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31 next. The new Welfare Department has been put into operating condition, and the founda- tion laid for further extensive services, if and when finances warrant their being under- | taken. The Highways Advisory Committee has been asked to study the vexed question of highway taxation. Conservation of game resources will also be studied by another committee. The Hydro, which has been under criticism, has had its position clarified by the explanations in the House of Hon. J. R. Cooke, Acting Chairman of the Ontario Commission. | A study of methods for the cure or treat- ment of cancer will be made, and steps have | been taken to conserve natural gas supply by stopping a price war between companies operating in Western Ontario. This course, | however, met severe criticism from the Op- | position as an interference with the rights of | consumers. The number of Judges sitting | in the Court of Appeal has been reduced, | thus permitting a speeding up of circuit work. | Several bills, affecting barbers, battery service Stations, the sale of agricultural sprays and the income tax, were dropped in the face of | strong criticism, and the bill providing for Township School Boards, for so long urged by | Mr. Ferguson, has apparently disappeared from the Government’s program. WHERE CITY MONEY GOES. | Within a few days citizens of Toronto will | receive at their front doors a batch of im- posing bills, indicating the approaching re- turn of the taxpaying season. The experi- ence is likely to spoil the day for many people, for the bills will be higher than be- fore, and there will be a certain finality about the notice, reminding one of an inescapable duty. Tbe policeman who paces your street, the firemen who dash with fury and clamor, the man who plants the bulbs in the neighboring ark; the girls who serve in the library—all Whese have to be paid from your money. Back ef that there is a big bill for erecting bridges, laying out new strects, and extending city @ervices in many directions, and the interest @harges on these capital outlays have to be miet from year to year until the capital cost Mm paid up. When we are told the taxes are $33.60 for @ach $1,000 assessment, the total is a grim