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*A y ¥ * k difads e ' é Mn " o , e : y | s March 5 §A s o omm mmmmen ce n omm o g. o mnmmmmmmmemmmmn ammmmemmmemmmmmmue mmmug 1 f !Texl of Minute & . . $5455 ROAD Said Suppressed FOR QUINTUPLETS | poommmmmmemmmmmmmmmemms | . Given m H 'Heenan Reports on Out-- _ | Il " 3 B ; lays in North I smmmmnenemmmmmmmmmmmmmee 7 - X \ _ Expenditures in all services under 4 # 1 _ Indicates *All Engineers onl Oy o o fh Laparnent of e Northern Development for the year | _ Agreed as to Future ending Oct. 31, 1934, totalled $23,-- ' 800,000, according to a report tabled i 1 : | Power Demands in the Ontario Legislature by the Hon. | lt tiiterrermereeree rerrsaccemee Peter Heenan, Minister of Lands and | Forests. | _ This is the Ontario Hydro--Electric _ 'The major portion of the year's ex-- | Commission minute which Hon. W. penditure was accounted for in can-- | H. Price in the Legislature yesterday | nection with trans--Canada highway | charged was suppressed by Hon. I work, $6,275,000, and general works in | Arthur Roebuck when he delivered his the North undertaken as unemploy-- | Hydro contract power indictment. Hon. ment relief works, $13.752,000. In this | Arthur Roebuck denied the allega-- connection the report indicates that | tion, reminding that he had read the the sum of $1,992,000 was repaid by |last paragraph. Mr. Price thereupon the Federal Government in 1934 and | conceded that the minute was not that $1,856,000 is owing from 1933. | deliberately suppressed. & The report indicates that the North | '"The Chief Engineer submitted a Bay--Callander road work, to provide | report dated May 18, 1929, respecting access to the home of the Dionne ,the future power supply for the quintuplets cost $5,455. The sum of | Niagara system, a copy of which is $92,582 was expended on the new road 'attached to the page opposite and is into Algonquin Park from Dwight, with 3 made a part of these minutes showing twenty miles of highway having been o the power at present available, to-- graded during the year. _ gether with a summary of the antici-- pated increase in load, and the sources from which such anticipated increase . could be provided for up to 1936--37. "This increase, as shown in the re-- port referred to, amount to 80.000 horsepower in 1932, and increased up to 190,000 horsepower in 1936--37. mak-- | ing a total in the six years involved of f 850.000 horsepower. The details of | this report had been before the Com-- mission for some time aAnd it was finally considered at this meeting. The Chief Engineer reported that all the | associated engineers in charge of the | various branches of the engineering ts * | department concurred in the report as | presented. * C \ --"The Chairman requested that these | engineers attend before the Commis-- s | sion and personally express their rea-- sons in support of the report in ques-- | tion. Mr. Hogg, hydraulic engineer; ' Mr. Don Carlos, operating engineer; ® | Mr. Brandon, construction enginéer, h ' and Mr. R. T. Jeffrey, municipal en-- | gineer, were then called in. | "They individually and collectively voiced their approval of the report, | produced their records and gave their several experiences in connection with the demand for, anc_i_ supply of, Hydra power over the past ten years They * recommended the adoption of the re-- " port, particularly with reference lo the estimated annual increases in de-- mand from 1931 to 1936, which, it is estimated, will be approximately 850,-- 000 horsepower, as set out in page 5@ of the memorandum referred to, ex= plaining fully their reasons for the conclusions reached by them. Mw. R. T. Jeffrey expressed the opinion that the Commission would require an even greater quantity than the 850,000 horsepower within the period referred to. "A general discussion followed in respect to the desirability of the Com-- * * mission being in a position to take f care of additional dewelopments. Ali of the engineers present were strong-- ly of the opinion that the Commission should acquire the O'Brien proper-- ties on the Madewaska and Bonn:-- chere Rivers, the Dominion Power anc Transmission Company's propertics, as well as those of the Canadian ; Niagara Power Compary, on the broad grounds of a sound Provincial policy. They were unanimous in re-- spect to the desirability of securing | the three properties referred to."