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- ' MARCH ag DOUCETT HITS PUT NEW TEETH 'PROBE COSTS f, t . ' litvesti ation into cm ct EXPENDITURES Hof-Logging and Oiher two stretztrhes of 'o"it/i)',"ff'if/hswi1t Ills Checked, Says Hipel was indicated in Public Accounts . Qommittee yesterday when Opposi. , Highway Construction Highly t'l'tt-t-tirv it'f'iil are hrhip, i'ii,o/',r,eia/it',' f,i5Qgnitrerhti1t'l,tit,),r, . . dared in rv,i.o,ttl'rttuons for the irotec- , ' sec ion S h 0 U I d Be Limited iioii of Ontario's forest [,,l,',l'i',l.'J,f, ar- ff le/J/ia/Iii-eel/ft., .Highway he. Down to Maintenance cording: to a icvir'w of the Lands Ween earst and Nipigon and No. and F"olcs.st, hopai'tnitiit given in 15 Hllghway between Seeiey's Bay "Frills" in Ontario highway ('On- :ht- 1.:-;_":slature yvstrsrday by HR $.22"; agisatgn'HThhe "filo" ot the struction in wartime when only Minnow, Hon. N. o. Hint-l. And hVSOntario gin}? P'? constructed maintenance should be done and lilt')"ir' \t-|\'ilig the further puipuw of the t"/oni"dgi'i2',','tao/h/r?,i," sections while the Province's mental hospi- of protcrting financially the lax- Construction ft d3 toad chain. tats were overcrowded. youth gen- payer Whoo' inheritance they ate as costs and other d1! _lmall1t€nance erally neglected and old age pen~ \rin as thr operators who develop oi-oduced on iid co, all? "If lo be Sions and mothers' allowances "a them. . . by the A'ctin be 'J/,y1'-'iri'(irs,r)rtfi'-': shame and a scandal" brought criti- Theft of tiniht-i. "hot logging" and Highway; at Ehe gush. llllster of cism upon the Government yester- other such offenses will be dealt (taxi At this t" if setislon Mon. dav from G. H. Doucett (Frog. Cons. with strictly, the Minister said. And Minister of Publ im , . too. DEPUW ' . . M . ' . .. "P'c' _ _ _ ir.W01ks McAllister Lanark; continumg the Budget. de. As an aid to smaller opot'ators, tuni- has been instrt t d . . F bate. Iorn.srotuet guarantee bonds have been formation as tic e to ploduce 111- "Stone battleships" on the Hen- done away with. The dopaitmcnt iand Liu, "e" O'costzmaimenance ley Bridge at St. Catharines, which, has a keen me on the tr, nsfcr of [tario Govegrn J)',',','?",")", ot tll On- he said, cost the Province nearly liccnms as hell, and this now can the rdlai men, gilmeblles for $50,000. and elaborate monuments ho (10W? only by applicatirn, giving 1942 b a year -n mg March 31, at the Toronto entrance to the full particulars "ro We tiny know l . -___ 7 Queen Elizabeth Way were spccilied what the deal means." Ottr-n large in his criticism of "extravagance" wins we": involved. Mr. Ilipr-l ox- which also embraced sums Puri to planted. as much as SIOOJOH in one architects. The reported $20.000.- my" and thr: tnyylcu' commute» 000 Provincial surplus he tei'mcrl as which bought such licenses on trans- much a hallucination as the Indian frw Wcrc Ohm VAt, Will! ouydcn,s rope trick and he hated to think around their necks which made it, money was being spent for no". imposs.ible Mr them to can"): "It. essentials "when the people On the In View of the cxpennve _llC' ital. back concessions were up to their ard which foresth' faced, careful su- axles in mud." A boasted million W'HA'lril0tl was being kept over suin- dollars to farmers in subsidies Wits int-r Useis of iliem and fire losrrsr. nothing compared with huge puy- "ere hem: shat1h.r'-yluced. Almost ments elsewhere. he maintained and f' million feet. of limrlr. valued at criticized a case where he said an about a quarter of a million dollais. architect's fcc had been 37 pm. ccnt had he'll destroyed as' a it'slllt at" of the cost of the project. instead flies last 3cm. and that war hat; of the usual 3 to 7]; per cent. Wen mote faxorahle that. 111051. Referring to Government activity before the 1937 election. Mr. Dou- cett discussed a Provincial hospi- tal planned at Port Arthur and hal- ted after election. A "little cut" of this, he said, had gone to the Port Arthur firm of C. D. Howe and Co.. $3,419.62 for superintending en- gineers "what ever that is." (Mr. . Howe is now Federal Minister of Munitions and Supply). Interfer- The DiiVai'Z' i)lii\ committee of the ence with insurance rates he scor- _ 0.1mm, Leghiaiuw yrvirorday 19. ed as "for election purposes." and jetted a mitten of the Town oi charged "every promise of economy Cornwall that it i." incorporated 3nd debt reduction has SOHO by the ii.s it city The inqiimt C'dl2ir" in a Wayside." bill "hit-ii also sought approval of the :-innroiui'ioi! 'o thi- municiiiid'i!s of Cornwall of lands knoun ( the "riltsor" in Coiiiixall Township. T 'l'liv i'oiiiinitttw :ippiovcd the an- ncxation It'tttlt"<l hut icicrted that for incorporation a.~ a city at'U-i' Hon. T B. McQuestt'ii. Minister of Municipal Affairs, said the peov'ic of Cornwall wanted to lie in a clty and at the \ame lime wanted to te- tain the status of a ton-xii for muni- ' t-ipal purptlyCs, including: assess- _ ment. George S. Henry 11310;. Lion, York East) said there \'t'ds no other case of the same nature on record . and that the committee should be careful about establishing piece. dents.