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March C y n t flms sys«' "Very Belated Gesture." f | Mr. Nixon also questioned whether: the Minister could not do the work of: k . the board, and claimed that the bill [s1 | "is a yvery belated gesture brought | in on the eve of a general election." 1 5 | But claiming it was difficult to see | how any situation could be worse | than the one existing at present, the } Progressive Leader stated he would WITH RELUGTANCE| _ s# e m se § mr .n ' | Colonel Kennedy pointed out that AfFeermmnineprorerinfenemnminess: Mr. Nixon's suggestion of price--fixing Willing to H . } Legislatéon co%{g be hnfilemelxl)ted only y making milk a public utility. ' C _ on Pram buily © .0 | > aniineo n e wl n e r 0 ure k C | on P 'c. mty t back you to the limit on it," the Pro-- Basis | gressive Leader stated. Further inter. | change between the Minister and Mr. ym ' Nixon resulted in the information that l ' the board would probably include one + CITES GRIEF IN INDUSTRY representative each from the pro-- 1 ducers, the distributors and the Gov-- | ernment, and that license foes would Leplntine prougin progresms for hy.| "'Chifforg Case_ (C tive, North rought progress for leg--| 0 onservative, No islation introduced last week by t.hel York) and T. J. Mahony (Conserva-- -- Ministers of Agriculture and High--, tive, South Wentworth) expressed ap-- ways. Hon. T. L. Kennedy's Milk Con--| proval of the bill, the latter contend-- l trol Bill, and Hon. Leopold Macaulay's ing that the producers had not been | Highway Traffic Act. amendments' dissatisfied with present regulations | : both received second 'eadlng without and that price--fixing legislation in | encountering any great opposition. Alberta was being attacked in the % Hon. MHarry Nixon, Progressive . courts. A question from William New-- Leader, and Brant County's outstand-- man (Liberal, North Victoria) brought | ing dairy farmer, concluded a warm the answer that the legislation would . attac¥ m;m general conditions in t,hJ not affect the cheese industry. milk ustry with lukewarm approv gster posed '\ of the Government legislation. He fan is Op t 4 s was strongly in favor of having milk Only opposition to the bill was ex-- treated as a public utility, and prom-- pressed by J. A. Sangster (Liberal, ised wholehearted support to Colonel gk&?'gky "g'gm m?flatthgmm * ggnn.nedy for any move in that direc who shipped all their milk to Montreal and would be handicapped by Ontario Come Upon Evil Days. restiflcti&ns. A three--cornered expla-- The Progressive Leader an with nation between Hon. George Challies, @© confession of his persorxl:fl8 interest Mr. Newman and Mr. Sangster failed in the bill, admitting that "for nearly to convince the member for Glengarry a century the production.of milk has: that the rights of such ceporters were been the major line of 'activity on , protected. 4 the farm on No. 5 Highway." For--' Mr. Macaulay's highway legislation merly, he said, the farmer "with milk provoked discussion on only a few on his pants" was considered a good | of its clauses. Increase in the maxi-- banking risk, "'but dairying has come | mum permissible candlepower of upon evil days." Mr. Nixon declared: | | headlights aroused fears in Mr. Nixon '"'We who produce milk for a city: ' and in George Shields (Toronto-- trade have had more grief since outr | ' Woodbine) that the glare danger business has been subject to the with-- ; would be increased. Mr. Macaulay ering blight of Governmental inter--| explained that the higher--powered ference, brought on us by this Tory. lights were standard equipment on Administration, than we knew in all the new cars, and, in his opinion, our previous years." made for safety in night driving In elaboration of this charge, the when their use was properly con-- Progressive Leader referred to his op-- : trolled. With regard to the clause position to the Milk Act and "the requiring lights on wrecked vehicles j iniquitous, unfair regulations," passed left on the highway, Mr. Macaulay some years ago. Declaring that a: said: "I want the public to realize single regulation has resulted in a that when a passenger car is dis-- loss of hundreds of thousands of dol-- | -- e # A abled it must be whseled out of the lars to dairy farmers, he instanced the ; f hea path of other traffic; when a vy rule requiring the corporations to pay truck is wrecked, and too heavy to be , the contract price for milk actually moved, its position must be marked : sold for human consumption. Con--| with a lantern or flare, in the event ; tending that the producers ntust pay that its own lighting system is out : for plant wastage and accept the ( Hon" w | . dairy corporation's figures, he said: £ AOD?:'!]* ormitting maximum load-- "We find our contracts, which are, of 4 cf tru ';psen-m the highways during I course, no longer contracts, reduced l ino mnnbe 7 Y | to 60 or 65 per cent. to be paid on spring months came in for criticism | contract basis, and the rest on a but-- from _some rural members, who| terfat basis." | The Progressive Leader pointed io the demage done {o g'ra\eli. also attacked the butterfat regula-- c aay sermited the adhieuny. 'butl tions, criticizing the lack of adequate caulay admitted the o nTo thicet "s enforcement machinery in both in-- added that his bill affected only those | stances. trucks travelling on King's highway | pavements. |