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Challies Criticizes Ontario Government's Hydro CURB IS RIG'D Administration f I CONFIDENCE IN HOGG OFHCIA'_ SAYS Adoption of a St. Lawrence power + i 1+ _ policy in harmony with Federal Director of Food Division negotiations bearing on the inter-- Tells of Efforts to Curb national waterway was advocated Coku} * yesterday in the Legislature by D'Sh'bu*'on George Challies (Cons., Grenville-- Dundas) in a debate speech critical REPUES TO LEGISLATOR of the Hepburn Government's Torontp residents have little to Hydro administration. fear from meat products purchased In an address that was marked f across the c%umers of fcity butcher f shops, according to officiel view-- by frequent clashes ""t', the Pre-- * point, although the municipal in-- mieér and Hon. Harry Nixon, Pro-- spection system does not guarantee vincial Secretary, the member from ;ho purity of meat obtained at out-- M ying markets near the city's bor-- * the enstern' cguntxes' a"ttac!ced the ders Government's b'""fi'l of its man-- According to William Duckworth. date to "go back to Niagara," scored M.L.A. for Dcvercourt, diseased the plan to export surplus power meat might easily find its way to purchased under the post--election the consumer through these mar-- Quebec contracts, and urged Mr. kets. Mr. Duckworth made this Hepburn give free rein to Dr. , statement during a discussion of Thomas Hogs, Chairman of the Ihe pasteurization bill in the Legis--| Hydro Commission. ature. }"We gill then have a hogshead Admitting that individual farmers| of justice and a thimbleful of who .k"éedt thmrhr)wn h;et meet nok politics instead of a hogshead of eemminit oeare rurnraraseasiergce required to subject the meat to politics and a thimbleful of jus--| why it had been forwarded and gfrr:;::":z} 'T;rn- ;_I(;Of(}-n?\-'ifi»:);homfo'nhdé rice, which for se many mnnths;th, Premier suggested that it Giry of Toronto, said Wednesday was rampant during the Roebuck--|couldn't keep up with him in the tnay ai1 meat passing through the Lyon hysteria at the Hydro head-- | campaign. various local abattoirs underwent| quarters," he said in conclusion. Mr. Chalilies, continuing, contend--)| an inspection based upon one of the | Questioned by Premier. ,'d that the Long Lac and OROKl mps} rigid systems in the world. i Mr. Challies had just linished;di"_"'o"s: upon whlch_ grea;er Meat for city consumption, he' outlining his opposition to power | PONTT development ?t N'""l': @i. ®2}d, was inspected by the Toronto | export when he made the recom--| P°M4eG. was impract "li as the ffi. Authorities but all meat going out mendation, and the Premier leaped | \iersio;: woul;i not provide a Suffit . of the country or the Province was immediately to his feet with the!cem ead of water. inspected by the Federal Govern-- question: 'Have you confidence in | Denies Premier's Assertion. ment. The Toronto system, he said. Hogg ?" | _ The speaker scored the Premier's was based upon that of the Govern--| "Yes," replied Mr. Challies. it'onlemion that reserves had been ment and called for thorough a_nte! "Well, he recommended the export Gepleted under the Conservative mortem and post mortem examina--| of power," said the Premier. "He | Administration. Reserves, he said. . tions. l had complete charge of negotia. had been increased, while the loss Should a carcass be found in-- tions and he made the recommenda-- Of revenue during the depression fecled, it was banned from market ; tion in regard to export, and it Period had been offset by with-- and manufacture of edible products. was my first intimation it could drawals from the stabilization fund In cases where the infection was be done." which had been created for that confined to a certain portion of the Earlier, --when -- Mr. Challies burpose. He took to task J. Albert carcass, the remainder was some-- charged that nine months before Smith, Hydro Commissioner and times passed when found to be free the election the Premier knew that | Liberal member for Waterloo North, from infection. In cases where the the back--to--Niagara policy was not|for having in his address given full carcass was condemned completely, | practical because Prime Minister| Credit of rural service reductions 1t was placed in tanks and rendered | King had notified him that diver. | to the Liberal Administration. down to grease for soap and base | sion of water from the Hudson Bay|-- The Government's Sastern On-- for_fertilizer. s { watershed was inseparably con.--| tario policy in regard :o power de-- _ '"The chances of infected meat | nected with the St. Lawrence| velopment. he charged was the rea-- getting_ by our inspectors and "'f"fh" \Waterways, he made added refer.| son why "Ontario is saddled with ing the consumer are very slim in-- ' ence to Mr. King's letter of Sept.| A million dollar frequency changer deed," said Dr. Richmond. _ | 7. 1937, on the same subject, to the And a three--quarter of a million In addition to the inspection Of, Provincial Secretary. dollar transmission line to serve meat at the abattoir, rounds l\lvel'ee & this unneeded machine." made at regular intervals of all re-- lo;oelved Duflnz Campaign. l Cheap _ partisan politics, he tail butcher establishments, said 'I'h.e' letter, reiortet:l the Pre-- charged "dictated the cruel and un-- Dr. Richmond. ";l"' w?i" ireceived during the heat | fair treatment of a zreat engineer, "Our inspectors watch not only or «. poutical. campaien . th was | PUXGain, who way wallls of noth: for uninapected meny, bat also 1o) The lelter to me and Th ing more serious than an inability Any laxity in the observance of I first T me and that was the | to foresee the greatest business de-- Sanitary regulations governing the -. :;ste otkril'e;w o!tnt. , I haqlno' know!-- | pression in history." handling of meat in butcher shops," 13" s contents until after the|" Dy, Hogg's statement to the On-- Ssaid Dr. Richmond. "cth°" and h",', met my colleagues | tariop Municipal Electric Associa-- Dr. H. M. Cooke, Inspector of °""w: tCa?ir'\'et. . s | tion, he said, was a complete vindi-- Hospitalization for the County of th at right had you to continue | ration of the stand taken by the York, said that most meat purchased Nle campalgr'\ on the back--to--| Conservative Party in opposition to in the vicinity of Toronto came h :'"'l policy when your colleague | the Government's power contract from city abattoirs Only an ex-- .": a letter in his pocket saying | repudiation policy. tremely small percentage came from at )(z'l.l. couldn't go back t0 | He declared that a St. Lawrence small farms and was sold over open 4 Niagara in.terjecled Hon. Leo--| program should be eniered into im-- markets, he said. {gl'dd:f'""'"- Conservative House| mediately as ten years, at least, '"Danger from infected meat is "I Tok , is must elapse before power could be Cut down to a minimum by virtue said :}g"&i:':'p ,'} in mi-" pocket," | produced. He held that St. Law-- Oof the fact that it undergoes a e Hy;lro Cg;nmi sient"t down to | rence power, sooner or later, must Natural sterilization in the cooking iF. "Macatia ssion. be the backbone of the power sys-- process, as a general rule," said Dr. * y wanted to know | tems in both the central Provinces.. Cooke. }