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It was subsequently learned try The Globe and Mail that the Gov- ernment plans. at the inquiry pend- ing. not only to look into the ANN- bi development purchase and the Madawaska properties acquisition. in which Mr. Aird figured. but to probe fully the various angles of Hydro's $21,000,000 buy of the Do. minion Power and Transmission Company plant and assets. Notice was served on the Lexis-I lature yesterday by Provincial Sec-l retary Nixon that the old and highly, controversial questions of former Premier Henry's holding of Ontario!, Power Service bonds and of pay-' ments made to John Aird Jr. lil Hydro dealings of the past will be: reopened before the special House committee now authorized to invesoi "gate the ramifications of the re-, cent Beauharnois and other Quebec, agreements. 1 Mr. Hepburn would not discuss the situation last night other than to say: "They (the Opposition! wanted a Hydro Inquiry: now we're going to give them a real one." Inch-m nested. The policy intimation from Mr. Nixon came during a heated ex- change between the Government and the Opposition over the de- liberate omission from the commit- tee personnel of former Attorney. General and Hydro Commissioner Roebuck. on the ground that Mr. Roebueit's Hydro administration would likely be looked into, and consequently he could not. " a Judge. pass on " evidence " a witness. To suggest that the committee was a quasi-Judicial body, declared former Premier Henry, was ridicu- lous. Who ever imagined. said he. that a committee of this kind could be of any real value. The press picked up the evidence and broad- cast it to all corners of the Prov- ince. and the public formed its opinions long before the actual tindintts of the probe body were recorded. To add Mr. Roebuck's name to the committee was no more out of place. he argued. than to allow Mr. Nixon to not as an Investigator. because Mr. Nixon. " a member of the Hepburn Cabinet. had religious- ly supported Mr. Roebuck in all his power recommendations ot the - "Now that my friend, the Pro- vincial Secreury. is In the box-" B E F O R E COMMITTEE Infimafion of Policy fo Be Pursued in Power Quiz Given by Nixon During Warm Debate Hydro (Puesfions Will Be Reopened fo Include Henry's Holding, Aird Payments and Abitibi Probe to Exhume O.P.S. Bonds Deal; Roebuck Left Off "Oh. my honorable friend," said Mr. Henry blandly. "just can't keep quiot when he gets in a tight place." "Your O.P.S. bonds will be up again." Mr. Nixon gibed. "I have wt. to hear of a better luggostlon than that I made for the development of the Abitihi en- terprise." Mr. Henry shot. hack. "And Johnny Aim may have a different story to tell, too," Mr. Nixon cracked. "Oh," smiled Mr. Henry, "I have heard that before." "My honorable friend 1Mr. Henry) may be in a box before this Inquiry ls over," he shouted. Mr. Henry was saying, when Mr.' Nien interrupted belligerently.