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5 % TECK WILL SEEK 0 "®*®* * _ _ PLANDEFERRED But Solicitor Expects I e ns I * | % # '6'°" \.:.v'" Bhe. B.'";?"'i i Will Not Be Instituted rop Township's Bi ' This Year, Nixon Says SEEK MORE TAXES I _ Dates DISCUSSED P gislatit «tar. | | it i Teck Township lf',.,l,'ld'l-"ll yester»| \ _ Following a two--day session of day at the Private Bills Committee | \the Fish and Game Committee of session at Queen's Park was ab.| \the Legislature, at which deputa-- ruptly withdrawn with a blunt in-- l'iom from various points of the timation by L. A. Lillico, township | Province appeared and presented solicitor, that the vast gold mining| .rm-om_mcndalwn:. rogax.(hng hoi. g | changing of the regulations, math-- . community next year would seek ods of administration and dates of incorporation as a town or city. ' closed seasons, Hon. Harry Nixon, The solicitor's notice came after| Minister of the l-'i.~lh alnd GTmc De-- r % o partment, promised that the com-- flon. T. B. Mc@uesten, Minisier of :ninm'- and department would give _ Municipal Affairs, claimed that the earnest consideration to all the sug-- township, under its bill, was seck-- gestions. ing the advantages of incorporation During !hf' di>1-ll_<.s'1(n1s thers had without having to assume the re-- been a decided (l:[rertjncc ot the Lo teeos C opinion of the delegations regard-- sponsibilities. ing the inauguration of a license The bill asked for powers to tax fee for fishing rods. Some had been the Northern Telephone Company strongly in favor of such action, on its income and to make certain while others were just as strongly levies, for garbage collection in opposed. One speaker, in advocat-- Kirkland Lake, as an example, just ing the imposition of a dollar license i as if Kirkland Lake were a town, fee, stated that up to the present instead of a community of 21,000 the hunter had been carrying all existing as a part of a rural muni-- the burden by having to secure a cipality. license, while the fisherman was From the outset of the hearing. having his sport at a comparatively committee members made insistent small expense. Inquiries as to why Kirkland Lake Mr. Nixon said no such license had not incorporated, so that it would be issued this year. "Fishing would have the desired powers with-- licenses would undoubtedly help in out special legislation. enforcing the laws, but an addition-- Staked as Claims. al license is an additional tax," he f Mr. Lillico argued that the entire said. rh_",P"'m'"'- in h'"", 'hudgot, fownship was staked as mining speech, sanrli that there would be €laims, that it had only one road no New laxo..x this year. "and the moment you move to in-- He pmmnqd lh.at' the requests forporate as a town, Lakeshore and !hat (-omxpen-ml. fishing be harre'd Wright--Hargreaves and other mines }{] .Lé.lkf'. St. ?la": and t'he Detrqn would move to be excluded from the M:";;m" ?(L-flgm::o;g:filgsl(;rll\'a:asq;\i',:l; ; :(_;";1 l;gu:';."p:\\:nl\;.l'\a.;"r:(rl \('3;12;)'::1 fishing be climingtod fmm all lakes. hughes, which are postoffices like H_r- s.a»d that seine rlsh.mg_helped Kirkland Lake, would also move to !)m increase of game rhh, in that be incorporated as police villages. it helped remove coarse fish from The mining industry wouldn't stand * the lakes. & & for it. The mining industry is pro-- H. H. Mackay, biologist of the de-- viding huge taxation to the Govern--; P?"mm'- said it was 'mPO'S'ble' to ments and it is the mines that call f'fh for lunge without interfering the terms." | with bla'ck bass, as both are shallow Following the mecting. Mr. Lillico | water fish, and he .Iorcca.sted t.hc in an interview predicted that if | tn'n'o "fhe',\' the opening of .a" fish the move to incorporation is made,| 4045003 will be July 1'. with thn' "that this committce will have the exception of those for pickerel and | biggest row on its hands it ever| trout. ' had." He predicted that the mines | "have sufficient power to block it." Were powers to tax the telephone company granted, the township would benefit by $3,500, he estim--| ated, instead of a present revenue | of $64. The total tax income of the township was $950,000. f Young Man's Town. | Pressed by members to explain what the township "does with all that money," the solicitor first warn--| * ed that "the mines in another ten| years will be a wasting industry.| } Thirty per cent of our income in 1940 * $ went into elementary _ schools.| "Gentlemen," he added, "we are a young man's town. We have a class--| room born every month. In addi--| a tion, 15 per cent goes to high schools | . and there is 45 per cent alone gone | f to education." | He argued that incorporation | would increase the cost of municipal | administration as the work is done ; » largely by a township council on a: voluntary basis. "The moment you | f attempt to incorporate the town-i ship as a city--well, you will never , * f get anywhere with it," he said. }