M se yoBe-- FEBRUARY :6 E!ponu to Ontario xpoenses Xiioreabtit Several Join Colors. ; In the line of unforeseen expendi-- Another top--notch pilot has bee Dug to w.r All'..d --itures attributable to the war, the o s £ P j P " y Premier cited not only the anti-- :}E\:orac'lnhor'r:.:?'l't;nn: 8;':: osesuli: L x xE!COOdS s' .000.000 | ::bz;.:'m":m":;_Gi':":;'lfsh':)'e;'::}: addition to these members, it is Siememimnmenrevisgeimints P ment, but $150,000 as the Province's creditable to observe that three EFFECT 1§ WIDE share of the Youth Training Plan |°pth°ri c'i:fh;fmskm'{ p"':'tsthot the applicable to aircraft mechanics; irov . ha rj iervdc:han lreeen- sm--sg--mg<ss and the removal of the patients gtnt;:s p;gtso m;oe l?le?v::' ::3 M In their determination to see the from the St. Thomas Mental HoS+ | qeprge Philllp;. having distinguish-- war through to a victorious. 'com. [ I| pita'..MWen NN lontt to the Domin-- |aq themselves in the last Great clugion. | th ion Government as an air force |war" said the Premier . the people of Ontario are | |training establishment, $12,748.59. "Th ds of blankets, bel prepared to stake their last dollar Moreover, the Premier cited, the art gtu s&:; ssto?'es otm:h: st'lre :.':_ / _ and furnish the last man, if need | | interest and depreciation charges ?ective service, were lent andplre | ,be, Premier Hepburn declared yes-- | |9" the hospital buildings, which the |g{;11 peing used by the Department | 'terday in his Budget address as he| | Province is bearing, amount to AP*| | of National Defense." unfolded to the Legislature the de-- proximately $325,000 per annum. In the realm of mines, he noted . _ gree of the war's impact upon the The Department of Health, which |;nat nicke! and copper are vital to: Administration. bore the brunt of the work in trans* |ime struggle for survival Ontario , Even in the bare few months that | . ferring the mental patients from St: |was now in a better position to as-- | have intervened | since the war Thomas and arranging their care in |w;s}; than in 1914, owing to the fact declaration, expenditures directly | | AlTeady overcrowded hospitals Ad-- |{mat refineries have been establish» attributable to Ontario's assistance | | Ministered by the department, NAQ |pq in the Province. Resumption of in prosecuting the conflict have | -_o(fel'ed the services of its labora-- operations at the I'ielen Mine, huge mounted to $1,057,748.59. The cost | |tories as well as its clinics in both | yepository of iron ore, "has brought ' of exchange on securities payable in | |!UDéfrtulosis and mental diseates . ; |pack Ontario into the list of iron-- New York funds, for the ensuing | "During the first four months Of | pre producers." The Government, fiscal year, alone is estimated at | th* WAL O%C" 3,000 specimens T€| |ca;q the Treasurer, would continue |$1,842,913.88, and, should the war ferred by the militia authorities | ;s subsidy on iron.productlon \ continue -- until September, 1944, | NC examined in our laboratories $ tive cost will mount, the Provincial | | and 15000 ounces of Isphold vaccmel Treasurer estimated, lo . $13007,. , |wore divitibuios free l6 protect | 456.60. | s;lidi:;;s wnhl.:tth: Provinc? azall'nst | * R rrewet this discase. the same time, hos-- | safiiml.h': ;':2::"3,': '2:':"s;r§':g°": pitalization facilities were offered | * nearly every department, and have for soldier casualties, said the ranged in their consequences from Premier. compelling the formation of an :39 Airfields Surveyed. anti--sabotage guards force over In the Department of Highways, power plants, costing $895,000, to the engineering staff, he continued, causing almost unprecedented ac-- has surveyed thirty proposed mili-- s tivity in the Registrar--General's tary airfields for the Department ~ Branch, where a staff of harried _ of Transport. Ten plans covering employees has been issuing marriage -- those fields have already been and birth certificates. turned over to Ottawa and instruc-- Today, warned the Premier, Can-- _ tions have been issued to the Surveys | ada was not only at war with a Branch that surveys are requested | ruthless and powerful enemy, the from Ottawa be given preference | German Reich, but was vitally con-- over all othor work. | n ccnmencomcetemmmmenneemmentemamesemeirome . & j ndeclared wars The department, in co--operation f:rl}?gl;:dt:;(;"ghi\:\a. ' with the Aviation Branch, is con-- Hie revealed that Works Minister | Structing a road into Camp Borden.| Colin Campbell, on leave of absence,| Of the estimated cost of $270,000, | was now representing the Assembly | $105,000 is being taken care of by overseas, with the unit in which he| the Federal Department of Mines. is serving as a lieutenant. David A. In the Department of Labor, ex-- Croil, Mayor of Windsor, member | tra facilitiee have been established for Windsor--Walkerville and a pri--| for taking care of war industry | vate in the Essex Scottish, was | Speed--up, and from the aircraft | daily expecting orders to proceed mechanics class within the depart» | overseas. In addition, some 170 mem.| ment, 200 men will graduate into | | bers of the Civil Service have en--| the air force on April 1. | [ uee 1k Soasie pareremee e | y ; in the * As T"}asl';ggr ::'ho';:c:'a:'r':}h:rc\r"s. clared that, immediately upon the J cly® o t that war between | declaration of war, the Province f | ingls appart;'n'ho Allies was inevi-- | offered all its facilities to the Domin» | , * | g"r:'l:','."\-'h,a" Hepburn said. he en-- l",ion Government, including the air o veorea io chart a course which |{ service "aotively enessot in a type would not only be in the best in--| of work and comprising a personnel terests of the Province, but would || whose epic flights and experiences onl 5 ition || in the face of all difficulties have maintain _ its financial . pos | izati that is hould war break out. \| provided an organization 1NA * With that end in view, he con--| {\ow(t:cuvely supgorling the Domin-- | ublic issues of deben.| ion Government. . ttm::?'crtra':l:z $13,000,000, were bor. | _ 'Two of the departments fost owed solely for refunding. Now | Stinson Reliant aircraft were lent Tork exchange, both spot exchange | to the Dominon s e s smaL and futures, was purchased in sums of eight key P"O'Sd 't:'d ottwt:w:n' * sufficient to meet possible demnds' neers were accepted DY t during the fiscal year. Medical sup-- plies and instruments, "and such | materials as were most likely to be affected in price by the outbreak of war," were also purchased to permit an estimated saving of $550;w)-