LIGHT RAILWAY PLAN BLOCKED :IN HOUSE
Committee rejects Proposal to Build Forty Miles of Light Gauge
The second attempt or the Northern Mines Railway and Development Company or Toronto to secure legislative
authorization to the construction of a 40-mile light-gauge railway from near Gold Pines to the heart of the Woman Lake-Confederation mining area was rejected yesterday by the Railway Committee of the Ontario Legislature.
The committee did not even discuss the company's bill, clause by clause, but killed It In the "principle" stage.
J. R. L. Starr, K.C., one or the promoters; Colonel Percy· Rogers, another stated shareholder of the company, and a wartime builder or railways In France, G. salter, representing the mining companies In the area through which It was planned to build the line,
were heard In support of the measure. Chief opposition came from Earl Hutchison, Labor member tor Kenora.
The bill was motivated, according to both Mr. Starr and Colonel Rogers, by the desire to advance development In the North and to reduce the almost prohibitive freight haulage rates now obtaining between steel and the Woman
Lake area.
The affairs of the Railway Committee were presided over yesterday by George Oakley, Conservative member for Riverdale. Two other bills were considered and approved, and now go on to the House.
One extends by fout more years the time In which the Mount McKay and Kakabeka Falls Railway Company will
be permitted to complete Its line from Fort William to adoining townships. The second blll authorizes the Incorporation of the Timber Products Railway and the building by the company of a freight and logging line from a point connecting with the Canadian National
Railways at Gilmour Siding, in Hastings County, to serve the timber limits operated by the concern In the Townships or Tudor, Cashel, Abinger, Anglesea and Effingham.'
