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" f * 4 4 9 Srvegy . ' / AID TO MOTHERS __|| Estimates for Hydro FX ENDED Passed by Legislatur | TO BE T Before adjournment shortly C e o after 12 o'clock last night the Amendments to Act Prowde Ontario Legislature passed all of the Hydro estimates, with the ted for Deserte exception of a $21,000,000 item || for Chippawa power develop-- | Mothers ' ment. This was held over for hn nevmnsen aae | further consideration. | ke | , P¥ 99 '__ i e e w e en aaclie aatae on ic ae on oi crcien in c vee ce R ALSO "PROBLEM CASES en« | Important amendments to the $5 Om PERYEAR a ' I Mothers'® Allowances Act were intro-- | 2 ' !duued into the Ontario Legislature | 2)'esterday by Hon. Walter Rollo, lFOR CO Minister of Labor. ' I According to the Minister, the| f I e i it o changes are proposed upon the re-- i + s | commendations of the Mothers' Al-- Municipal Committee of Leg-- § }lowances Board, and provide for | a * assistance in cases at present 0ut~5 ISlatUI'e ADDI'OVBS Blu ' side the act, enmbracing, among| | % | other things, the principle of care of: | to A"OW Th'S | deserted mothers. | lltie ces iv it es oi ty ! i Summarized, the proposed amend-- | ments bring under the scope of the JF ELECTORATE AGREES act the following: § | The wife, with one child under 14 j Hher is imoimnet Ammommni o | years of age, whose husband is total-- Fif% € 4 m s 3 bCs s J¥ C 1 T iy Incapacitated. . Hm. Iunicipal Committee of the The mother with one child under | Ontario Legislature yesterday ap-- 14 and one child over 14, which are proved a bill, introduced by Major incapacitated. Gray (Leeds), which vides f In the case of the death of the E: SS ds). Pro es that, parents, the grandmother, sister or | with the assent of the eleCtorS" aunt, or guardian in care of the tmembers of the Toronto Board of children. y h } | Control may be paid a sum not ex-' A deserted mother, where the 3 ® 3 father has been absent for five years | ceeding $5,000 per ::\,nnum. Their or more. | present stipend is $2,500. A mother whose husband is an in | Ald. Burgess spoke in favor of mate of an asylum anywhere it ! the measure and not one member Canada. The act at present place: | sed the bill limitation to asylums in Ontario. '()ppob e bill. Power is also given in the amend The committee, by a big majority, ments to deal with "problem cases' 'declined to reopen Mr. McNamara's not strictly within the terms of th 3 lals & 3 o act, and there is provision for reci bllrl to exempt brick dn'('i 'tlle Nau procal action between Province facturers from the provisions of the | having similar measures in effect. smoke prevention by--law. Hon. ~A Intimation was given by the Min y | Geo,. Henry's bill to subject to town-- ister that the age limit of childre ship taxation the Toronto Jail farm coming under the terms of the ac lands was defeated. might be raised from 14 to 16, i ----'------_________m' conformity with the Adolescer | 'Bchool Attendance Act. This phas > * ' Hon. Mr. Rollo said, could be dif Mothers' Pensions Board :ussed in committee. # * _* i [* Innnmmnrnninnmmnmaricearees Comes in for Criticism . y R. R. Hall, Liberal member for f BIII TO AU[HOR]ZE Parry Sound, declared in the On-- | tario Legislature yesterday that| ' POWER P "there is a screw loose somewhere" in the administration of the Mothers' A e Allowances Act, and he demanded ' « « trtat it "be tightened.'" Mr. Hall| l over s Mr. Hall] , flment Bl'lngs In Mea- thsught that some of the members| s sure to Approve C'ty,s postibly had too many irons in thef E * s fire, and consequently could not de--| ; Blg Undertakmg vote 'the attention they should to the,! 3 Legith Ne mss affairs of the board. He read a com--| 3 chaes' ?.tion to approve the pur-- plaint from a Cobalt woman who| 3 teresset- O"b the M?.ckenzie power in-- had been unable, after four months,| ( E s 'by the city of Toronto was to secure consideration of her case. ' * introduced into the Legislature yes-- [ betecenemenarenetnnetometameven anarmnmemepimnnd | 3 f tenday by Hon. D. Carmichael. A!-- j 4 J | j xtxl:-?gf: fssj)""a"y a private meas-- Legislation to Permit | 4 *» s brought into the House h s « under the auspices of the Govern-- | Searching Boats for Liquor i ent, i f SCeHsi owing to the lateness of the Attorney--General Raney _ intro-- 3 ssion and the importance of the . f proposals contained therein. It is duced into the Legislature yesterday _ entitled '"An Act Respectin t] his amen@ment to the O.T.A. which . Purchase by the Ci C s s the AsSSets of Cert::;HOfCToronto of ¢ will permit police officials to search J In it authority is given tomt];xl){tn:)i?ér bokle onopont n biplainsd Chat 4 § the Toronto Niagara Power Com-- it had been thought that this power | pany, the Toronto Electric Light was given under the old act. | + Company and the Metropolitan divi-- inagbestvent luianentneretpaiiarninrmee wrerronnemcae | $ t sion of the Toronto & York F me==--feaaaeeaaane= e ork Radial, 3 and also authorizes the issue of the f necessary debentures t -- leal y s to finance the «on Wignenemrenenmerenieiere c 30 00 wor 00000 omm 0090700 + m cermepegmmmeme ° M