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a) In bringing dawn to the Legislature
hat_ his second $ud',get since •ho assumed'
be, office as preethiirer of Ontario, -Hon.
to Dr.;Joeeplr, D.,,Monteith annotniced a
eii' balanced Budget and 'a "surplus„of
$859,004 for the fiscal year ending
ore .Oct. 81, 1927, and predicted that,in
spite of probably, lowered concession
duties and finother $3,CO0,400 payme'at
off the Provincial debt, a surplus. of
$177,000' would be available when the
eurrentyfiscal year comes- to a close.
In his•estinfated revenue of $55,790;-
000' for 1928; :Dr, Monteith, inichicles
$.7000,000 as receipts from the On-
tario',Liquor Board nnder•`Government
sale of. liquo'i::,• Expenditure for the
year is placed.at $55,613,000.
The main points brought out were
as follows:
A surplusof $359,000 for 1927, re-
placing a period of deficits.
'The sum of $8,000,000 paid of debt
do 1927.
Lowering of interest charges due to
refunding at favorable rates.
Ordinary revenue highest in history
of Province, $56,306,629; increase of
$5,400,000 direr 1926.
Policy of tax reduction still ad-
heredto with no new imposts.
Relief to taxpayers in 1927, directly
and indirectly, over. 35,000,000.
T. & N. 0. Railway pays $1,800,000
in' interest to Treasury.
Hydro makes ft st payment off' debt,
and pays Treasury $7,848,048 in in-
tercet,
Ontario Savings Offices, and Farm
Loan Boards show substantial sur-
plus.
Net debt $157.0000,000.
Assets exceed liabilities -lay over,
$33,000,000• •
Payment of another. $3,000;000 off'
the debt in 1928.
1928 revenue, including $7,000,000
from Liquor Control Board, estiniated
at '355,790,000; expenditure estimated
at $55,618,000; surplus, $177,000.
Supplementary •' estimates tables
with the introduction. of Provincial
Treasurer Monteith's second 'Budget
total $7,546;154.44.
By departments, the amounts to be
voted are as fellows: Prince Miui^-
ter's, $2,474,975; Legislation, $4,400;
Attorney-(Gt iJ rat's, 819,015; Insux
ince, $4,375; Education, •$2,058,151;
Lands, and Forests, $1.20,000; Mines,
$6,483; Game and Fisheries, $12.495;
Pabtir Works, $1.892,089.31; High-
ways, 84,275; Health, 64?,150; Labor,
$16.8,1(,0; Provincial Treasurer's, 819,-
550; Provincial Ar titor's ,71),600;
Provincial•- Secrete:v.8, $602,326.10;
Agriculture, $120,325; and Misoellan
Eight ,.absents .members -.were
kid Seven -ethers cvui nary wore
Nine uienvrenq'. Ytrticipnted,
neon ensd evening(, iia the debate...OM-
Teeming 7.vith'Russell Nesbitt, itt, Brecon-
dale. There follaued C. A. Rebertsron
(Liberal; North ;iiioil), L. W. Oke
(U F!0:, East Lrmbton), George
Shields (t&nserv:itave Woodbine); P.
W 'Pearson (Literal, Nan'Bh'York), F.
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Skinner (Can'e--catave,-Leedn), E.
Proaix (f oh oral, i'reseott), Dr. Paul
Poisson (Oonservative, North Essex),.
and finally Premier Ferguson. The
Progressives stayed out
lloa;. J. D. Monteith gave notice
that he 'would move the • house iiit'c
committee of supply and committee of
ways and means. M other:. words, the
budget sneeclt will be: delivered. -
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POWERFUL APPARATUS RECORDS iiUUNT FOR ATRME*
The authorities at Ottawa are keeping in constant touch with the progress
of the search now in progress at the, eastern end of Hudson's straits for the
two lost members of the Royal Canadian air force, Flight Officer Lewis and
Flight Sergeant. Terry, who have been-missing„since February 1.7. Up. to to-
day nothing
o-d'ay;nothing has been found that would shed light on their fate. A:.powertth
apparatus' with 'a .world-wide.range:-is maintaining cod mtu¢cation ,wjthr-the
Arctie air bases through W alteharh Bay. At the LEFT above Is Lieut. Lewis
and at the RIGHT, Sergeant Terry. In the CRITRE is seen 1'.' S. Woodron,
the radio operator at Ottawa, -seated at the government's 500 wattshort wave
C.W. transmitter; and mister oscillator power amplifier. He tunes in with the
northern•stations-at ten a.m. and 2 -p.m. each day. Engineer II. E. Wal&.
and operator E. A..Axell are in charge at Wakeham Bay. They pick up mos -
sages from Wottingham, in .one direction and Port Burweil in the other and
relay them to Ottawa. Messages to men stationed is the north from friends
and relatives aro transmittedwithout charge,
Carol Predicts who have refused to accept the au- Farmers Told How
%me, $67,945. ,
EVEN A CO•W,TAKI';N CARE 03'.
,Seventy-five dollars is voted under
Public Highways' estimates to reeon-
pense J. W..Chantbers ofTillsonburg
"for the death of a COW killed by a
3iigli,way traffic. of finer while in the
execution of his duty'." ' •
Additional allowances in accordance
•t"vith the Mothers' Allowance Act fig -
tires in these estimates to the tune of
'$144,000.
Under agriculture $10,000 is asked'
for services, expenses and equipment
in carrying on social research work
with the Empire Marketing Board•
Miscellaneous votes are: Grant to On-
tario 'Division of the Canadian Red''
Cross, $28,495; grant to Ontario
Safety League, $16,000;;' grant to Last
Post Fund, $2,000, and $25,000 for
wolf' bounties.
Canada Unwilling
sa'd to be led by Catholic priests,.
�T thority of the federal government.
'�'hrone is Near Heavy .bombardments from planes
Former Crown Prince Says
He Will Soon Be King
have been frequentlyreported, and
the' rebels have almost dispersed ex-
cept in a few eases wherethey have
formed' small bands and after sur -
Prise -attacks retired to their bases in
the mountains. It Is to dislodge the
mountain nests that the planes. are
being employed, it is annoiineed, and
so effective has been their work that
military officials in this city are pre-
dicting an end• to the •campaign with-
in a short time.• •
One of the planes on being brought
to its' destination suffered a slight
accident, but there were no ,fatalities
and the damage to the machine will
re.
be paired. The planes have a cruis-
ing time limit of about eighthours.
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Smoke nd Night
By Noctovision
1• ince. — riper 'Own
Prince' Carol, of Rumania, is 'being
quoted by friend's here as having do-
clared that within two months he will
be on the Rumanian throne, which he
renounced when he eloped with Magda
Lupeseu. ..
Foreign Minister Titulesee,.of Rv.
mania, a member of the Bratianu
cabinet, which has always maintained
that.every effort will he ntade'tokeep
Carol from returning, is now sunning
himself at Meritone, a few'miles away
from Carol. Carel has been; devoting
himself to the night life of the Riviera.
In reply to rumors that lie could see
Titulesoo, he said.
"Pitulesco would have seem me on
Thursday, but I did not wish to see
him." •
17,805 824.61
15,001,064.36s
'2,804,760.25
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14.5%
EMENT OF
C. BOARDS.
s
03.97-38.5%
35.35-23.2%
34.7'7-26.3%
To Change Policy
Question of Assisted' Pass-
ages for Miners Before
British House
London —The Minister of Agri-
culture announced. in the House of
Commons recently that he would
shortly introduce a bill for the mark-
ing• of 1ntported eggs:: '
Col. L. C. M.; S. Amery .infornted
Capt. V. A. Cazalet (Conservative,
Chippenham).,; that tthe British -Gov-
eniinent would be very', -•glad if, Canada
could .do as Australia. and New Zea-
land are doing, namely, allow assisted
passages to married men with families
desiring to take up work other than
agricultural. Assisted paages to
Canada were lirnited to agricultural
workers. •
Capt. Cazalet referred to mining
development in Ontario and British
Columbia. Col. J. S. Wod'gewocd,
(Labor) asked if the -Governhpnt,
would . make representations to ,the
Canadian. Government on behalf of
•
miners lierd in view of the conditions
of the mining. industry. Col. Amery
said lie did discuss the question with
the. Canadian Government, but they
have not been able to see their way
to Change their policy.,
British and butch Rubber
Combine
The Hague.—A central sale ar'geni-
496.77-28.5 %
the
X5.64-24,0%
stip
,63,46-23.3%
'95.95-,14,6%
address"•to
'ant governor
slatureat 11
'ea weeks of
ii added what
ly Custernary nation between Britishand Dutch rub -
ib -amendment bar Producers as coli teraettien' to an
mdnidment by American rubber pool Is favored gcn-
Gaverrinient 'orally in Dutch rubber circles, the in -
68 to 27-en'a vestigation by the "Telegraph" re=
i the Sinclair weals, TThe plan being agitated calls
object' of old for eo-operation between Dutch pro,
lost upon the ducers and the London Rubber Grow
sen Liberals, ors Associationas preliminary to the
eventual establishment of such an or
up the 27. ganizatipu.
Would Fight Tunney
Phil Scot, British heavyweight
boxer, has arrived -from over (the sea
to seek a match with Gene Tunney.
P1•. nes to Rescue
4 U.S. Air Bombers Aid
Mexico in Driye on
Rebels
To Rid Seed Wheat
Of Smut Infection
Copper -Carbonate, Dusted, on
in Home -Made Apparatus,
Is Called by Experts Best
Protective Against
Losses'
Washington —,• Plant pathologists
and , wheat marketing, specialists are
urging farmers to begin now an•.
energetic seedrtreatni•ent campaign
against smut, a fungous disease that
causes a yearly loss of millions ofdol-
lars:
d. new era In the control of bunt,
the most serious, of what smuts, ,be-
ith the discovery that
gen in 1917 w
copper -carbonates a virulent dust,
would hill seed -borne spores of the
fungus; without affecting germina-
tion of the seed. Simple, home-made
dusting equipmeut usually, consisting
of a barrel in whole the seed can be
y oati, generally
Inventor of Television is used bytreated bindividual rtngfarfs mnowers•. It can
Working on Remark-
' able Experiments
CHANGE WARFARE;_
Lendgn.—After television comes
noctovieion, and it may revolutionize
the science of warfare, according to
James L, Baird, inventor of trans-
Atlantic television. 'Already his ex-
periments have attained, a consider-
able measure of success.
"I have television; well stanted•now
he said, "and paralleInsith nay efforts;
to perfect television I ata trying to
develop a means of seeing objects con-
cealed by darkness or smoke or fog.
PROMISING R17SULTS.
"I have already been able to mom -
Provinces Must
-Provide Relief
For Uneloye
Federal Government Will: Not
Share in Cost of :Assis-
tanee
-PREMIER'S STATEMENT
Mackenzie King Saya Doming
ion Under No Obligation. to Supply Aid'
Ottawa.—In future the Federal
Government does not purpose' co- -,
.
operating with the provinces and
munici ielities'in bearing the:.cost of
unemployment relief. This new de-
parture is announced in 'eorresponci
enco between Hon.. Peter Heenan,
Minister of Labor, and Premior..Fer-
guson, and between Premfor.Bracken,'
Manitoba, and Right Hon. W. L. Mac-
kenzie Bing.
On January 20 Premier Ferguson
wrote tion, Peter 'I-Ieenan, that the
Township of l7toiiicoke and other
municipalities had asked for contra•
butiens toward the excess . cost 'DP
work undertaken to relieve unemploy
nient. Ile asked if it was the inteu•
tien-of the Federal Government to, co
Operate as foraterly in this cost, the
province, municipality and Federal
Government each paying:, one-third:
Hon. Peter :Heenan replied that at
the Dominion -Provincial conference,
the provincial representatives, except•
from' Manitoba, had taken the position
that they did not wish the Dominion
Government to contribute, to this, or
any scheme which was not within the
jurisdiction of the Dominion. He also'
notes, "prose dispatches say you have
already notified niunicipalitiee that
this was an obligation on the menial -
panties and that the contributions in
previous' years was only because of
the great (Ustress'duo to the general
Chaotic upheaval after the war. •
Due to Immigration.
Jamaica Announces' Revenue
Surplus
Kingston, Jamaica:—The. Legisla-
tive Council, opening its annualses-
sion recently, wad asked by Governor
Stubbs to approve the Government's
guarantee of a loan of $1,000,000, to
assist in the purchase of ships with
a view to furthering co-operative mar-
keting of bananas in England. It is
believed, the Governor said, that the
scheme will insure better prices than,
now obtained for the Jamaica pro-
duct.
A surplue - In revenue 05 $1,250,000
during the past fiscal' year was also
announced by the Governor.
Sir Austen C h amberlatn says that
war. between England and America
is- unthinkable; all of :which may be
true, but then . both ' Engiiind and
America have some : of the -greatest
unthinkers the world has ever known,
-New York Evening Post.
be used any time in the gear, since"
treated send may be stored without
injury.
Necessity for concerted seed treat-
ment has increased, pathologists ex-
plain, because of the great spread of
smut- through the states east of the
Rocky Mountains, thence generally
over the entire country. Smut has
been a problem for a number of years
in the. Pacific Northwest. '
Since copper is mildly poisonous,
those using the dust are warned to
worlc in a well ventilated place and
:to Weer a mask over th•B_iuouth and
node..: Treated wheat should., not be
used for food or feeding" purposes.
Discounts for smutty wheat range
front a few eenite to.25 cents a bushel
at the markets. A study of published
plash this by flooding a loom with in- ear -lot sales records in Kansas City
during the early' marketing period of
visible light—that is, light from tvhieh c 1926 showed losses totalling $122,700
the rays visible to the naked eye have in August.
been filtered out: Also, by. using a
liearchlight throwing out these in-
visible rays. I have been. able to see Belgium Seeks Canadian
objects in the dark several hundred 'Trade
yards away. Brussels: -A Belgian consular agent
"I have reason to believe' that I am has been sent to explore the Possibili
on the verge of -some important die- ties for increased trade with Canada,
coveries-in nod/evasion If my,expec Foreign Minister Paul-Hymans an
tations are realized, we will have in- pounced in the Senate.'
visible searchliglitsscanning the night Discussing' economic expansion, M.
skies for 'enemy aircraft, and sweep- ITymans said that interesting pros-
ing the sews for enemy battleships:" peots for commerce with Canada were
Srrmiarly, he said, all the efforts opening hp. Belgium intended to es -
that army services of the world are to list. new agencies in the United
States and was disposed to increase
her representation in, Colombia, Bra-
zil and Ageutina. A legation would•
be established in Venezuela.
Mexico City—Tho four Douglas now devoting towards perfecting ap-
bombing planes purchased in the trni- paratus for laying down smoke
ted States. by the Mexican govern- screens over battleships or in front of
moat, originally intended to be used advancing troops would be useless,be-
ta the Yaqui Indian campaign :but cause noctovision would enable pos,
which. were ,delayed.because of, the sessors of the instrunlent to see whet
id was going ns embargoatNogales, Ariz., g •ivg ori behind the smoke screens
an
,of]l-cially' entered Mexican army ser-
vice against rebels. in the States of
Jalisco and Colima,•
The plane were flown from Nogales
to the center 'of military operations
against the rebels in Guadelajara, vision should enable the chip captains
State of Jalisco, -where they were tun- to' sea through fog, and also groat dis-
ed up and equipped with-wea:ons and tames at night, when ordinary search
arc now regu)llrly operating out of the lights are impracticable on. account` of
.base., The insurgents in pert are their blinding glare."
In his communication to the Federal
Prime' Minister, Premier Bracken of
Manitoba declares' there is consider-
able unemployment in Manitoba, and
mainly due to immigration. As the
Federal Government controls imnii-
graben he asks that they -assist in
solving the unemployment situation
due to this cause.
In his reply, Premier King points
outthat. the Maritime Provinces.re-
ceive- no immigration, and 'naturally
would object to paying for unemploy-
ment of immigrants in other pro-
vinces. He also point to the position
taken by all the provinces;' but Mani-
toba, at the Dominion -Provincial con.
Notice andcontends that there is no
more obligation- on the Federal Gov,
ernment to give grants' to soave the
unemployment problem than to as-
set the provinces in any other way.
According to a medical theory, dark
•patches under the eyes .'may, be duo
as clearly as though they did not'exisa •.to defective teeth. In domestic 'eh, -
AID TO NAVIGATION. cles they may also be 6118 to a faulty
I'Bvt there is a: more intmediate'"and alibi. Punch:
practical use of 'nocbovision," Baird '
said This is en steamships.—
Nocto- Ono of:tio interesting speculations
. "
in connection with the a$tomebil8
outlook for the year is what ;mires:
sive new words they will be able to
think • of that mean second lsanri.--'
Ohio State Journal.
he two U.F.0.
A Dog Team On the "Mush" .,
m„o.,wira.+A
WERE tAVORITES, BU -1 DIDN'T WIN
participating before admiring crowds' in the great clog derby- at. the .Q‘QuebecL. SePPard and Itis huskies p 1 apating
Winter -Carnival
Out Classed All Opponents
TORONTO GRADS AT ST. MORTIZ
Canada's great hockey team in action in Switzerland where` it won the
world's honors from all nations without having a goal scored'against 3t. ; ' J
"Flying lronclads"
Reach Singapore;
10,000 -Mile Trip
Four Royal Air Force Air-
planes Complete Long
Flight
ALL -METAL CRAFT
London. -Great Britain's "flying
ironelads," otherwise the four Royal
Air Force metal flying boats, arrived
recently at Singapore, thus complet-
ing a
omplet-ing.a flight of 10,000 miles and the
first of its kind ever attempted in the and the Sudan are taking part.
history of aviation. - The newspaper E1 Ahram, which re
It is pointed out that this is the
greatest "showing the flag" flight 'yet
accomplished, and the fact that it was
Anglo-Egyptian
Negotiations
Nearing Crux
Treaty Provides Egyptian Aid
to Great Britain in Event
of War—Sirdar to
Be Native
Cairo, Egypt --The Anglo-Egyptian
negotiations appear to be nearing the
crux. Protracted party meetings. are
being held and there are frequent con-
ferences of party leaders in which.
Premier, Sarwat Pasha and Lord
Lloyd, High Commissioner for: Egypt
unmarred by a)sing•Ie mishap proves
that British rezeareh and •British con-
siruation ard _unsurPaased.
All metal flying craft, it is now' be -
'Raved, are entirely suitable for avia-
tion. in the
viation•in•the tropics.7,a`question ],inner-
to the subject of dispute between ex-
perts and thus satisfactorily settled'"
POWER ENHANCED.'
British air power throughout the
eastern world has been enormously en-
hanced as a result of the cruise' of the
Royal Air Force flying boats, as their
successful flight has proved that Bri-
tain leads the world' in this el -ass of
fighting craft.
The air cruisers, whose bane is at
Singapore, shortly intend to resunne
their trip toward A.usstralia, from
whence they will return via Singapore,
thus completing an Empire flight of
28,000 miles—the greatest ever under-
taken -
Another indication of British su-
pren2acy in the air is shown ill tate
announcement, that in the next
Schneider Cup races Britain's repre-
sentatives expect to achieve a speed
of 320 miles•an Itou'r, In this connec-
tion
oin ec-tion experts are agreed that at the
present rate of •speed , development,
Britain will soon be a'blo ixr produce
machines dapable of traveling at a
rate•. of 380 rules an hour—the only
drawback to such a stupendous speed.
being that it is impossible to turn
sharply in the air, because an, airman,
owing to centrifugal force, is likely
to become momentarily unconscious.
This danger, however, is not to be
feared when {lto flight is straight.
gently published what fit claimed were
the principal points in the draft treaty
between Great Britain and Egypt,
printed a summary which seems to he
the :most accurate refleotion- of the
conversations' hitherto, published
connection , with the negotiations.
The newspaper declares that the pro-
Posed treaty will' be effective for 10.
years, -during which period questions -
not, previously agreed upon will be
suhmitted to the :League of Nations, '
Other clauslos in the drah treaty
modify the. present British super-
vision of Egyptian internal affairs, Di
Ahram says'
Egypt Would Aid In War
In the event of a declaration of war
against Great Britain, a-cebrding to
draft treaty, E1 Ahram days, Egypt
would help Great Britain in Egyptian
territory.' The treaty •also provided
that Great Britain sia•li support
Egyptian entry into .the' League of
Nations immediately the treaty is
signed,
It is understood that Sir Aust0T -
Chamberlain, British Foreign Secre-
tary, leas' informed Premier Sarwat
Paella .that •:if • the present converse:-
titans
onversetions ,between. British find Egyptian,
representatives do' net result in an
agreement:between the two. countries
Great Britain will ,leave a froe hand-
-with 'regard to the, four reserved
Points mentioned by El Ahram. These•'
aro: The, 'aerodrome, is to remain in,
British hands like other means of•
communications, '• Great . Britain is to;.
,00ntil)tie to supervise Egypt'e• external
affairs and Egypt , to conclude'
foreign Treaties only with British tont
sent, and, the slyda)' or commanderdni
chief is to be an Egyptian officer ilk
stead of British,