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OPTOMETRISTS --STANDARDS ACT TO BE GOVERNED MAYBECHANSED UNDER NEWLAW ... .. .. T o t o t s t o o t o o o m The power to suspend or revoke licenses will now extend only to per-- sons who have been convicted of of-- fences involving fraud m the practice of optometry. Also abolished are the old powers to hold inquiries with the authority of a Commission. Offences under the act are in the main set out to prevent any fraudu-- lent use of the term "optometrist" or "optician," and to penalize anyone wrongfully reprosenting himself as an "I hope," he added, with a nod at the Tory M.P.P. and war captain, "that the honorable member goes, because nothing could give me greater pleasure than to confer that distinction on a gallant soldier and honorable gentleman." A new optometry bill providing for a board appointed "at pleasure" was brought in to the Legislature last night while the act to repeal the Optometry Act awaited passage through committee, * 'I't)e new bill gives a new board the power to pass regulations, but states that such regulations may be amend-- PREM"'IR HEPBURN Wilfrid Heichinaotar 4 Wilfrid Heighington yvesterday that the Government will designate all M.P.P.--veterans, regardless of politics, as Government representa -- lives at the Vimy Pilgrimage. ed or repealed at any time by Order-- in--~Council. Soldier Members Represent Ontario : Minister May Draw Up Tory ex--Member Shown to Schedules | Have Contract The most--« important amendments are in sections 5 and 6 of the bill. Formerly, conferences between em-- ployers and employces formulated schedules of hours and wages, which subsequently reccived Cabinet ap-- proval. Hereaf.er, the conferences will forward recommendations to the Minister and he is empowered to formulate the schedule on the strength of these recommendations. Ths effort is being made to have schedules adapted to conditions peculiar to any industry and any zone. The schedules now can cover many points which caused criticism at recent sessions of the Labor Committese of the Legis-- lature. such as the problem of the one--man contractor. Welfare--Labor Minister David Croll indicated he is maintaining and re-- vising the Industrial Standards Act when he introduced amendments in the Legislature yesterday. The basic principle of the act, voluntary set-- ups of s'andards in industries desir-- ing them,, is continued, but there is a modification of administration. Definitions are strengthened, so | that the act may cover employers and | employees who hitherto have been | able to escape its terms on technical | grounds. The power of defining and | redefining zones is revised to clarify the respective authority of Ministerl and conference. Other sections are designed to pre-- vent occurrence of intorvals between lapse of an agreement and its renewal; to permit advisory boards of each trade to set special rates for handi-- capped workers; to vest in the Mini-- mum Wage Board authority over all prosecutions and to provide penalties for second and third offenses. The Premicr took pride in a Toronto statemoent approving of the clauses of the bill which puts Wards 7 and 9 out of a plebiscite and out of any changes in Toronto's wet or dry status. His Administration, he said, had not allowed liquor stores and beverage rooms in these areas and did not intend to do so. Three Amendments Ex-- plained by Premier "If we allowed them to vote, and Toronto remained wet, there would be some doubt about their status." The Promier explained he was amending the act to permit all Pro-- vincial voters to pstition; to eliminate references to the C.T.A. in consistency with the appeal against that act; and to give the authority--holders the same protection against a sudden closing because of a plebiscite which is now granted to liquor stores closed under the spme circumstances. The Liquor Control Act amend-- ments were explained to the Legisla-- ture last night by Premier Hepburn and allowed to stand for debate when Colonel W. H. Price would be present. L.C.A. CHANGES ARE QUTLINED APr;' 4. Evidence that Mr. Kennedy had not received special consideration in 1927--28 over the other contractors, was brought out in cross--examination by Hon. W. H. Pricec, Conservative, Parkdale. The total sales tax on the vear's contract amounted to $3,165, he said, and Mr. Kennedy was held liable for the payment of the balance. '"'*He appeared before the Commis-- alon," smid the witness. "There was an adjustment. I am not conversant with what occurred, but there was a settlement of $1,000." Mr. Alford reiterated Thursday's evidence that in the 1928--29 contract the -- Commission rsbated 31,000 to Mr. Kennedy as pari payment of his sales tax, but that none of the other contractors received such a concession. He declared that early in the year there was a controversy over the payment of the tax between Mr. Kennedy and the Commission. G. B. Alford, railway purchasing agent, in the stand yesterday, empha-- sized sales tax rebate in that year was made to all contractors, and not to Mr. Kennedy alone. He stated it was the practice, prior to 1926--27. for the Commission to pay the sales tax on All tie contracts. In that year, he said, an effort was made to place payment responsibility on the ven-- dors. He said that the Commission egain paid the tax in 1927--28, but that in the next yvear's contracts, the Commission clamped down on the payments. Evidence taken during the past three days showed that Mr. Kennedy, in 1927--28, sold to the Commission 61,487 ties, for $42,756; in 1928--29, 104.275 Lies, for $78,739; and in 1929--30, 6,154 ties, for $4,675. Out of the Railway Commission's files were taken letters, written on Government stationery, in which Mr. Kennedy €iscussed contract matters. In evidence submitted Thursday, it was stated that in the 1927--28 con-- tract the Commission rebated to Mr. Kennedy $1,644 in payment in full of the sales tax due on the trans-- action. It was left in the evidence that the sales tax rebate was made to Mr. Kennedy alone. ted a Supreme Court ruling that the railway was a department of the Gov-- ernment. The penalty under the act was forfeiture of $2,000 a day for every day that an offending member sat or voted in the Legislature. bistudiftatedsts.. atrbsaries.~ betsmancd purchases by the Timiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway yesterday, continued its inquiry into purchases irom A. J. Kennedy, former Conserva-- tive member of the Legislature for | Timiskaming. ' Kennedy, who sat in the Legislature from June, 1923, to May, 1934, was shown to have sold ties to the railway to the value of $126,170 from 1927 to 1930. Attorney--General Roebuck read into the record Section 10 of the Legislative Assembly Act, which ruled that no person who had a contract with a Government department under which he received public money was eligible io sit and vote as a member of the Legislature. _ The Attorucy--General also submit-- ted a Sunreme (rawWt vruliny Hinnk tle. HEAVY FORFEIT FACES KENNEDY The Ontario Legislature Public Ac-- Committee, investigating the w¥