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. T _ V "or-"'"'"'""""-""'""""'-" w V 90:32.7. "" _ . ,. y ."" received ttey!,',:?,'),', "1 "17 theats, .anadian Sex-Man Relief Fund. tn - 27 l tpo,u,,n,ijyil,t:s,'.if.""'0""' o'. an increase} 806.000 to the Canadian Red (frosts I . . ' " ' ot $290.7 o. '. - _ $15,253,000 to the Canadian Patri .' '. , "In snow-prion duty 16 hare had 'tic Fund, $789,000 for the purchlatge ' .. the greatest 3 ear since tttttBe impotrte of machine guns, $210,300 to the on}; , were made unon the estates of per- glans and $287,000 to the Fer-cu}- . P sons dying and holding property in "iiitii'ndri.' ' ' "i __' ' Ontario. During the part fiscal year - . , t g V .' we collected from estates the sum gr, Annual Needs in l isli. ; ",228,'226.S'8, .as agaiant, in 1916" Touching on the Government will $2,451,794, tbeing an; increase . (Of policy, Mr. McGarry said that the $.776,4r2.38. There were last year estimated quantity of fish requires} . twenty pstates which paid upwards by the people of the Province a. . of $30.000 in duty; one t:',1ttei,,e,a,,id one year is G,200 tons. If Ax cw. $602,000, and another estate $.360,- , is saved on every pound there will/I V 000, g be an annual saving of 520, s tdi -' Hstateg Since the levying of tshe v3z?i9°tat-' . " as 4' . ._'. t . I of one mill, three years ago, tt/soT." _ "During the year we Itait with 000 has been collected. Ot this a. number of estates of soldiers, whOI amount $3,948,000 has already been _ [died on the field of battle. or fronil expended on war purposes. This {wounds received therri. altogether. year tho Government added to its; l we remitted duty of" 't.io11l.if,Tii'o.e'terty f:ixoe.'i'r'?dipu',r/i" $1,200,000 for the Pat- . f to the amount o . Lou . le, r otic und and gave $150.00 tr; i largest estate I,.',',',,',"",:.)")'). regiisiirhi the Orplmirton IIOSpital in Angloand, was granted was that of e a " Between three and five him .1 . , George T. Richardson of Kingston. thousand dollars was 'evsfi,e/"JenJC','f,l i'l'liis estate was valued at "Om EDWIN": an": "die? overseas. he . . 042.18. _ ec are a . e n't believe the 1 T q _ _ ... ' ..r-Kh , basis of levying the tax on Jer canto . . 'IC";. Money "Midis. of population was proper.1 Outiqide . y l Mr. Achtii-l'y said the United of Toronto he had never heard anv 2 States money markets had tty complaints that the methods of levy: I,t'losred to ttntario since the Itotiii ilic . llla' the tax on property wai unfair. lentered the war and the Hr.rvint'e Mr. McGarry predicted that before . liizd been able to "carry on" "gun. tho and of tho fiscal year more than felony as n tisult of the income and. 158.000.000 will have been expended I "he balance from otlicr yours. (fin-i . for war purposes. . itario was undoubtedly "the sound-l Mr. c. M. lion'mun of M"esst Bruce, . * . 10% Proritrrw, Dominion or nation (in the imposition financial critic, . i; " lunged in the our." During' the year! ill, and has been unable to attend _ "he Province borrowed five mzlli-vnal tho session. Mr. J. I'. Elliott oi" _ _ . i ry this. two. million? Ivero 1',o,T)'r':',,ef.1.,i flVont Middlcse}; therefore nioVed thei . 3-"; 5..00i) PM cent. 011001" ary," __ ' Il .yl;joynT.ent, and will continue the , I mission and one million at 4.92 pm! denote this afternoon from the Lib..), rent. He did not think any "[1101" eral side. l Province or wountry had been al-lel -"""-t"T-r-rrt1-Tr-- l t to borrow at Mich favorable rates. Ir, addition two millions had been] borrowed ill one of the banks at the; . lend of the your at 6 per cent. Anl _ ' extremely acute situation developed! . when the Trnited States was shut off] to Ontario for borrowing. it was' . no a favorable time to put on It loan! . her. The T"inanc'e Minister at! . Ot awa sent for the Ontario Trens-l inrer seine weeks ago and satisz(--} ' ,tory arrangements were. made for]; l fiuanr'ing Ontario so long as the war" . it'rliitinues for what is obsolutcly (s- (rtsr.tial, Some bonds would be plac- :ei-; locally in a short time at a lower rate than it would be possible to . secure from the Finance Minister. f 'Expmiditurcs Grow. _ . l Mr. MoGarry added that as the re- ceiots had grown so also had the c):- . . lrte/uiiturdk. Over five millions was ', (spent on the Ifydro-rlectric qystom . _ last year. he said, including $2,006,- 000 on the Niagara system; $458,000; lon the Central Ontario' systeinll $215,000 on the Severn system; .: l$183,000 on the Eugenia Falls SSS-l tom. and $900,000 not Classified. , From the T. & N. o. Railway the! li'rovince had received $250,000, as! _ . .against $1,000,000 the year bcfore,t . . butthe million in 1916 was made up . . partly of revenue and partly from a vrotit and loss account which the . f ' ' (lmnniission had been building Up. IThe T. & N, o. Railway was oper- gating 4,5.9 miles, and the opemting' revenue for the year was $'2,031,9()5i,i _ operating expenses were $1,881.000.| and net revenue, $516,000, not in-i . cluding $66,000 revenue from other[ sources. Considering the turmoil oft ' ithe past year, this was a proud Occ-; . ford for the T. & N. o., said Mr. Bic-i Garry. The revenue per mile was': . 7i)'J8.a's.yrairssttivit)ginoaus,aA-ii, . . the operating expenses were. $6,001,! .. . '93 against $5,173 in 1016. The priy-i roll of tho, railway had increased iv? 6 $140000 in 1917. 'l " t Provincial Resources Committee. : V The Provincial Treasurer paid tri- . . bute to the work of the Organizer-i tion of! Provincial Resources Com-l- . mittee, which was formed upon thel suggestion of the Hon. Newton. Howell, former Opposition leader.' _ . The. .Resources Committee had been linenarge for three years of .hei _ British Red Cross campaign here, _ . . and under its auspices Ontario had! . - given 54.943078 to the British Red ",.. (rose, as against $603,000 given by T .' .all the other Canadian Provinces . , put together. Sir John Hendrie, as _ President of the committee, had Hione great work. _ _ T l . a' '_'_ . _Since t?.1t beginning of the war,} V . ' $3119 t'srsi)f1."ayT,s,': Ontario Las giver. ',", . $20,400. 00 in money, and $4.0),- T 32255111131132 forligatriotic and lied '. c" :', " . .. me u ing $4,943,000 to h :/1sij:, tte British Red Cross, 831.311 to the] 15.9.7. l L