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- ----------------------------- March ts, ', . J d . . I B d i lBI" Sponsors u ICIG oar I If RE T H dl L' . ', 0 an e Iquor Licenses CURB (hl PORK Handling of liquor licenses and compliance with the act. failure tol, . rich beverage authorities is removed tiii,)iii'ir"s',, out orders of the board or ot'hePJ2trt',nDoetptec'gl'tteo1t'rtr,et the Ontario Liquor Control Boardin the Liquor Board or fire marshal, cultre told the agricultural com- a bill introduced in the Legislature persistent failure to keep premises mittee of the Legislature yesterday yesterday by Attorney-General Les- clean, non-compliance with a muni- that it may be necessary to again he Blackwell. Licenses will be cipal by-law and for hny offense restrict domestic consumption of handled by a Judicial board to be involving "moral tyrtfitlyit 11y,i,eri, pork in order to fill overseas con- set up. prowsions of the Cr iminal Code. tracts, but it was doubtful if such Rights and obligations of licensees The board will pass on hotel au- restriction would be as severe as will be determined by the bill, the thority transfers and there are prevailed during time of meat Minister said. The measure. with strict regulations concerning mi- rationing in Canada. a complementary bill amending the nors. Violations of the act. will Marketings of hogs in Canada in Liquor Control Act, passed first bring penalties of from 810 to $50 the first ten weeks of this year reading. {for first offense and Imprisonment totalled almost one million more The new board, which will supeeup to 30 days for subsequent of- than in the same period last year. vise authorities. is to hold htarir1gslie1ses. . . Up to March 11 this year 2.208.021 throughout the Province in die The bill also sets out regulations. hogs were marketed by Canadian tricts to be specified later. It willigoverning persons to whom beer or producers as against 1,239,289 tori he able to summon witnesses underlwine may not be served, hours of tho same period last year. i oath as in civil courts. |sale. requirements of employees and "Up to last week," he said. "thel rim ragsnn' for which licensesifees'for issue and transfer of au. meat board has shipped 200 million may be cancelled are listed as non-tthorities. pounds of bacon to Britain this year. We have contracted to supply Britain with 900 million pounds during 1944-45 but more than two. thirds of this amount will be! shipped this year. I see no dittieul-l, ty in reaching this figure." § He placed weekly consumption of . a pork in Canada today at about 4 Bill Em owers Local Police million pounds greater than during p the period when sale was restrict- . ed. This did not mean that Cana- To Round Up Slot Machines dians were eating that much more meat, but that pork consumption had greatly replaced that of beef A bill to outlaw slot machines in' Machines would have to be and had tended, perhaps more than Ontario "WNW" first reading .Nes- brought before a magistrate. how- anything else, to account for the terday ill the Legislature. it permits ever. P. more purpose of their the. present "dragRy" meat market. iito Attorney-General',; Doirurtmonl thus oiiffereniiating betwpon ma- .---.---------, lo deal "1010 fully with these ma- chines used for gambling and those chines, opt-intion of which is cover- used for innoi-ent amusement. ed lllidt'l the Criminal Code. , Since even childrpn'.c, toys could Ropl.sinc, to G. A. Strange tC.C.F.. he tt.sed for gambling. he /ell,theye Bl'alllfCl'ti: Aitorney-Geuoral thlie'wns need for this discrimination in Blackwell, uho introduced the bill.!""f 590W of le Act, hence this re- said it provides lot Provincial oris"""lon was included. local police to seize slot machines on the ground that no person can have property right to them. "Gambling on any sort of device is covered at present by the Crim- inal Code," Mr. Blackwell explained. "A strange anomaly, however, leads to a highly undesirable result as to the functions and duties of the Attorney-General's Department. To deal with them under the Criminal Code, although all these machines are used for gambling and are the result of the activities of racketeers who place them on premises, we can prosecute only the little fellow; on whose premises they are found. "My department dislikes prosecut- ing little people to stop a racket. This bill makes it possible to pro. ceed. it provides for police to seize . slot machines on the ground that no person can have property rights in slot machines."