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M arch 3| + s = f !SINCLAIR CHEQUE CHARGES ! ED BY 1 T ER Finlayson Says Contractor W as Being Paid Amounts Due Him for Previous Work, Although | ; No Longer Employed ', Hon. William Finlayson, Minister of considerable credit remaining, which \Lands and Forssts, offered an expla--|the engineer in _ charge under--, | nation in the Legislature last night to tr'&(;kt t?e'ga%ggtgg °;':qt'g: dcltlzgltflogn the | t + @AIr ;tbe charges made by William E. N.!rate, although Melnick was no longe¥ | Sinclair that men had been paid by | actually employed. 'the Administration of ths Northern While the engineer cexcceded his | Dovelopmcnt long after they had left |authority, said Mr. Finlayson, there | the employ of the Government. | was no suggestion of irregularity, and The Minister stated that in the Melnick received only what was com--| case moniioned by Mr. Sinclair a man | ing to him. | namsd Melnick tock a contract for| Mr. Finlayson offered to turn over | the rcmoval of earth at Mileage 488 | to Mr. Sinclair full explanation of the ; cn the basis of sa much a cubic yard. incident, as disclosed in the docu--| By working long hours he performed}monts which the dopartment had re-- | in two m;nths and two days work | czsived from officials in the North, and' which wou'd have taken 191 days on |assured the Liberal Leader that he | | the bosis of an eight--hour day. Since ) might take up the investigation in t,he\ \ the depertm>nt could only pay on the | Public Accounts Commiittes at the | bas's of an eizht--hour day at 30 c--nts |noxt sossion of the Legislature if he] 'an hour, Mcolnick consequently had 'desired to press the matler further, on y agueauaiugue uw t raes o uce ue o en n e uicA e ga tss ies i uces aieg i sacngaeeata it uc canaie poil 03e y auta es e us ucce avadoad 4# 81 Gun License for Farmers 's Park _ Rumored at Queen's Par Rumors around Queen's Park , game laws that will provide for are to the effect that the Ontario | th% revisignt l;:o?t&mplate% $ ¥ n 4 | eman a e gun license be Qovernmen.t, will modify 1Ls: BUN ) removed altogether have becn fre-- license policy before the present | quent and emphatic this ssssion, session closes so as to reduce to a | and they have not bsen confined cost of $1, in the case of all farm-- | entirely to Opunosition mambers. ors, the $2 license which applies |_ Several Conservative members are g*nerally in many counties of the | _ said to have waited on Mr. Mc-- B wirovince at the present time. |, Crea, urging the reduction sug-- Hon. Charles McCrea, Minister | gosted. § in charge of the Game and Fish-- | Ever since the inceptin of the erias Department, is expected to | license, Hon. Harry C. Nixon, bring down to the House today or ( Progressive Leader, has taken the «umorrow, an amendment to the lead in opposing it. | j APPROVED BY CUSTOMERS | ho. K * Ns | | \Union of Municipalities Tells Government It Is m\ | & o | Favor of Project--Further Plans in | | Abeyance | dnmewnneommmmmomememonpmmenmeatmarey, . im wanaacancrinm l ! The exceculive of the Union of consulting mun'.cipaliti}es Iim'lmajor'i *Js InlfsAIrlek sctarpe ra;« | quses.ions. Lasi ycoar the Legis ature | Hydro Municipalities yesier@ey 3359 | yorsq s1300,000 for this building. In | | before Hon. John Robart Cooke:, A¢t-- |\ nis r--marks Mr. Cooke explained that | ing Chairman of ths Ontario Hydro | the hcadquarters staff had far out-- |Powsr Commission, its aproval of grown iis present building, and ac--| the project of a new administration | commodation was found in thirteen | building for the Commission. Mr.\premises. some of them pnyate resi-- \Cooke made this statement in the | dences, around the building. Mr. | Legislature during discussion of the | Cooke, interviewed later, could not say Hydro estimates and as an illustra-- what action would probably follow the tion of the Commission's policy of l report of the executive of the union,