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Saturd ay,. Feb 27 th ¢ Gives Emphatic Denia To Newspaper Story _ Q l in Cabinet _ _Of Quarrel in » . --=____ Attorney--General Repudtatesl * Suggestion of Any Breach h With Provincial Treasurer, s ' and Declares W orkmen's i Compensation Act Is Wcll' ' I Administered | I' HOME BANK TRIAL --_| | --COST SUM OF $I6l.000; | in inss | 3 1 ' . Firm denial of a newspaper story | suggesting that he had disagreed | | with Hon. W. H. Price, Provincial | Treasurer, over questions of admin-- istration of the Workmen's Compen-- h sation Act was voiced yesterday in the Legislature by Attorney--General t wW. F. Nickle. l "I don't know what purpose the f writer of this article had in view," said Mr,. Nickle, "but if the objccti . was to create a breach between the David and Jonathan of the House the story has been singularly inef-- fective." Deals With Article. -- Before the orders of the day were called, Karl Homuth (Independent # Labor, South Waterloo) called Mr. Nickle's attention to the article, de-- claring that if conditions as repre-- sented therein were true it was "'t% mighty serious matter.'" The story, ; in addition to dealing with the al-- ; | leged disagreement, suggested, it + I ' might be said, certain irregularities ; within the act's administration. In his reply to Mr. Homuth, the At-- ; torney--General dealt one by one : with the suggestions, branding them, ; with one exception, as "not true." Mr. Nickle denied the statement that there was no actuarial value of ; the pension fund, and said that, | while the newspaper story had rep-- | resented that uncashed cheques of , the fund aggregated $100,000, an ex-- ; cessive estimate, as a matter of fact, would be $40,000. "As to that part of the item," said Mr. Nickle, "which deals with the . possible confiscation of compensa-- | tion cheques which have not reached | their ownrers, and consequently are i not cashed--that is not true. The : story states that lediger accounrts f have been dAestroyed. This also is 7 untrue. 'The> ledger accounts are | | there today as they always were. ; \The item also refers to the transfer | of 8600-,0q0 from pension to current . } account as though there was some | i suggestion of irregularity." l