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w F;Bvuav' *T % s fColoneI Kennedy Tables Re-- _ plies to Queries by Liberal Whip h ; The erection of grading stations, the complction of eleven co'd--storage plants and ten dry--storage plants f L since 1931. and extonsion of markets in the British Isles, the continent and K sections of Canada, were listed as ac-- complishments of the Ontario Market-- ing Board in information tabled by the Hon. T. L. Kennedy, Minister of Agriculture, during the Logislative session yesterday. The matecrial was produced in answer to a question ask-- | ed by Charles A. Robertson, Liberal | Whip. y | Coloncl Kennedy's answer ailso enumerated the methods employed in + extending the local markets and added . | that the board had assisted in the organization of co--operative cont-- panies, nineteen of which were in-- corporated during 1932, and had sent f trial shipments of barley, cheese, | honey and cattle to the British Isles. W. B. Somerset, Commissioner of | the board, received $3,000 and a :re clal warrant of $3,600 in connection m with fruit and vegetable marketing in 1931; $3,000 and a special warrant of $6,800 in conncction with milk mar-- koting in 1932; and $5,400 in 1933. * He also roceived traveiling expenses * *# totalling, during the three years, ap-- proximately $4,000. The board's appropriation for 1931 -- was $12,000, of which $11.050 was expended, and in a succosding year , $30,000 was appropriated, of which the | Ontario Growers' Market Council spent $9,223, and the Marketing Board spent $14,984. 3 In answer to a question asking the ---- s personnel of the Ontario Apprentice-- ship Board and the salaries of the * members, Premier Henry stated that J. B. Carswell, Hamilton; Ernest s Ingles, London, and F. S. Ruther-- % ford, Toronto, were appointed as & committee in 1928, as members of the board in 1932, and reappointed to the same position in 1933. No salaries are paid, but an allowance of $10 per diem t | is granted to wembers and an allow-- ance of $15 per diem to the Chairman, / Mr. Carswell, One member is an ex-- 4 | service_ man.. * 3 A a @ i+ P