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February 24¥ FWE MONTHS NET | BILL WOULD PROTECT DRIVERS FROM SUITS OF ABITIBI POWER Automobile drivers would be pro-- ;ucted from damags actions by pas-- sengors under a bill introduced at Y°S-- Ms 'terday's Legis'lature session by Charles § : A. Robertson, Liberal Party Whip. The object of the legislation is to | have passengers ride iat ttl;glr own risk . in private cars. Taxis and busses avte Cooke Reports Revenue to| excluded from the provisions of the | bill. October 31 Last Was Another msasure from the Opposi-- tion side was introduced by T. K. $]25,097 Slack (Liberal, Dufferin). Mr. Slack cmmmnemmemnmmom i ce proposed an amendment to the Game | = and Fishories Act, whereby farmers] DETAILS BUYING TERMS would gain further 'proteciion from | commmemmmmesmmmemeizss indiscriminate -- hunting over t,heir!| Revenue fom the Abitibi Canyon 'property. Municipal .CounciL:s would | development between May 25 last, , 'be enabled to prohibit hutzuing on | when it went int> operation, and the | private property without written pet» | close of the Provincial fiscal year, Oct. mission from the owner, and wibhout. -- _ 3i, totalled $125,097, according to Hon. the necossity of notive being given. | J. R. Cooke's reply to an Opposition question at yesterday's sitting of the Legislature. Operating costs for the same period woere $60,554. Mr. Cooke detailed terms by which Hydro acquired the power site. On-- tario Power Seorvice bonds to the amount of $19,583,000 were taken in exchange for Hydro debentures tctal--| . ling $17,625,125, and guarantced by the Proviace. The purchase price was| $14,000,000, and Hydro pald into court $291,550. Assets of the firm on Hydro's| . purchase included a plant on which $15,146,607 had been spent, while $23,-- * 697,302 was held in trust. To a question as to the amount of capital account or bonds, exclusive of Hydro, T. & N.O. Railway and Agri-- cultural Development Board, which have been actually paid, and not re-- * funded, during the past five years, the h Government replied that proceeds from the sale of Provincial bonds go into the Consolida*ted Revyonue Fund, so, £ that the information requested was not| available. | f Payments to W. N. Tilley, K.C., for legal services during the past fiscal| year amounted to $22,514, Progressive | Leader Nixon was told. Premier Henry | added that, since the close of the| . fiscal year, Mr. Tilley had been paid | ®" : $15,000 for furthor services. | To an inquiry regard Provincial fly--| ing services, Hon. William Pinlayson answered that $424,006 had been spent * by the Province on this brarch dur-- ing 1933. The 8,722 flying hours last year showed a reduction from 1932. | FOR ANSWERING QUERIES? Amuses Supporters With Figures on Amusement Levy Arrears--Hall in McQuibban's Riding Owed 24 Cents in 1933 | Deluged with questions from the|cent debt of Wroxcter Town Hall was | Opposition, Premier Georgs S. Henry "I)'e}fek(f}%fifig and tl:lg:fia%zwas 4 (t::n;s. * e 0 year cents to iR got a little of his own back iN "i° | amount due, while 1933 opened with a House yesterday, and he made th* ) 24--cent debt of Arthur Village's Town most of the occasion, which was his| Hall, in L/beral Leader McQuibban's reply to a query demanding detai's of | riding. "He should st:'r up his con-- overdue amusement taxes during the | stituents," declared Premier Henry. past four years. While his support-- More applause greeted the an-- ers banged desks. chuckled and ap-- | nouncement that the Elgin Theatre, * plauded, he read the list of all those| Port Elgin, had paid $12.25 of its in debt to the Government on that| $24.75 debt, and expected to settle score sincs 1930. j the rest shortly. That ycsar's figures opened with: The grand total for the four years "Ukrainian Labor--Farmers' Temple,| was $13.03. "It shows very definitely St. Catharines, 1 cent," and reached |the Liberal Brain Trust is running a total of 37 cents. In 1931,'the 2-- out of material.'" claimed Mr. Henry. *