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TIMBER PROBE WANTS TO HEAR li. OPERATORS Indication that operators of some of the largest pulp processing mills in the United States may be called before the select committee of the Ontario Legislature now investigat- ing timber administration in the Province was seen in statements made by Hon. Peter Heenan. Min- ister of Lands and Forests. and Conservative Leader George Drew during yesterday's committee hear- ing. The suggestion was voiced while Colonel Drew was questioning the Minister on the problem ot sale- guarding Ontario newsprint mills from competition by United States mills using Ontario wood. Mr. Heenan said exporters filed aili- davits that their wood would not be used for manufacture ot news- print, but admitted there was no other guarantee. Would Clarity Situation. "I think the best way to settle that point would be by direct evi- dence." he said. "We couldn't very well subpoena United States opera- tors to appear before us, but I think they would be willing to come voluntarily if requested." "They should be," the Conserva- tive Leader replied. "the very nature of their business makes harmonious relations with the Ontario Govern- ment imperative." He agreed that their testimony would do more to. ward clarifying the situation than any indirect evidence. Colonel Drew attempted to trace the course of export wood from Canadian ports to its point of con- sumption. but the Minister said it was not possible to do so accurately as the Province had no exact fig- ures on the operation of American mills. None of the wood. he insisted. was used in the manufacture of newsprint. "Is It not correct that some of the companies importing wood from Ontario are also making newsprint in other places?" Colonel Drew pressed. "That might be possible," Mr. Heenan agreed. "hut I cannot say tor certain. We don't keep those records." "What control do you exercise In seeing that this wood is not used tor newsprint manufacture?" "We have only the affidavits of the men exporting that the wood will not he used for newsprint." Colonel Drew told the committee he could see the point Mr. Heenan was attempting to make, but that he did not entirely accept it. The Minister's stand. he understood. was that wood exported from Ontario did not compete with Canadian wood on the market because it was not used tor the manufacture ot newsprint. But. he added, there was nothing to show that the wood, once received in the United States. was not transpshipped to a sub. sidiary company and used in a newsprint mill. Quesfion of Making Newsprint from Wood of Ontario Broughi' Up RAISED " DREW To Meet Emergency. Mr. Heenan defended the Govern- ment's export policy on the grounds that it had been adopted to meet an emergency and that the emergency still existed. _ "Thunder Bay operators waited on this Government several years ago." he said, "and urged that per- mission be granted for them to ex- port wood from Crown lands over a period ot years. They pointed to the wide-scale unemployment in the area, and they impressed me with their plight and with their argu- ments. There was such a large amount of mature pulpwood avail- able that we passed an Order-in- Couneil authorizing such exports and this policy was extended from year to year." J"'" ... P-.. Far from being a set policy, he said. it was a policy tailored to the needs of the Province. Mr. Heenan agreed that it would be much bet- ter for Ontario if the wood could be processed here, and said the Gov- ernment would curtail exports just as soon as any mill. large or smafl, could be established in the Province. " total of 433.141. IAir Sen-Ice Costa. "Then, in at 'ieast one year we ;have exported more wood than the Itotal consumption of Ontario mills," :Coionel Drew observed. Earlier in the hearing. Mr. Heen- an tabled statistics showing the 'growth of the Ontario Provincial Air Service. operating costs and number of hours flown per year since the service was inaugurated in 1924. Tabling figures in reply to a ques- tion asked by Colonel Drew in the first day of the hearing. the Minis- ter reported that consumption of pulpwood in Thunder Bay district tor the peak year of all time amounted to 425.715 cords in 1937. Of that. he said. 23 per cent came from private lands and 15 per cent was poplar, which was not included in his estimate of "permissible cut" which had been placed at 740,000 cords per year. About 275.000 cords of the total represented balsam and spruce cut from Crown lands, he said. Exports in 1938 amounted to 324.- Mo cords from Crown lands, and 288.212 from other lands. or a total ot 612,000 cords all told. In 1939 ex- ports were 258,635 cords from Crown lands and 174.506 from others, tor Aircraft operated on forestry pa- trol had increased from fifteen in 1924 to a peak of twenty-seven in 1931. and had then declined to a total of twenty-one machines in 1934. From 1934 to the present date it had been built up to a strength of twenty-eight aircraft. In 1936, he said, the department had begun replacing detection aircraft with a larger "semi-suppression" type. JAMMu Hi HOUSE REVISES PROXY CLAUSE By an amendment to the Com.. panies Act, introduced yesterday by Attorney-General Conant, the pro- vision which prescribes the form in which a proxy may be made is changed to permit the form of the proxy to comply with the laws of other jurisdictions in which the, shares of a company may be listed on a stock exchange. Leopold Macaulay (Cons. York South) suggested that most jurisdic- tions had fairly stiff regulations gov- erning the soliciting of proxies, and that it might be well to consider tightening the provisions in On- tario. By another amendment to the act, it is proposed to permit life insur- ance companies to elect directors to represent policyholders. Under a proposed amendment to the Change of Name Act, introduced by Mr. Conant, every application for a change of name must be accom- panied by an affidavit of the appli- cant to the effect that he has re- sided in the county or district in which the application is made for one yaar prior to the notice of ap- plication.