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* es y gegh w & * > * iqh on * ; J&hu &fj 2 2 Hdro Plans $500,000 Expen-- diture, Attorney--General Announces -- The Ontario Hydro Commission plans a $500,000 expenditure to se-- cure an adequate supply of powet to meet rapidly increasing demands in the Abitibi area, Attorney--Gen eral Roebuck told the Legislature yesterday. The Abitibi plant's pres-- ent installed capacity of 275,0(00 horsepower would be sufficient fo: the next three vyears, which was not a great deal of margin, he said. "It must be pointed out that the mining plants operate day and night, and the electric load is on a itwenty--four--bour basis," said Mr Roebuck,. "The call on the water sup-- ply at Abitibi plant is, therefore, con-- tinuous, and the quantities of wate used are tremendous. The load that can be supplied by the plant is * limited not by the capacity of its equipment, but rather by its water supply. "It is estimated by Hydro's en-- | t 4 11 | gineers that the demand for firm ! i' [ A11 | power will, in the next three years, ! 7 12 [ .1 reach the capacity available from the present flov This capacity | \ 1 h may be increased by construction TD{'!; i i [ of a storage dam on the Frederick-- £ ' f b% i 5 4 {* L house River to control the leveis id 1 WVA of the Frederickhouse and Night . 'Hawk Lakes the installation of which was part of the original plan lni'enhon to Wr.'hdraw Secur- \for the Canyon development. s % "Construction of this dam would zfy POSTE'd on Appeal make available an estimated 300.-- Indicat d |000O--acre feet of storage, and in-- naicare crease the dependable flow to 6,200 «_ -- cublic feet per second. It would The H1 wKTant; ye |also provide for an additional load o e oo P Mulls of approximately 40,000 horsepower," fH{a»i0lil _ OL _ AHT] ) _ intend 1to the Attorney--General said. withdraw all moneys posted with the Supreme Court as security in connection with apneals of la, & suits against it, accordins to --thi terms of a | introduced in the Legislature yesterday by Hon. 'I B. McQuesten, a member of th M 'l"\(.'"('y,,'" ion. a v}"l" um 11 -xllv'-'? Ww as about $127,000, Mr. McQuesten told the House. An further need for the Hyc@ro Commi n to post securit, in eonnection with tuture cases \\j" b¢ obviated b the measure The bill was one of two vhich were designed to strengthen the position of the Hydro Commission in respect to legal actions against i?. .Iw),,. other. also Introduced vesterday by Mr. McQuesten, clari-- f':,.\ |h4. meanin l)r he -»\},'n\_("y. clause of the Power Commission Act &