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The Provincial Cabinet will (-m.-! sider the request of a co--operative | tobacco company which seeks some | financial assistance so that it can make an advance payment to the growers. This statement was made !'.\' Minister of Agriculture Dewan in the Legislature yesterday after Colonel Drew had asked for infor-- mation. "I understand." said Colonel Drew, "that there are 2.171,000 pounds of processed tobacco, owned by the Union Co--operative Tobacco Com-- pany stored at Tillsonburg, which ® cannot be sold because the company needs funds to make payments to the growers. My information is that representations were made to Ot-- tawa, but they were given the cold C e uie iefi shoulder by Gardiner. Later, they --. sought assistance here. I under-- stand there are negotiations undet Beer Llcense way now which will be greatly facilitated if the Government can C I U d give some assistance." are S rge The Minister .~::\~d he had not ; ¢ had time (o go into the question Before the orders oi the «lay thoroughly, but said the Cabinet )Gbighv m,"('d in the L("'"'\Imu'(':\lv'\' would consider it within a few days. terday Colonel Drew, the Opposl"r"" "At first I did not think we had Leader, rn\'orlcd' to "."' .\:uh,u_'(-l o a the authority to make such an ad-- rather heated discussion which oc-- vance, but now I think we may be curred -dunng the (~onsldm'anon' of able to help them. We will do all the estimates for the ALLOTMSN--LO! that we can." eral's Department on Tuesday night. Colonel Drew drew the attention of the chairman of the Liquor Con-- trol Board to two press reports of * deaths due to men being roughly handled in beverage rooms. "These two reports were publish-- ed two days apart last week," he said, "and surely they are sufficient grounds for the board seeing that only the proper type of men are given authorities to run hotels. The first report tells of the death of Oscar Salminen, following injuries received after spending some time in a hotel on Spadina Avenue in this city. The other tells of the con-- viction, on a charge of manslaugh-- ter, of a man named Turcotte in Sudbury, following the death of a ® school teacher named Hunter."