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_ Not in Favour of Royal Commission for North The deputation from the Ontario Asâ€" sociated Boards of Trade to present the resolutions passed at the meeting at Oshawa last November did not meet with much encouragement from the members of the Ontario Cabinet interâ€" viewed on Thursday last at Toronto. The deputation was received by Acting Premier Hon. Harry Nixon, Hon. Arthur Roebuck and Hon. David Croll. The deputation from the Ontario Associated Boards of Trade included:â€"W. O Langdon, president of the Northern Ontario Associated Boards of Trade, and the Timmins board of trade; Gerâ€" ald O‘Meara, Kirkland Lake: H. E. Mcâ€" Gill, Cochrane; Geo. W. Lee, North Bay; Thomas Marshall, Gordon West, Evan Gray, F. D. Tolchard, Toronto; E. N. Weber, Kitchener; C. D. Henderâ€" son, Brantford; F. D. Healey, Hugh Dunlop, W. D. Shambroke, G. C. Martin and Russell T. Kelley, Hamilton. From the Northern standpoint the chief item in the resolutions submitted was the request that a royal commisâ€" sion be appointed by the government to investigate and report upon the reâ€" quirements conductive to the maximum and cconomical development of the vast resources of Northern Ontario. The acting premier, Hon. Harry Nixon, did not seem favourable to the royal commission idea. He said that he had seen a great many royal commisâ€" sions appointed during his twenty years of public life but few of them had reâ€" sulted in much good. Mr. Langdon supported the resolution (Continued on Page Eight) Dog Tags for 1937 Now Ready Dog tags for 1937 are now ready for distribution at the Timmins and Disâ€" trict Society‘s office at 111 Spruce street south. Dog owners in asked to coâ€"operate witl paying the tax just as s in order to facilitate ti The society has received an official appointment from the Town of Timâ€" mins to do cullecting of all dog taxes and have arranged to have a man on duty at the society‘s offices all day. Party Held Here for Patient in Toronto RECORD OF 76 RINKS FOR BONSPIEKL Delegation from Ontario Associated Boards of Trade Given Little Encouragement. Case for the North Very Ably Presented by W. O. Langdon, Timmins and Gerald O‘Meara, Kirkland Lake. Timmins Humane Society to do all Dog Tax Collecting This Year. Guests at W. H. Pritchard‘s Home in Timmins Bring F. C. H. Simms to Party by Telephone. The good uses to w may be put are man new one was added phone companies hay to boast of how the t the doctor so quick never yet told about in the hospital in T held in his honour that is just what ha; There was a party at and some of those ed regret that the Simms was unable t i; at present in ho i; at present in hospital "Now, we‘ll just have hin Mr. Pritchard‘s reply. Th smart work on the part of companrnies, and no one happy party more than F. Telephone connection w established between Mr lome and Mtr. Simms‘ liome aAand . Michael‘s hos sang oldâ€"tim toald stories, chatted soci: in his Toront listenmed in 0 tributed to : with some 0 and reparte of the party one for all c to the pleas the guests 1 the guest of CHILD HEALTH CONFERENCE AT sSCHUMACHER ON FEB. 5TH A child health conferenc held in the Schumacher put on Friday, Feb. 5th from 3 Mothers and their babies art invited to attend. The Pioncer Paper of the Porcupine. Established 1912 ht t AP C P «1t t > nmnber did soon as the work 1imnmin ociety in nossible, \.Changes in Two Landmark â€" Build Being Removed. New gine Shed and Shops Satis1tactory. N. iD. Railways here that have stood in the station yards while Timmins grew from a siumpy looking spot in the bush to its present size, will have gGisappeared within a short time. Already the big brown enclosed water tower that has stood in the yards since 1913 is gone, to make way for the enâ€" largement of the track space. Last week workmen tkegan tearing down the locomotive and repair shop that has been in the eastern part of the vyards since about 1912. Tracks to be laid through the place where the water tower was will lead to the new ash pit. Those to be laid where the old locomotive shed is will be for storage of passenger coaches, leaving more trackage free for freight cars. The new locomotive shed imand reâ€" pair shop, with its big turntable, has been in operation for some weeks now ard has proven satisfactory in every way, railway officials say. Six Arrested on â€" Gambling Charges and Two on Liâ€" quor Charges. The Ladies‘ Auxiliary of the Canaâ€" dian Legion will hold a general meetâ€" ing in the Legion hall tonight at 8.30 Any members who wish to donate to the Flood Relief fund, kindly dbring their donations tonight. Raid Early Sunday on Chinese Place A police raid early Sunday morning on a Chinese place on Second avenue, resulted in the arrest of six men who are alleged to have been gambling, conâ€" trary to an Ontario statute. They will appear in police court toâ€"morrow, charged with Sunday gaming.: Two others will appear on liquox" charges, one who is alleged to havei been in illegal possession of liquor, and the other who is said to have been sellâ€" ! Will Accept Donations to Flood Relief Fund 'Ndmmo t P â€"API tA ~P *A Two familiar buildings of the . iD. Railways here that have Published at Timmins, Jnt., Every MONDAY and THURSDA Y Buildings Canada «P P P ~DP L PSA DL PP C «iP PP P DPA WA C L Are To be Good Curling Weather Five Inches of Snow Over the Weekâ€"end, but to be Colder for the Week. "It will continue generally cold, with occasional snow," were the: cheerful words the weatherman had this mornâ€" ing for the curlers, at least. The cold northerly winds will make the temperâ€" ature seem much lower than it really Lions to Present Prizes to H.S. Students Thursday ature seem mutchn lower it realiy i4 he predicted. Snow over the weekâ€"end, from Saturâ€" day morning until this morning totalled @ve inches. Temperatures have been: Thursday max. 24. min. 4 below; Friday max. 10, min. 3 below; Saturday max. 14, min. 3 below; Sunday max. 33, min. 2; last night‘s minimum zero, eight o‘clock this mornin@z zero. Although ‘<the both roads and HOLLINGER DIRECTORS VISITING HERE THIS WEEK The Hollinger directors are in town this week on a visit to the camp and the mine. P Winners of Essay Contest in First Form to be Rewaraded. Denham Greer to Start on Trip to Ottawa on Feb. 7. District Governor to Visit Timmins on Feb. li1ith. First form high school students, winâ€" ners of the Lions Club‘s essay contest on ‘"Remembrance Day and What It Means," will be presented with their prizes at this week‘s meeting of the club,. it was announced at Thursday‘s meeting by Dr. A.C. McKenna, chairâ€" man of the Lions‘ educational comâ€" The essays, result of a contest made possible by the Lions last fall, have now been judged. Denham Greer will set out from Timâ€" mins by dog team for Ottawa on Sunâ€" day, February 7th, if present plans are carried through. The special invitation to the celebration here next summetr is now in preparation and will be taken by Mr. Greer personally to Prime Minâ€" ister Mackenzie King. Tickets for the Lions‘ Winter Froli¢, to be held in the Riverside pavilion on Friday of this week, February 5th, are now available from members of the club. Just a limited number of tickets have been issued. Gordon Archibald‘s orchestra has been chosen for the event which is to be conducted along the same lines as the other popular Lions Club dances that have been held in the past. Funds raised will be used to complete payment for the instruâ€" ments given the Lions Boys‘ Band. On February l1th, District Governor Harry Lambert, of Newmarket, will be TIMMINS, QONTARIO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 1937 weekâ€"end, from Saturâ€" tl this morning totalled present at a joint meeting of the Timâ€" mins and Schumacher Lions Clubs to be held here. He will present member buttons to C. E. Knowlys and Wendell Brewer who have recently joined tne Timmins club. On February 18th, Charles Brown will be the speaker of the day. The last meeting of eath month is deâ€" vcied fo business. _ Ontario Secretary of Legion to be Here To Address Special General Meeting of Legion on Feb. 14th. General secretary of the Ontario provincial command of the Canadian Legion, L. R. Menzies, is to be the chief speaker at a special general meetâ€" ing of the Legion to be held at the Leâ€" gion hall on Sunday, February 14th, at three o‘clock, President Austin Neame announted toâ€"day. Mr. Menzies is now on a tour Oof alli northern branches of the Legion and will pay particular attention to Timâ€" mins as the scene of the convention during the coming summer of the proâ€" vincial command. Donations to be Sent T omorrow Timmins people have been generous in their donation of clothes to help suiferers from the floods in the United Statos. A goodâ€"sized@ shipment is to be made from the Legion to the Red Cross at Cincinnaii, Ohivo, toâ€"morrow. All clothes received un to toâ€"morrow mornâ€" ing will be included in the shipment. Donations may be left at the Mines Rescue Station with Austin Neame, or at the Canadian Legion hall on Cedar street south. Any who want to help flood sufferâ€" ers by donations of money may do so through H. C. Scarth, manager of the local branch of the Imperial Bank. Funds contributed in this manner will be turred over to the American Red Cross society by the Canadian Red Cross. Funds are urgently needed to supply food, clothing and medical care for these who have lost all their possessions in the worst Ohio and Mississippi valâ€" ley floods the United States has ever known. Seven Fire Calls in Three Hours or So Seven fire calls in a little more than three hours kept the Timmins firsmen on the jump last night. High winds and suddenly colder weather made chimney and stove pipe fires frequent. No damage was done in any of the fires, although both a box and a teleâ€" phone call were sent in for one of them. Many in the North feel they are helpirg to repay a debt to the citizens of those fertile valleys, for after the fires that have wiped out towns in the North, large donations of supplies and money have been made from the very towrs that are now inundated. An outâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"ordinary alarm was one turned in Friday morning at 2.52 from 201 Elm street south. A diamond drill shelter, property of the Eyre Diaâ€" mon Drilling company. had caught fire from burning gas. It is believed that a spark from the gasoline engine used to power the drill, started the gasoline burning. Two hundred dollars damage was done to the machine and $75 to the building. The dGrill was being used there as part of the Polaris exploration programme. Firemen were delayed a few minutes in reaching the blaze beâ€" cause the person who rang the alarm failed to remain at the box. Busy Sunday Night for the Timmjins Firemen. Yesterday‘s chimney fires were at 114‘ Kirby avenue,. 83 Rea street north, 114‘ Elm street north, 26 Mountjoy street, 121 Pine street south, 171 Spruce street south and 324 Fifth avenue, rear. fenerous Contributions of Clothing for Flood Vieâ€" tims. Also Cash Gifts. Put blished at Timmins, Ont., Canada, Every MONDAY and THURSDAY the the ind Three Hundred and Four Curlers Entered in Play Optimistic View of Conference Timmins, South Porecupine, Dome, Kapuskasing, Kirkland Lake, Noranda, Siscoe, Englehart, Haileybury, New Liskeard, North Bay and Famous Rankin Rink of Monâ€" treal Here. Bonspiel Away to Auspicious Start. Southern Member of Depuâ€" tation Writes of Meeting with Cabinet. Despatches from the South last week Cid not take a very optimistic view of the results and effect of the deputation of the Ontario Boards of Trade interâ€" viewing the Cabinet on v@rious matters, including some especially effecting the morth. A more optimistic view, howâ€" ever, is taken in a letter from a proâ€" minent member of the deputation whose home is in the South but who has much interest and friendship for the North. He writes in part as folâ€" 10OWwSs:â€"â€" Mr. Ledutc was especially interested in this subject and there is no doubt this subject will receive his special considerâ€" ation. Hon. H. C.â€"Nixon, in summing up the various resolutions, did not give much encouragement to our request for a royal commission to study the problems cef Northern Ontario, but he did say that he greatly appreciated our interest. He also said that Hon. T. B. McQ@uesten, Minister of Highways, had stated that the Government had already given assurance of a very active proâ€" gramme dealing with the question of good rcads in Northern Ontario. The attendance of the men from the North was greatly appreciated. They did a real good job in putting before the CGovernment firstâ€"hard information on matters of paramount interest to your people." "The first resolution dealt with the Development cof Northern Ontario. This was presented by W. O. Langdon, who in a very comprehensive way, pointed out the tremendous wealth being proâ€" duced in Northern Ontario, also the vast purchases being made for machinâ€" ery, supplies and food, and also dealt with the question of taxation,. and the amount received by the municipalities compared with the amount received by Dominion and Provincial Governments. Mr. Gerald O‘Meara, of Kirkland Lake, fcllowed Mr. Langdon. He dealt more especially with tne taxation question and quoted very definite figures dealing with this subject and showing the many services your municipalities had to give t« the miners ard their families. (The whole subject brought forth much deâ€" bate. Mr. McGill, of Cochrane, dealt with the subject, "Development of the Onakawana Coal Fields. These are situated 126 miles north of Cochrane. Mr. Leduc was especially interested in this subject and there is no doubt this subject will receive his special considerâ€" ation. Hon. H. C.â€"Nixon, in summing up the various resolutions, did not give much encouragement to our request for a royal commission to study the problems ef Northern Ontario. but he With nearly three hundred curlers entered in the biggest bonspiel ever held in Northern Ontario, the T. N. O. curling association looked forward this morning to one of its most successful events. Threat of soft weather was dissipated last night as the wind swunrg around from south to west and north to bring zero temperatures. It was a real Scottish start to which the curlers got off this morning. Pipers dow Mayor J. P. Bartleman, at the Timâ€" mins club this morning wished the curlers "a roarin‘" good time. "There is no sport more conductive to good health and real social pleasure," said he. G. 8. Lowe, President of the Timmins club, welcomed the visitors on behalf of the hosts. "I hope this bonspiel will be remembered as one of the most pleasant times in the association‘s bonâ€" spiels," he said. Rinks from Timmins, South Porcuâ€" pine, Dome, Kapuskasing, Kirkland Lake, Noranda, Siscoe, Englehart, Haiâ€" leybury, New Liskeard, North Bay and the famous Rankin rink of Montreal made up the 74 rinks that go into action toâ€"day. H. E. Cawley, of Haileybury, J. M. Rothschild, of Toronto and J. Hazleden, secretary of the Northern Onutario Curlâ€" ing Association, of Sudbury, sent best regards to the curlers by telegram. Mr. (Continued on Page Eight) Air of Festivity A string of coloured lights outside the Timmins club and plenty of decorations inside give the place the air of festiâ€" vity and happiness with which the ‘spiel began toâ€"day. Results of games played this mornins will be found elsewhere in today‘s issue The draw for the George W. Lee trophy, key event in the T. N. O, Curling association bonspiel which beâ€" gan here this morning is: Preliminary Round Widdifield, Timmins, vs Angus, Norâ€" anda. Solomon, Timmins, vs Dunbar, Hailâ€" evbury. Draw and Results Lee Trophy Next year‘s T. N. O. Cur ation bonspiel will be held a Lake, it was decided at t meeting of the association he night when a large numbet attended. stone, Timmins. Rinn, Timmins, vs Liskeard. Father O‘Gorman, Ti New Liskeard. Richardson, Timmi: North Bay. Graham, New Liskea man, Dome. Dr. Stahl., Timmins, Dr. Smith South Porcupine Presjident of Association for 1937. Dr. Smith, South Porcupine, was elected president of the curlers for the coming year; Mr. Ross, North Bay, is viceâ€"president and Watt Thompson, New Liskeard, is secretary. Discussion at the meeting had mainly to do with proposed revision of some rules governing the bonsplel but no imâ€" priant changes were made, Bavy. Drew, Timmins, vs. Sch Dr. Hudson, Timmins, Kee, Kirkland Lake. Todd, Timmins, vs. Liskeard. ‘Sauder, South Porcupi: New Liskeard. Rankin, Mc Noranda. Next Year‘s Bonspie! at Kirkland Lake Irwin, Siscoc (Continued on Smith, Haileyb Timmins. C 1 1 Section 8 Pages First Round 0€e, v5 RidC eal vÂ¥s. Binkley, New Timmil was dissipated swung around north to bring Gcoddard, New Huehnergard riing Associâ€" at Kirkland the annual eld here last ‘r of curlers Three) Andrews, Noranda. Dr. Mcâ€" vÂ¥s Grills Kirkland Wilson North Kinsâ€"