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March 22 | Tourist Advantages. 1 The argument for increased appro-- * ' , priations was based on the necessity of fostering th> tourist revenue from the United States, M:. McLean hold-- ing that the fisheries cannot carry on l unless given some of the money paid by tourists in gasoline taxes and 4 Liquor Control Board revenue. Mr. Lancast'r argued that it wasn't fair to hold down the department, and ; that appropriations should be ma-- | Ammnmmmmmmmmmmmemmmmemmmmmcem terially increia;cd becauseicf the ad-- * * I A R vantages which the Province devives \ 'Ch"dren's Aid Probe to Be-- _ from the tourist traffic. Curtaiiment 1 & # 4 . = of the d--partment's activitiese was . gm "When Mate"a' lt;'l:elled a poor economy by Mr. Hut-- 4 chinson. 99 D. J. Taylor. Progressive Whip, suz-- ' ls Ready gested that the Government misht 4 e e t give mwlore consideration to the work of Jack Miner's sanctuary, and Hon GAME'F'SH l N C R EA S E Jameos Lyons (Conservative, Sault Ste. * ® lt m iilh c Maviec) agreed and expressed his be-- lief in the value of the tourist traffic. Sixteen million dollars was voted by aualifying this with the, suggestion the Legislature yesterday afternoon in that in consideration of pressnt con-- . the two--hour period it devoted to the ditions no mors money should be f estimates. With no great discussion, spent. the House passed requirements of the The cpposition of the member from Departments of Mines, Game and G'!cngafrrty "x':sstpr\rgrli?d oor} l:'? 'sl':]epgiz ; FPisheries, the Provincial Secretary, cism of tou revenus, of whic! > the Provincial Treasurer, Health t:;'d ceclared, "You couldn't prove it if you Public Welfare. argued till Doomsday." Holding that| On _ the Welfare estimates, Progres-- thgutnxpaywer was paying enough, Mr.| sive Leader Nixon inquired whether Sangster picked on the appropriation the Minister could give any informa-- for the stafion located at Macdiar-- tion as to when the York County mid. "Five thousand dollars to Mac-- Children's Aid investigation would diarmid," he dGdeclared! "IL don't fas boen signed, and. when the ima-- | :1 Hion. Greorge onaines sunuied ; n ed, and, when ma-- on. rge es summ up terial is ready, the inquiry will be-- the debate with an explanation of the | gin," said Hon. W. G. Martin. g:gartr;xgx}t's iwoxl'}c.lw'l'he de'pahrtmeir;tl pa or itse t year, he said,. Beiter Time Befere. 4 though admitting that the inclusion ; Mr,. Nixon remarked that better time | i o ; | of the wolf bounty in expenditures had t had been made in launching the | reduced the surplus to a few thousand Windsor inquiry, and _ Mr. Martin| _ dollars 'The Minister pointed out, 4 pointed out that the Border probe | "but not in a critical way," that the | > ga.d ?egn xr? m'?:spimmon e';xt'g rx?(x*lye'(}mx!;?l | ipart of anglilleg ;;r%}ddcs ;evenue only oyal Co 1 is t = rom non--resident licenses. t Price remarked that Judge Parker.i *« who is conducting the investigation, | had to make the time for it conform ® with court arrangements. Criticism of the iiem for the Girls' | Training School at Galt also came * from Mr. Nixon. Informed by Mr. + Martin that there were forty girls in the school, the Progressive Leader f pointed to the $16,634 for salaries, "out of all proportion to the number cof pupils." Mr. Martin answered that the same staff would handl> a much s larger number when the new school extended its work. Provincial Secretary Challlcs was questicned clossly by the Progressive group on the method of buying cattle for the Gueiph Reformatory. Mr. Nixon sought to show that buyers for the Government also were supplying the abattcirs. ' Claims Defalcations. | On the Treasury estimates, Mr-- Nixon quizzed Premiecr Henry con-- | cerning salaries paid employsees of | the Provincial Savings Offics. He understood that teliltrs recelved as little as $523 in Toronto branches, * and that defalcations had been the | consequences of the low rate. HMs * promised to turn over his information _ on this wmhtter to the Promier. Mr. Nixon considered the $17,000 item for archives salaries "ridiculous; what do they do for it?" Mr. Honry considered the archives were perform-- ing a va@luable sorvice, and further defended the operations of the Mo-- w tion Picture Bureau. Delineation of the work of the De-- partment of CGame and Pisheriecs was initiat d when twoa Conservative mom-- bers, Coulter McLean (Conservative, ; Eglinton) and T. P. Lancaster (Con-- s servative, Peterborc') appealed for . i augmented supplies for the depart-- k ment. Th:y were joined by Earl Hutchinson (Labor, Kenora), but strong opposition was expressed by * c J. A. Sangster (Liberal, Glengarry).