The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 21 Mar 1946, p. 1

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Ond 1 eeenmpmeeemeeeeeeniee March 21 'Province to Guarantee Bonds For Produce Terminal Market A bill to establish a farm pro--|stage. Agrlcultt_xre Ministex: Co'l. T.\ duce terminal market just west of | L. K_enngdy said }he Province's fi--| the Toronto city limits to improve _nancxal mtergst in the undertgk- produce distribution, was one of|ing was confined to .guarangeemg more than 20 measures advanced |the bonds. The terminal will be in the Legislature yesterday. It directed by a board of seven and was advanced through committee|will not affect any present busi-- n mss nesses, the Minister said. _ Eight bills including the Co-- operative Marketing Loan Act, re-- ceived third reading. The bill amending the Minimum v; Wage Act was given second read-- ) ing. It will "establish a minimuml | wage for the prevailing weekly| | work period in the business of anyl ; employer or for any other work-- 3- ing period which the Labor Boardl may establish." The bill provides| f minimum hourly rates for over-- f time and for those who work less than 40 hours a week. ' Natal Examination _ _ Free Pre--Natal Examination -- | P d in Kelley Measure . | roposed in Keilley ure | Prenatal medical examination free|occurs," said Mr. Kelley. Much wasli for any woman in Ontario is pro-- SP°nt, he said, in curing disease;] is o 1P mwhren , L. 3 _3 | more should be spent for preventive| vided in a bill introduced yesterday medicine and this was one step in | in the Legislature by Health Minis-- that direction. | ter Russell 'T. Kelley. To meet| A flood of bills, both private the cost, $500,000 was provided in and Governmental, were introduced.! the Budget tabled by Provincial Among these were two by Robert| Treasurer Leslie Frost. [Carlin (C.CF., Sudbury) to amend| The objective of the legislation, acts to provide for a 40--hour work| Mr. Kelley explained, is to launch week without reduction in "take-- a& drive to reduce infant and mater--| home" pay time and one--half for| nal mortality rates, to reduce the overtime but limiting total over-f number of babies born with diseases time to eight hours in any day and | or afflictions caused by prenatal 100 per year; and to eliminate| disease in the mother, and to re-- the seven--day waiting period for| duce disease generally. Medical workmen's compensation cases and| authorities, he said, had told him|increase compensation to 100 per| that high blood pressure, kidne_v'cont of previous wages. | disorders and venereal disease in a yere mother often result in death or serious illness of either the mother or baby. * | '"We hope by this method, for which the physician will receive $5 an examination, we will bring con--| ditions to light, before disaster |

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