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Afml 1B . | 66 . P "POT 9» , [R ABINB! PHEASANT "POT--HUNTERS FE ARED BY SINCLAIR _ ARE ASSAILED BY NIXON (nlees uenc ecpe i Nee erieeertverrecararaicitns : \Claims T hey Shot T hirteen T ame Birds on His Land-- AS EFFECT OF BlLL! License Gives No Right to Trespass, in mindmbess l Challies Notes cWliriespreneeseiaste esiveoes trnrennte ce iereartrnicas. Opposes Measure Pl'OVldln The Ontario Legislature heard two--| passing' signs on my farm, and do f m . s day pheasant hunts roundly scored by | not intend to." or Provincial Power | |Progressive Leader Harry Nixon yes--| Hon. G. H. Challies, Minister of + | |terday afternoon when clauses of the| Game and Fisheries, observed that Ventures in North | k:&to amend the Game and Fisherics|the gun license did not give hunters be uen iigrenserer ie is iregecs were being considered in Com--| the right of trespass, even if the signs , mittee of the Whole. Mr. Nixon term-- | were not up. He held, however, that _ Declaring that the legislation asked ed those who went out on the hunts | hunters' licenses had helped the Prov-- |was of a radical nature, and that it "pot--hunters--so--called sports." He|ince in the propagation of pheasants paved the way for other such occur-- declared that hunters "had walked |and they had a right to expect an rences as the Abitibi power purchase, over his land as if they had a tEeflect. open season. The department had re-- W. E. N. Sinclair, Liberal House | right to do so," and had shot thirteen | ceived advice that it would be well to Leader, took objection in the Legis-- pheasants which had been reared on | allow the killing of some cock birds, ' lature yesterday to an amendment to -- the farm and had become very tame. | he said. + \ the Power Commission Act, which "The birds are gone now," said Mr. The Minister also explained shat would provide that developments in Nixon, "but I was very sorry to see | the trespass clause in the Game and unorganized districts in Northern On-- them go, and I certainly will never | Fisheries Act put more teeth in legis-- tario are proceeded with as Pro-- propagate them again. I condemn | lation than the Common Trespass vincial ventures on terms of agree-- this open season in the most emphatic | Act has, Stiffer penalties were pro= ment between the Province and the terms. I have never posted 'No tres-- | vided, |Commlssiou. In spite of his oppo-- sition, the bill was given second read-- ing without a division. The amendment also provides that where power developments take place in such districts the deficits may be charged to suspense accounts, and provision is to be made for the charg-- ing off of these deficits, The Liberal « House Leader also objected to the an-- nual report of the Hydro Commission 'being tabled on the second last day * of the session, when, according to the statutes, it should have been brought down on March 1. "I suppose they are so busy down there adding up ' their salaries," he observed in con-- nection with the delay. ' Hon. J. R. Cooke, Chairman of the Commission, in explaining the bill, re-- € viewed the several developments in s Northern Ontario. Pressure had been brought to bear on the Government to have the services extended at vari-- ous times, he remarked. And it was * as a result of this that the 100,000 horsepower contract was signed by the Hydro with the Abitibi Development. The district was crying out for cheap power, he said. And the Commission was able to transmit the power 225 miles to Sud-- bury at a cost of $18 per horsepower. "This was an achievemept of which o the Hydro is proud," he said, compar-- ing it to the $24 per horsepower cost to Toronto of power from Niagara, ninety miles away. The legislation asked for would allow the Wahnapitae, Ear Falls, Nipissing and Abitibi plants in one unit, and this would make for cheaper power, he explained. "The Minister has failed to explain the working out of the bill," objected Mr. Sinclair. "Under the 1930 bill the whole financing of such develop-- ments was to be left with the Com-- mission. This leaves it under the Province of Ontario. In other words, f the legislation would enable the Abitibi to be repeated legally. If this goes through there can be another Abitibi and no legislation would be required to confirm it." ,