Mare h 30 Much Fiddling 'Round j Much Done Without Muc r Is Legislator's Opinion 6 Technical Law Changes. Newest M.P.P. Is Remind-- _ naw--Technical changes in a num-- * ber of statutes. ed of County Council-- " Fish and game--Moose closure south s 6t 1 Oof French River, enabling legislation Review of "Lame Duck" for marketing of game birds; hunters £ * license buttons. |\ _ Ression Is Test fOr Northern development--Completion -- of the east and west sections of the ] Memory 9 Apart FrOM trans--Canada highway, with increased pay for workers. | Beel' Land and forests--Investigation of | l lumber camp conditions. | Education--Minor amendments. ; |\ "Well," said the newest member,| 'Treasury--Minor amendments. t |\ "there's a lot of fiddling 'round with--| Hydro--Permission to Commission lout getting much done, but I'd been to do its own borrowing. f used to that on the County Council." _ Actually, Government legislation| | _ Thus did D. M. Campbell, Liberal, was of such a character that it called | | from East Kent, sum up his first Leg--| for no great opposition. What there |islature session. Private members'| was of contest was left mainly in bhe | opinion on both sides of the House dldl hands of Hon. Harry Nixon, Progres-- \ not differ greatly from that of the| sive Leador. Liberal House Leader | newcomer. | McQuibban confined his efforts chief-- 1538 Bills Reached Table. ly to his pet subjects of the Hydro T » | _ The fifth, or lame--duck, session ot | 23 440 PORG Do EiE viant, The \the Province's Eightcenth Legislature . ia th | | Agriculture _ Committee _ la | closed yesterday, after passing the beer ra investigations \ bill and certain other legislation that groundwork for Ottawa investigat: nobody could recall on the s +~--| of the live stock and tobacco in-- | spur of thcl The Labor Committee, dor-- \ moment. Between the wintry after--| dustrics. The Started an in \ noon in late January, when it opened,| mant for a decade, & ction in-- \and the wintry afternoon in late| portant inquiry into construuu Com-- March when it ended, an enormous|dustry abuses; the Legal PB a number of speeches had been made, a | mittee probed Liberal charges rc';;"i.i{'a- hundred--odd desks had been periodi--| ing Magistrate McCaughrin of wss cally pounded, and 158 bills had and the Public Account:s Comm ttee] reached the table of the House. They| studied D. Paul Munro's allegations | started with the Act Respecting the regarding highway payrolls in Eigin| Mount Mackay and Kakabeka Falls| County. f Railway, and they ended with the Act| -- But beer was the big issue, whether Respecting the Handling of Gasoline.| or rot it will figure largely in the Sandwiched between them in the fat| coming campaign. The Opposition split . bill--book were measures affecting sim--| widely, with Liberal and Progressive ilar important phases of the Province's chieftains on opposite sides. The vote, business. . widely touted in the Government The Government proposed to the | press, probably will have little actual final session that routine amendments| effect in the campaign, since the ; be made to departmental statutes, and | mection will be fought between Pre-- | that beer be sold by the glass. ThC) mier Henry and Milchell F. HepDUrN. | Heuse concurred. -- The Opposition| M.p., both committed to a locsening ?;lut;d d?vuizlsetd'om' and, on the lattcr| of the Liquor Control Act. | Aside from beer, Government legis-- | lation included: \| Health--Grouping of districts under a single medical officer; wider con-- trol over dairies; additional informa-- tion in maternal deaths. Labor--Tightening of the Minimum Wage Act to provide jail sentences for repeated infraction and a wage law for men competing with women in any industry. Highways--Removal of lnlustlee in insurance provisions; for truck--drivers' minimum wage:; action > against '"'bootleg" gasoline stations. | Agriculture--Enabling legislation in : conformity with the new Dom#fnion marketing statute; control of milk production and distribution by com-- mission; loans for seed grain; loans s to co--operatives.