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March 30 ---- _ /. !FreeM' tor Rides to Be (Latk of Propgrty _ At Risk of Passenger | "NoBarto Office" s ' Htiicecietee uen ie ic n ttegen tciecrermy ogeecs Geccec cz c cnenncmmmne McQuesten's Bill Before Legislature Will Remove |Rocbuck Holds Material Responsibility for Injuries From _ Wealth Not Necessary Car Owners for J.P. WNERS and drivers of motor cars will no longer be _ h:;fi::fif;;::;;::fi:fi"":' , 1§ un= responsible for the safety of "gratuitous" passengers |,,ble to bring to & judicial position should an accident take place, under a bill to amend !q"a"gcs of honesty, fairuess and soj udgm a Je the Highway Traffic Act introduced yesterday in the On-- _ | gone id fojfiaf:gf?m?he 19'1'['1- o tario Legislature by Hon. T. B. McQuesten, Minister of iion of Attorney--General Aithur w. Highways. mugk. iin the gnta.rio opg Igislature | yesterday. in counteri 5 It is understood that the amendment | bill also provides that bicycles shall his prop};sal that, m"}fiwre, lgrti;gr:; is the answer of the department to | have a white strip painted on the rear _ holdings shall not be a necessary qual-- insurance companies' plans to double| mudguard. ification for the position of Justice of § the passenger liability insurance rates: All persons in the garage business _ the Peace. in the Toronto area on April 1. It is will be obliged to report all cars in The Attorney--General's statement anticipated that a further rate revision | their care which appear to have been _ was prompted by the expressed opinion is possible if this clause of the bill is in an accident, and all open--air parking _ of W. A. Baird (Conservative, High adopted. {lots are to be liceonsed in the same Park) that Justice of the Peace should Another major change in the act is manner as garages. have some standing in the community that after July, 1936, all motor ve--| An amendment to the Highways Im-- as far as property holdings were con-- hicles must be equipped with "safety provement Act empowers the depart-- cerned. * glass." ment to tag all revenuss under the "A citizen," declared Mr. Wider powers will be given to police act for the highways improvement "can run for the high office ?toe l\g::gr officers to inspect motor vehicles as to | fund, and the measure also validates of Toronto, if he is merely a tenant their condition, and it is proposed to the proposal to take the burden O of property." * force motor--vehicle operators to carry | Provincial highway costs from coure Colonel W. H. Price (Conservative, f flares in case of night emergencies. The | ties. Parkdale), admitted that moral quali-- fications were of the greater import-- ance in such appointments. At the same time he strongly urged that great care be taken by the Attorney-- l 664 a9 General in the appointment of Justices PEEVED" ; of the Peace. _ Heighington Takes Sly Slap at Roebuck Wilfrid Heighington is still "peev-- ed" about Attorney--General Arthur e e e e e e e e e s n Roebuck's radio speeches. | S' To the Ontario House he suggest-; EBOth ldes OfHouse ed yesterday that the preamble to| ) d S' i bills should hereafter read as follows: l f Applau InC lal r, "Therefore his Majesty, by and | e it n e n tm . with the advice and consent of the While both sides thumped their 7 Legislative Assembly of the Province 4 s of Ontario, and with the alleged ap-- d.'e.sks and Premier Hepbun'] Sh_Ot proval of the ladies and gentlemen n' him a cheery grin, W. E. N. Sinclair, the Attorn:cy--Geoneral's radio audi-- K.C., made his first address of the ence, enacts as follows: session at yesterday's sitting at Between the chuckles of his fellow Queen's Park legislators, Mr. Heighington enlarged en f on his subject with an exposition of The member for Ontario took five the place of lawyers in the scheme of minutes to pilot one of his famous things. f legal bills through second reading The matter was brougln up while --in this case an amendment clari-- > the House passcd the "Loftus Reid" {yi t £f the Jurors Act bill through committse. ying & secilon of ie JUIOTS ACW Gardhouse Denies f | + 66 ', % * | Being at "Party I W. J. ("Bill") Gardhouse was not at the "Sunday suds party." The Lib-- eral member for York West rose to a point of privilege with a glance at * the Hon. Leopold Macaulay, and told | the Ontario Legislature yesterday £ s | that he had not attended the | Franceschini picnic. "Like my honorable friend for York ! East (former Premier Henry), I hap-- pened to be at church that day with my wife and family," he said.