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APRIL 5 | r I _ !ASSAIL FIXING _ (SEEK CHANGES E # } OF RETAIL PRICE _ IN TAXING ACT | | | | | Pirayr y B M"_K Private Bills Committee n remanmicaveaasaiee Makes Recommendations 'Retrace Our Steps' or | e« 1 ; | byi tz o g > ents to d | _A bill containing amendmen Govern A" PfO UC*S. the Assessment Act was m'vwn?':(l | Leopold MGCGUIGY Says to the Legislature yesterday b; ' mnnmmnanenmmnemmsmmemarmmem Hon. T. B. McQuesten, Minister of | STUDY ENT'RE ACT Municipal Affairs, who stated that w qurne ie yen e is the amendments were the results Revision -- of the Milk --Control of a number of recommendations Board powers, to strengthen he made to the Private Bills Commit-- prokecLioin siven {o ALMONE And AG e by various municipalities. remove the authority to fix retail "(t 6 f % £ prices, was advocated yesterd n One provided for alterations in t\ Legislature by Leopold Ma-- the system of municipal bookkeep-- callla (Con., South York) ing which would permit the use of ',,'\.M retni ',\ y ." "\I: 'T'i": mechanical equipment in preparing caulay urged ungqualified consumer the assessment rolls and would also representatio n the board. "I1 con«-- reduce the number of columns re-- tend,." he said, it consumer imn-- quired for the rolls. terest should be protected by sta=-- Municipalities may be divided in-- tute and by representation on the to areas,. by local by--law, which will board." permit the allotment of different In support of his plea to "tame days for the payment of taxos, by away the arbitrary power to lix re« installment or otherwise, for the tall prices," he added Uniless the various areas. This staggered sys-- Government is prepared to zo out tem of collection will enable the and tackle the retail trade, fix the larger municipalities to effect a price of bread and a score of other saving, as less clerical assistance items, we might as well retrace our will be required steps and top fixing the retail e -- prices of milk." The Milk Control A as given its second critical ana s o M season when an amending bill was . given second reading. Premior Hep-- * burn and Hon. P. M. Dewan, Minms-- ASk Pedestrlans tet ol Agricultur assured -- the lln\lw', that. in committee stage, an U R f' t entire section would ke withdrawn Se e ec ors --~--@ section -- which would have l suggestion that peces-- enabled the board to direct dairies tria on public highways be to collect Milk Producer Association made to wear a red reflector or membership fees from each farmer some distinguishable sign on supplying amilk -- and to pay the their backs after nightfall was amounts to the associaltion madd Legislature yesterday The section was attacked sharpiy by William Duckworth (Toronto from both sides of the House in Dovereourt) During the con-- previous debate, sideration of the Motor Vehicles "I am not in favor of repealing Act in committee Mr, Duck-- .})" "I' '." sa id \lf .\l.l'.v LMA \ l; 2 worth stalf ¢ 1}';:' man} ac-- act was properiy direcled in ine cidents ocecur on the higit\\xt_\\ first place to protect the farmers aftd nightfall because motor against fly--by--night distributors and car drivers are unable to see secondly to see that the farmers get the pedestrians along the side ' paid enough. In these 1 am in full + of the road accord, and, to that end, the act "The trouble is." said Hon. T. . shu'\llti"x..- strengthened and sup-- B. McQuesten, Minister of High-- ported." wavys, "that not only must we de-- He cited that, at the beginning of vise some device that answers the year, the !n».n«i. invited the Bur-- the purpose, but it must be lington interests down to Queen's something that the pedestrians Park for the purpose of increasing will use." -- prices in that town. The trade's representatives did not want the in« f crease. Then, said Mr. Macaulay, reading from a report of the board's order of Feb. 23, a price increase in the Burlington area was made by extending the Hamilton area to Bur=-- lington. "It was done," he charged, "be-- cause the big dairies in Hamilton * couldn't compete in Burlington. The Burlington dairies were able to sell at a lower rate. But here's the point. The price 10 the farmers remained the same. The order was not passed to help any producer."