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Pm Rmy 7w--w ; 4 Evefcto}vdme Adm'**le: Charges Ottawa Shows [ # \| y Minister of Healt U tter Incompetence' _ While admittedly there is over-- Conservative Leader Drew fnr' crowding in Ontario mental _ hos-- the second successive day in' the | pitals, the Government has not at Legislature, lashed out at the Do--| present, a building program in mind, minion Department of Agriculture ; Health Minister H. J. Kirby advised Sefterday and charged . it wilh | i 1 nis < o. | ho "utter incompetence" in its failure Conservative Leader Drew last night to drait a co--ordinated farm pro--| in the Legislature. duction program. | It was, said the Minister, a matter "Tht' _timv is .10"2 overdue for the % for the Government to decide. Lieu-- :::":al\n('::'l ';:Lln'::::' \ni[L Agl:'ll'l'j"l"(" uty it I ick L t SA ) & "gorous terms tenant.Colonei Drew said he had to the Department of Agriculture| been advised there was a waiting at Ottawa that this Province and| list of 1,5300 at the Orillia Hospital, thrs Government can no longer! and that overcrowding at the Fort tolerate the utter tncompetence of . a+--~ ts the Dominion Department of Agri-- William Hospital was "terrible." He culture and will be forced to set suggested that, if present hospital u h i k R & C letely separate C buildings wore of a nature that per-- O[p'" :'?'Tfi, y separate program manent additions could not be made, 1 IG;UIPI]H.III Colonel Drew nR 4 4 * s & that temporary buildings should be Tuesday charged in the House that 'to | p % y r c "';'l v' ':\ p uid It Wi CCexsary 1 Wartime Prices Administrator Gor-- br: s \:, ',\} o y '.\.\.d_'." " "':'\ ,';' don was "talking through his hat," ring ivorlnern patlients io south when in a speech at Winnipeg Mon-- Ontario, because the Fort Wiiliam dasy he said wheat was not neces-- I:"\p""l ""'l q:;"" f??:ll, He '"""'d sary tn help win the war. The fere were idU0 patients in h« Conservative Leader dectared then Orillia MHospital, but claimed the that the administrator $S@leclaration \C"'él"":fi Il;" ""'i'""'"'l';f\ large as of policy--a declaration that should birks Ni tew induicatet. :. have been left with the' Minister It is true there have been man» of Agriculture, Hon. James G requests for admissions there, and Gardiner--showed a breakdown in we have adopted the policy of tak-- responsible government ing in only those of soldiers' fam-- F * ilies and those who are charges on the Children's Aid branches "'There have been a greater num-- ber of applications of late. I hesi-- tate to say that parents seek to re-- s lieve themselves of caring for thei: ; children." i ! . # # 4 % # _ Small Retail Ceiling Rise i Would Provide R e l i ef |\ _ Delegates to Tuesday's beef con-- I ference at Ottawa agreed that an | embargo upon the export of Cana-- | dian cattle to the United States | "would be a mistake." Ross Mc-- 'iEwing. tLib.. Wellington North), ' and representative of the l.l'gis!a-' !ti\'e agriculture committee to the| ; | conference, reported to the House| yesterday. "As the conference saw it, the only immediate relief that could be brought in would be by raising the. 4 retail ceiling at this time. We were | s iahle to sell that idea up to a point. | | Donald Gordon, head of the Wartime | Prices and Trade Board, was not in Ottawa, but officials are meeting | Mr. Gordon today," he said. : % *"'The committee felt," said Mr. McEwing, "that a small raise in the ceiling would not be objectionable to the consumers, as their huying! ; power has been increased to a point | that it would not disturb the cost--| j of--living index greatly." ]