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t X . March 14 _ 21,382,361 GALLONS EMPLOYEES OATH | _ Liquor Board Pays $l2,.| The Government could expect | strong Conservative opposition to its | 000,000 to Treasury : bill -- obliging employees of Onlirls s ts I tal hospitals to take an oath of tario's beer consumption in 1935 : men f 'gnn'm'"l gallons, an Opposition secrecy regarding evem's occurring in question revealed in yestoerday's Legis-- the hospitals, the Legislature heard lature. Wine consumption for the yesterday from Leopold 'Macaulay, same period, the "answer" said, was former Minister of Highways. 1,328,400 gallons. N "It's an outrage," he said, "to ask The Liquor Board, the Opposition any civil servant to accept an oath learned, has paid $12,560,000 into the from another civil servant in a case | Provincial Treasury since the change of this kind. The Government may ' of regimes in 1934, and Hydro has expect spirited opposition to thh. paid $31,608,274. The Hydro pay-- measure, and I advise that it be let ments were composed largely of in-- stand." terest on loans, sinking fund pay-- Hon. H. C. Nixon, Provincial Secre-- ments, water rentals, and the purchase . | tary, agreed that there was "some of Ontario bonds. | justice in this complaint and agreed | E. G. Odette, the Government said to let the measure stand for the' in answer to another Conservative present. | question, had been granted one six-- week vacation with salary since his appointment in 1934. GASOL'NE T AX ACT PRIVATE VEHICLES DEFINES PRODUCT onfi beP Private commercial vehicles will be % e on . required to take out licenses under a wWill Stop Evasion by new P.C.V. Act, which was introduced . in yesterday's Legislature. The re-- SlletltllteS vamping of Ontario's P.C.V. law, which frrrierrmire es oererren m is sponsored by the Minister of High-- The legislation to tighten up the \waxyzi)e ;;mvides thatt) vt;ahicla operating h k on r owners' business outside of Gasoline Tax Act, recently forecast, urban limits, must be licented as com. was brought into y:sterday's Legisla-- mon carriers as under the present law. ture by Ontario Highways Minister T. The bill, which Hon. T. B. McQues-- B. McQuesten. Big feature of the ten,. as Highways Minister, introduced new bill is the new definition of gaso-- yosterday, also gives the Government line. Under the tax law that term the power to regulate every detail of will now include ny petroleum, coal the public and private vehicle bu:si-- o gas--produced liquid or compound ness. These omnibus clauses give it c of the product, benzol, or any other power over hours, wages, and the age liquid used for an internal--combus-- of the grivers, tion engine, except kerossne. The law was announced as a move to put a stop to tax evasion through * the use of gasoline substitutes or adulterants. Oh:r clauses in the new legislation require licensing of all firms produc-- | ng gasoline compounds: of all per-- sons selling gasoline, and of all firms catrying gasoline into Ontario (except railways). New penaliltées Are pre-- " sceribed for any breach of the act.