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w "---- l Manchu, . . Won't Evade Respomlbility. Re orf Filo ' Li nite Ag Opposition member murmur- ed Hong Kong," referring to the . Royal Commission inquiry on this; N + Co ercial Fuel . 2te,'/if'tc'un/,', the Premier nodded: mm y. tt I ' "Yes,_ Hong Kong," he agreed.l . . 'We will never resort to that type? m iHe e +0 ons I d of a commission to evade respon-E. om t ?, er sibility here. But there are mat- ters bwnich, with all respect to A committee of the Legislature Labor Progressives, was suggested mzmnStrsinoi tpe,it1it/riilatteti, trlite}!y will be named to consider the Orr. by the Pre.mier to study the report. There is the matter ot the Yime. tario Fuel Commission" report on a: tptr. gri'Poi'id KeLso. Rob. needed. and there are certain sub- li ite "hich was tabled in the; ' . l .a tic as C airman. .iects which members have not. the Ign -, . d l l The Opposition groups in the special skill to permit them to House yesterday. Appointe . f'S']House offered no objection to this arrive at the basic conclusions so October. the three-man '"'mm"isloNctyrs? C.C.F. Leader E. B. Jolliffe necessary to a decision." headed by Dr. H. B. Speakman. pre-iasltod if thCse.oe ot the Tnymittee Neither the Mines Commission) rented to the Government a voiur4,"l',"e',lf,,,,le, gimited to lignite or nor ,trts Fuel Commission was '5" . ort covering all phasesi . .r ot er related fuels could_hc administrative body in any senate. minous rep :conSidored. The Premier replied the Premier said Their functionl of the subject. ithat 1hss report before the House was to inquire into certain facts) In its summary the commission/alt only with lignite and this and report. back to the Government} found: iiit'nlllid he the sole subject up for Recommendations Clear " - . s my. . That la»! ltgmte Can-0M} be US"?; Mines Mini?!" Leslie Frost gave th No}? may 1.56:" With regard tol at the deposit and it is not a com a lengthy rpvlcw of the lignite situ- . t r'."! preliminary Interim re. ntercial fuel. When processed. nr;ati0n and what had been done in ports whichwere tabled yesterday med with bituminous coal. it can'mst years. It was with the idea of fit',') the F11i.r1t, Commission, that be used for domestic and certain,Tlieyinx what appeared to be an ":31. 1rt /,',,'f,?,e/',,t',.if to Pf Ir.ery industrial purposes, provided theilmminent fuel shortage this winter iii diffi mime; mans yyry1i.in.g economic factors involved are sur. that stops were taken to investigate are . 9;?an yes of the ach" ficienttv favorable. Processed lig-'the Possibilities of lignite being ill",',.,',,", tusi town"? related to the nite should not be ttg,ar'tiod as a,11s"d in such an emergency, Mr. il',)l11/1f'i'edr."inuost1r,,y,', (,i',','e,,r,'i',eir a.very potential furl for use in 1oeornotivesiFrost said. lit; the 'iinna0,ut,1,'ire, 'i mm." itself, of thr Government-owned railway/Deposit on Abitlhl River. ication in rel f,, O Titling. edu- the T. & ICO. i The li it d . r I . , on o. 'mmmg,' That the cost of completion of theio t . ignie PpOSlt in northern shealth in relation to mining. and!' experimental plant and a nine.: na_r1015 Situated on the.Temis- Iso on it. would have been ex-i months' program of mining, promikammtz and Northern Ontario Rail. tremely difficult to have achievedi using and market iriirGiTigiii2i/'g'.,'y.'ifn the ":eSt bank of the Abitibi {the same results by the appoint- Would be $213000. Up to the PM"Rixei, 126 .Piles north of Cochrane merit, y any parliamentary com-l of 1943 total Governmvnt expendi- and 380 mile: north of North Bay. mittee. he continued. ture was $855851. ngie iaw lignite is on per cent mo s- 'I do want, on this occasion, to 9. {tum For the same available heat Ipay tribute to the members of the Reliable Data Exported. limits as United States bituminous' 'Mining Commission, to the chair- That with adequate technical and coal, 1.6 times the weight and 2.5 man, Mr. Urquhart, and all the managerial supervision this pro- limes the volume of processed lip members of that Commission, for _ gram should produce reliable daminite is required. the splendid work they have done! .' In regard to the characteristics of Premier Drew said the three in- in conducting this impartial iii-l , the Northern Ontario deposit, min-'terim reports prepared bv the quiry into every aspect ot our Mimi ms problems and costs, "rocfssittCommissidn of Mining and the re.- . lng problems. They have not finish, methad." consumer reaction m 'he:port from the Fuel Commission (ed their work. They still have muchi indiistrial and commermai fieltis,,iwere the result of long and de- Ito do, but what they have presented crowded the fuel is sold at a cost'tailed study of the problems under, will make it possible for us to deal " inch is.b.ased on estimates for aiw'sstigatiou. I with certain aspects of that prob. O , . I . ' r rost are concerned, tho 'iiiiiiiiiiriii/,,','t as to the functions of a coma Report Praised. . says thev vary from sk to (i.5"c'3'iCitll'eit"..1, and the part such commis-i At this point the Premier re- tom At the Ga, figure i,'ri"'i21'd/.s,iey play. said try. Premier. "Iti ferred to the t.iecisior! to. reopen rurriite could compete) with PM; mid-0698- not imply shelving of respon-- the school of mines at Haileybury prevailing prices. but at the hi herISlbllllY by a Government. I take as a technical institute of mining figure it could not. g inc offense at the critictsm often and metallurgy. In its concluding remarks the'ldn'e'Cted at Ptoyal Commissions, but "There is a very proper and use- commission points out that [he fueliI WlSh'iO pomt out that there are ful place. for a Royal Commission. problems for 1944-45 are not clear'towo types of Royal commissions. when it is_properly. constituted oni and it is not know 'h l l ne. brings together people with an impartial basis," the Premier! T . n u ether the special qualifications for a par- said. I lignite development. should still he iicular task who are abl t d , t . . regarded as a potential fuel rosirrviiiii/1', a l t d , . e 0 evo e I The Premier prtistd the work. of for Northern Ontario. Production hri m s uv to tt, and then the FUN Cemny?islon., declaring on a commercial scale Could h with: an analysis before the Gov- that it was the first time a Gov- . . ("not 9P ernment. ernment in Ontario had been given achieved before the season of u , . . . . ' 49444 t't1hefisissleethi',',rtotydpt r',vlt,ill, "matter. maintain: ,. o _ isre e, " 4 First Detailed Facts. continued the Premier. 'viTi'"lte'),',' 'intricate problem." Piemier George Drew, in tabling useful power of creating a Royal the report. said the findings of th/commission has been abused when commissmn gave the Legislatureia commission is set up to which the first detailed factua} s'ntorma/tacts are referred for the purpose tion that has been available to this of efficiently embalming them. In or. any other Government. A com- these cases the matters referred to A' 3nlttee ot 15, seven from the Gov. them should have been referred to ernment. five from the CCF,, twoithe Legislature." from the Liberals and one from the!