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Janvaey 13 o Y t to Be Legal Survivor ; / Mg Iti ea ccidents n Multiple Death Accident Macaulay Waxes Facetious in Legislature Debate to Suggest Renaming of Premier's Lake Laurier A bill which settles the questionjone, said he was disappointed that of priority of death on the basis|the bill did not cover cases of this of seniority, in cases where two or | kind. f more persons die in circumstances| There should be a law or the which make it impossible to ascer--| name should be changed to some-- tain who survived the other, or|thing less conducive to activity, others, was given first reading in |like Lake Mackenzie King, he said. the Legislature yesterday. "Why, only last year the secre-- Attorney--General Conant explain--| tary of the Liberal Party (Harry ed that the bill followed in atgen--|Johnson) fell and broke his leg," eral way the English provision and | said Mr. Macaulay. had been adopted by the Commis-- "I hope that it was not his bank-- sioners on uniformity of legislation | rol!," he added. ; in Canada. | _ Latest victim of Lake Laurier The proposed measure deals with| was Mrs. Hepburn, wife of the Pre-- cases affecting the title to property, | mier, continued Mr. Macgulay. * and for this purpose it provides "There is too much activity there I that such deaths shall be presumed | with a name like Lake Laurier," de-- 'to have occurred in the order of | clared the South York Conservative seniority, and, . accordingly, the| "You should change it to I..ake Mac-- younger shall have been deemed to | kenzie King and then nothing would have survived the older. ever happen there." Leopold Macaulay, Conservative The House also gave second read-- member for South York, created |ing to bills exempting members of laughter when he said the bill| the R.C.A.F. from jury duty, extend-- R failed to provide for disasters from |ing the provisions of the Mortga-- a common cause--like Lake Laurier,| gors' and Purchasers' Relief Act for the artificial stretch of water on |another year and removing doqbt Premier Mepburn's farm. There|as to the enforceability of a claim woere too many accidents on this| for life insurance money in the lake, maintained Mr. Macaulay, whol|event of a suicide. was critical of the wording of Hwi Of that bill, an act to amend the bill, which is entitled "An Act Re--| Insurance Act, Mr. Conant said that specting Survivorship in Commonl insurance companies have been Disasters." paying claims in the event of an Mr. Macaulay, with that look of | assured's suicide, but that the » bland innocence which to the initiat-- | clause was designed to make the ed usually means trouble for some ' practice lawful. | ,l Bill, if Passed, Will Not Apply Until 1941, Report FAVOR PLEBISCITES l The Hepburn Government's long-- proposed bill to establish a two-- ; year term for municipal councils will--if forced through the present r session of the Legislature--be so modified, it is reported, as not to become operative until the 1941 elections. The measure was discussed at a Queen's Park caucus of Liberal M.L.A's, yesterday noon, and Hon. Eric Cross, Minister of Welfare and Municipal Affairs, its sponse*, is said to have favored this modifica-- tion. Majority of caucus are reported k. as also strongly favoring the idea of having all municipalities con-- duct plebiscites in connection with the 1941 elections to determine whe-- ther they want the two--year term or not, the decisions from those ' plebiscites to be binding. However, the controversial ques-- tion has not been definitely settled and there is no assurance yet as to : the course the Government ulti« | mately will pursue. Some mem--| bers, it is said, want the proposed & legns_lauon abandoned entirely this session. It will, it is reported, be} caucused again next week. l immmmmmnmnnmmmamimermnmemenimencommenyme w ons +