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'm«v C 5 un hk 1 1 ,i' * ! s ons '\ 3 \Prelude to Police Board Shake--Up, Is Queen's , Park Hint ' STEP that may, ac-- ; cording to Queen's Park reports, be a . prelude to a change in the personnel of the Toronto B.oard of Police Commis-- ; sioners was taken yester-- | day by Attorney--General | | _ Arthur Roebuck. i He introduced into the Legisiature a > will to amend the County Judges Act by raising the number of Judges in | York County from eight to nine, by : the appointment to the Bench of a member of the s legal fraternity as mm yet unnamed. ' » Not one word f would Mr. Roebuck [ | say in reply to the a| suggestion that the : ,\i new appointee |f -- would have a Po-- |{] 3+ 'l lice Commissioner-- |. . 2 W ship added to his 3 2P | judicial duties. p| + _ "I shall neither | confirm nor deny Sn oi | conjectures along that line." he said. A. W. Roebuck. "My only statement is that the County of York needs an extra Judge, and this appointment--which, of course,| | will be made in Ottawa--will supply ' the deficiency." | Well--informed circles, however, pro--| fessed to see in Mr. Roebuck's move | & confirmation of widespread rumors| | that Judge W. T. J. Lee, while re--| taining his office of Junior County Judge, is soon to relinquish his mem-- bership on the Toronto Police Board. _ Mr. Roebuck denied the suggestion, * , |too, that the choice of the new ap-- pointee would rest, in the last analy-- ) sis, with the Hepburn Government or himself. F "The appointment will be made in Ottawa," he said. "I will have no more to do with it than anybody else." The population of York County, the ' Attorney--General pointed out, was ( approximately 1,000,000--or almost one--third of the total population of the Province. And yet, he said, out of the sixty--five Judges at present. on the Ontario Bench, only eight were ' in York County. Purthermore, the total annual revenue, through legal channels, in York County, was slight-- kc ly greater than the similar revenue s :;' the entire remainder of the Prov-- Not Proportionate. Consequently, Mr. Rocbuck said, it | was quite obvious that the number of » -- Judges in York was wel lunder pro-- portion for the extent of the duties, and that another appointment was indicated. & The eight present County Judges of York are: James Parker, Senior Judge, who was retired from the Toronto Police Commission when the present Government took office; Daniel s O'Connell, recently appointed to supervise the City Police Courts: Wil-- Ham T. J. Lee, at present a member of the City Police Commission, with Frank Denton, K.C., and Mayor Mc-- Bride; J. Arthur Jackson, Frank M. Fileld, Ian Macdonell, T. Herbert A Barton and Albert E. Honeywell. In f addition there is Surrogate Court _Juxige John Tytler,