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Armand Racine, KC., of Windsor, was appointed Public Trustee lad Oct. I, following the superannuation of A. N. Middleton April 30, at a salary ot 87,000, G. Dotu-ett of Lan- ark was informed yesterday in the Legislature. There are thirty-five members of the Public Trustee's staff, two of them temporary, and the cost of the department last year was 866.711. The department admin- isters the estates of 2.599 patients in Ontario Hospitals and 2.292 other estates. Answers to other queations: Camp Scholtield, pit-wilted to the Province by the late H. C. St'iltli- field, was offered for sale by the Province because it was too expen- sive to maintain. lt was advertised for sale and sold to E. A. Craig. the highest bidder. for $1.500. ARMAND RACINE PUBLIC TRUSTEE Members of the Legislature from Lambton and district supported tho application for the establishment of Ipperwash Park. on Lake Huron. It was also endorsed by a petition signed by over 1.000 citizen, romeo senting forty-sh municipalities in Southwestern Ontario and the Town. ship of Bosanquct. In addition to the original cost of $10,000. the sum of $14,699 has been spent on capital expenditure and $7,938 on ordinary expenditures. A coroner is always called follow- Ing the death of a patient in an On- tario Hospital. Since Nov. l, 1934. coroners have made 4263 such calls at a cost of 822.201 to the Province. During that time twenty-eight coro- ners' inquests have been held in connection with the deaths of pa- tients in these hospitals. Salary $7,000, Quesiioner Is Told in Legislature STAFF TOTALS 35 He then referred to the Minis- ter's charge that. in 1928, he receiv- od a road contract, although his ten- der was not the lowest tender, and that he was unable to finish the work. "That is absolutely contrary to facts and I want everybody in the Legislature to know that." he said. In a brief resumption of Tues. day's bitter exchange between Lands and Forests Minister Peter Heenan and Charles W. Cox, Mayor of Port Arthur and Liberal member for Port Arthur Riding. the latter. yes- terday in the Legislature. denied two of the charges levelled against him by his colleague. Mayor Cox. before the Orders of the Day were called. first denied that he had appealed to Mr. Heenan. after his election to the Legislature in 1934. to use his influence to stop the protest that was made against his election. "It is absolutely incomprehensible to me." said the Port Arthur Mayor, "that a road contract in 1928 has anything to do with the Lands and Forests Department m 1941." lie said his tender was 820,000 lower than that of the second low- est bidder and that he lost $30,000 to 540000 on the job. "The Depart- ment of Highways did not move one yard of varth on the job and I did ACCUSATIONS DENIED BY COX The superintendent cannot con- sent to the marriage of such a child guest nor take over control of real and personal property. He cannot prevent a child guest from return- ing to the Mother Country with the consent of its parent or guardian. The act does not concern any child residing with or subject to the con- trol of one or more parents. Provisions for health precautions and environment of child war-guests in Ontario are made in a bill intro- duced in the Legislature yesterday afternoon hy Labo- Minister N. O. Hipel. By it the Superintendent of Neglected and Dependent. Children may exercise all the powers of a parent or legal guardian. He may consent to a surgical operation, medical care and hospitalization in cases where the consent of the parents or legal guardian is re- quired and ho may direct that any such child who has entered the Province from the United Kingdom or Northern Ireland since Sept. l, 1030. may he taken from the home where it resides and placed in a foster home. approved by a Chil- dren's Aid Society. Another bill provides for the in- auguration of Sunday street cars Bill fo Name 'Guardian' For War Guests Heard Heenan Charges Wrong, Port Arthur Mayor Says MARCH It, iin Cornwall. F. B. Brownridge. (1A).. Stormont) stated that most of the industries in Cornwall are located on the outskirts of the 1municiptlity and that all are work- ing on Sunday. I An amendment to the Agricul- ltural Representatives Act provides I than any graduate of any university ior agricultural college may be ap- lpointed as an agricultural repre- sentative. provided he has a degree lg, Bachelor of the Science of Agri- culture. At, present. only a gradu- Late of the Ontario Agricultural Col. I legt may be appointed. rot receive any extras. I defy hum Ct' any one else to say anything dif- ferent," he said. Mr. Heenan: "I have no reply, Mr. Speaker, except that the record stands."