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ons -----m Ts "Ceow W w'""'"', C March 7 Subcommittee on Private. Dominion Schedule of In-- Bills Hands Over Two _ come Tax Collection Asked Measures | for Municipalities MANY ITEMS PONDEREDi CHANGE SOUGHI The principle of municipal guar-| 4 s antee to a private industry's bonds ; A lengthy list of ameondments to th: was considered yesterday aft.ernoonl Assessmenrt and Municipal Acts wer: by a subcommittee of the Legislature's : presented by private mermm'seors and re-- Committee on Private Bills, with the: Cf?l\'l.'d first reading at yestorday's ses-- result that measures emanatiing from sicn of the Legisliature. Most impor-- St. Thomas and Harriston will be tant of the proposed changes were in-- studi i corporated in bills presented by F. G. ;::::dbeby ho (?xxt.ario i Ne McBrien (Conservative, Brockton) and fore receiving Parliamentary Paul Munro (Liberal, Wellingion approval. A third bill, from South-- South). The first wou'ld pe:rmit munici-- ampton, was considered an exceptional palities to collect income taxes on case, and will require Municipal Board the same time--schedule as that em-- assent only to the terms under which ploved by the Dominion, in contrast debentures are issued. with the prosont practice of assessing The subcommitiee, under chair-- the tax ons year after the income was manship. of F. G. McBrien, Toronto, earned and coliecting it in the second had before it bills from St. Thomas, year. This, Mr. McBrien pointed out, providing municipal guarantee of is sometimes an injustice to the tax-- Carada Vitrified Progqucts Limited pa;;'r and a loss to the municipalitias. bonds to the extent of $45,000; from Mr. Munro's amendment would Harris.on, providing guarantee of elimmatc an inlfermediats appcal in' Royal Sterling Products Limited bonds * _ all assossment cases aggregating more to the extent of $35,000; and from than §10.000 in unorganized territory Southampton, providing guarantee of and $40,000 in the organized districts | Bell Furniture Company bonds to the ?x; tg.ot f":'u'.'mc[q. Infthos: cases, and| extent of $30,000. certain questions of law and munici-- % ® pal matters, appeal would lie diroct| Southampton's Well--Being. from the Courty Judge to the Court| The Southamp.on measure came of Appeals for Ontario. The amond--| first before the full Private Bills Com-- ment would increase th> right of the| mittee yesterday morning, when it was f courts to reopen assessment lists. | explained much of the town's well-- Amendments wereals> presonted by' being rested on continued operation i mm * ofa lthe geill factory. 'lt;)ae nmg;s finan-- F. Spence (Conservative, Fort Wil--| cial position was stated to be sound, |liam), A. P. Konning (Conservative, without indebtedness at the present |Cochrane South), D. M. Ross (Pro-- time. |\ gressive, Oxford North») ahnd Clifford Another subcommittee will deter-- \ Case (Conservative, York North). The mine the future of the bill whereby | bill, moved by Mr. Spence, gives fur-- Orillia seek« the right to extend its | ther protection to municipal telesphone municipal power development _ to systoms in matters of taxation; Mr.} Workman's Falls, near Minden. Other Kenning's act would permit the larger | provisions permit the municipality to townships to assess telephone and tele--| sell power over a radius of sixty miles graoh companies in the mannor em--. instead of twenty--five miles, as at| ployed in the cities; and Mr. Ross's | present. A. B. Thompson, ftor t.ne; proposal specifies that tax exemntion| town, explained the only new custom-- should be quarantoed on wood land ers involved were those in Minden and devoted mainly, if not solely, to re-- within two miles of the proposed f~restation. Mr. Case proposed a ! power line from there to Orillia, "We moasure providing pretection for 'don't want to trespass on Hydro ter-- "Barent municipalitiecs" in cases of ritory," he assured the committee. the creation of new municipalities and For Hydro, Hon. J. R. Cooke agreed amondmoents enabling by--law changes Orillia had s)ioneered in the public-- in Inilding codes. ownership field, but he suggested that nsm a subcommittee ascertain that inter--! ests of town ratepayers were fully protected under the bill. There was no t'garrel over principle between Orillia and Hydro, he added. | Speaking for Minden, T. H. Stinson,; M.P., said the village wanted cheap power, and did not care whether it bought it from Orillia or from Hydro.| $ Privilege Refused. York Township failed in its effort to achieve city status with regard to assessment of Bell Telephone property. Howard Hall explained that if York : were given a city's rights in this mat-- 'ter, the assessment on Bell poles and lines would rise from the present $848 to more than $100,000. Through Ken-- neth Dunstan the Bell Company ex-- pressed a fear that all the other 600 townships would seek similar privilege, and eventuall{;e he said, any riss in costs would reflected in higheor rates to consumers. The independent: companies agreed with Mr. Dunstan,| and committee members felt that any| change of the sort should be made through separate legislation, with the ~ | result that the clause was 'stru®% out. |The rest of the bill, relating mainly i | to election methods, received approval. ¢ Forest Hill's town-g:nnlnz proggsal received commendat from C ir-' man W. H. Price and approval from | the committee, The project is for zmrchase of park land north of Eglin-- on Avenue, with a general shift in * the village's industrial area to the t westerly side of the municipality, An-- other clause adopted a scientific method of determining whether fac-- tory smoke infringed municipal by-- laws. # 4