colonel J. Keiller MacKay, representing the-- Optometry -- Board, supporting -- the amendments, Ceclared that the aim of the claus s was to prevent organ-- izations misleading the public into be-- lieving that they could test their own eyes, A min unabe to read or write, zaid Colonel MacKay, hard betn en-- gaged as an agent by cne mail--order house in one East:rn Ontario city. Mr. Lawson emphasized that the objoct of the amendments was to provent maii-- craser hsuses from prescribirg by mis-- lcsailing custsmers into the belief that \they could test their own cyss. 4 \ ilard to Get Refunds. Police and cu:toms authoritiss, he asserted, ccou'd tell the comnmittse of difiiculiies encountered by customers in gotting reiunds for their money. If Ontario passed those amendmsnts, all Provinces would have optometry acts "with tecth," he said. In that case, he felt that the Dominicn wcould prohibit the use of the mails. H. Fmrclough, representing his own mail--order concerm, was told by the committee that there was no cbiection to his present custom of sending eye-- tosi cards, such as are used by cpticians, to out--of--town rustomers. The amendmeats to the act were in-- troducecd by A. E. Honeywe.l (Con-- servative, O'tawa No:th). Pricr to discussion of these amend-- ments, J. C. James, representing the College of Physicians and Surgeons, urged the committee to insert a clause prohibiting optometrists using the word docior. It was stated that this is al-- \ready provided in the Medical Act, and is forbidden by resclution of the Op-- tometry Board. Another amendment urged by Mr. James was to prohibit the use of drugs by optometrists in test-- ing eyes.