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COUNTY COUNCIL AT DECEMBER MEETING
HEARS' FINE REPORTS FROM OFFICERS
(Continued from page Two)
predation was ,expressed of• the work
of the Agricultural Representative in
his efforts in junior farming.
A motion was passed asking the
clerk to write a letter to Reeve Fran-
cis expressing regret in his illness
and hopes for a speedy recovery.
Council resumed. at 2 o'clock and
after the reading of the minutes Mr.
Beattie of Seaforth, spoke at length
regarding a grant to Scott Memorial
.Hospital, Seaforth, but the .acting
warden ruled that the matter would
come up at a later date.
The,,report of the Alexandra Marine
and General. Hospital; Goderich, was
read showing the total receipts of
*15,737.07. The cost of patients per
day is $2.78 and there were 394 pa-
tients treated. A question being asked
regarding the number of indigent pa-
tients in the various hospitals the
Mr. Holman gave the report of the
Old Age Pension Committee: Out of
683 applications, 640 were recom-
mended for pension. Out of this num-
ber 50 are in the House of Refuge
and 20 in the Ontario. Hospital and
House of Providence. Of the $12,000
paid to the 50 inmates of the House
of Refuge, the . County pays 20 per
cent. or $2400 and each inmate $2.00
per month or $24 a -year amounting to
$1200; this leaves $8,400 to be credit-
ed to the inmates toward the main-
tenance •of the County Home. The
amount paid out in the County is
$105,000. Of this amount $52,500 is
assumed by the Dominion, $31,500 .or
30 per cent. by the Province of On-
tario and $21,000 or 20 per cent. by
the county.
Old Age
nutted the
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following figures were given by Mr, ''i •
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That the age limit of those suffer -
Pension Committee • sub-
following recominenda
Holinan: Goderich, 27 patients, at"'..;
tal cost of $1,078.05; Clinton, 3 Pat-
ients, at total cost $191.75; Sick Child-
ren's Hospital, 6 patients, at total cost
*1,004.50; St. Joseph's Hospital, Lon-
don, 2 patients, at total cost $92.75;
lnringham, $1,071.50; Seaforth, 10 pa-
tients, at total cost $677.25.
In discussing the admittance of in-
'digent patients to hospital, •Reeve.
ing total incapacitation with no hope
of recovery as certified by medical
certificate be reduced materially or
to 60 years at most.
That more liberal facilities be af-
forded those to get on the pension
list who have changed their residence
from one province to, another; that
residence in Canada for 20 years be
required instead of in the province
McKibben said he felt that a doctor
could riot always get in touch with
in which application is made so long
the reeve of the municipality. It was
as proper safeguards are taken to pre -
also contended that some committee vent duplication in provinces. We
have had cases . where real hardships
should scrutinize this matter very
:carefully.
The Treasurer announced that the
financial statement for the year will
;be ready next month.
H. IT..Edwards, Superintendent of
the Children's Aid Society, addressed
'the. council' and reported that there
have been imposed by a lack ,of re-
ciprocal arrangement between the
Province of Ontario and other pro-
vinces.
We have considered the resolution
submitted by the County Council
from the county of Stormont and
which was reh,rred to us asking that
.are five children in ::he Shelter which (the Dominion Government be regnc s
were never in better condition than at
present and eulogized the work of I ted to assume the cost of the Old
the matron; Mrs. Oliver. Mr. Ed -
'ward's work outside the. 'Shelter is
Age Pension scheme and expenses
therewith.
• -very extensive and his efforts in bet We approve of the Principle of the
tering the condition of the little un-
fortunates was favorably commented
upon. He asked that the assistance
given by the Lion's Clubs be for-
warded to the organizations in Goder-
adh, Seafortli and Wingham.
Old Age Pensions.
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resolution believing the proposal- to
be more equitable to the several pro-
vinces and less burdensome to the
local taxpayers, who having to sup-
port, House of Refuge, Children's
Shelters, Mothers' Allowances, cost
of indigent and consumptives in hos-
pitals and many other' charities and
any addition to that proposed to •the
present heavy tax bills in the Old Age
Pension scheme, a real hardship and
that all pension schemes should be
borne by the Dominion or province
instituting the same and should never
be paid by direct taxation but should
come out of the general revenue of
the Dominion or Province.
Motions Introduced.
The following motions were intro-
duced:
Moved by Messrs. Henderson and
Goetz that unless indigent patients
are admitted to hospital on the writ-
ten order of the Reeve of the muni-
cipality or some one acting on his
authority, that the 'Council refuse to
pay. the bills and that a copy of This
resolution be sent to the manager of.
each hospital. Carried.
H. A. Hays and J. I. Collins mov-
ed that • the Treasurer on receipt of
Reel Cross Fund front any municipal-
ity, be required to investigate the
same, and have statement regarding
same made for the following meetings
of this Council. This motion was
carried, '
On motion of R. W. 'Thompson and
J, W. Gamble council adjourned to
meet at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday.
Reports of standing committees and
the discussion as to whether the Scott
Memorial Hospital in Seaforth could
be classed as a public one; were im-
portant items of business at the mor-
ning session of bion County Coun-
cil on Thursday. The latter was take
ee up by the county solicitor, R. C.
Hays, Jr., who read a volume of cor-
respondence relating to the same,
The discussion resulted in the fol-
lowing ntotiott by Reeves Henderson
and Turner: That when the Scott
Memorial Hospital is willing to give.
the county an indemnity bond against
any action which may follow that the
grant made in January be paid, and
also a charge for indigent patients,
A letter from G. E. Greenslade ad-
vocating the
d-vocating.the keeping open in winter
the Blue Water Highway was read to
the council and referred to the Good
Roads Commission. „
Mr. Ginn, corn borer inspector,
gave a brief account of the work of
the past season, and said there was
every prospect of the pest being ex-
tertninated.
Provincial Highway: engineer, Mr.
Baas was present and spoke of the
elimination of level crossings, He
said a large fundhad been voted for
this purpose by the Dominion Gov-
ernment from which liberal . grants
had been offered to municipalities ta-
king advantage of same. He thought
counties and other municipalities
should take advantage of these grants:
andmake a survey for this purpose.
He recommended that during the
coining season this be done.
Reports of Committees
The county Property Committee'
reported as follows: We have exam-
ined the jail and there are six pris-
oners at present. We inspected the
Court House and found the repairs
had all been done satisfactorily. We
recommend that a light be put in the
magistrate's office for the vault.
The education committee reported
as follows:'The following High school
payments have been made: Clinton,
$10,572.44; Wingharn, $6,822.53; Sea-
forth, $9,713.68.; Goderich, $9,908,61;
Exeter, $9,287.74.
The following adjoining County
High School accounts have been paid,
Listowel, $1,013.10; St. Marys, $284.-
14; Harriston, $462.32; Stratford $63.-
55;
63:55 London, $579.98; Parkhill, $320.-
52.
The Continuation: schools accounts
have not been received yet; we re-
commend that these be paid.' when re-
ceived and approvedVby the clerk, and
paid in time for the school boards to
close their financial year.
As the cost to the county of pu-
pils attending outside schools is in-
creasing year after year, we recom-
mend that this be discouraged as far
as possible assome of our pupils are
passing our own high andcontinua-
tion schools to go to city schools
where there is a large debenture debt
that we would have to help to pay.
We would recommend that the coun-
ty be not asked to pay the debenture
debt of adjacent schools,
Legislative Committee
'The Legislative Committee report-
ed as follows: Re motion of Bruce
County we do not approve of amend-
ing the Mother's Allowance Act to
give the allowance to the mother of
one child. Re bylaw No. 415 of the
Township of Stephen, we hereby ap-
prove of this bylaw. Re bylaw No.
10 of the Township of Ashfield, we
hereby approve of this bylaw. Re re-
solution from the mayor of Guelph
in connection with provincial highway
and suburban county roads we recom-
mend that this be dealt with in open
council. Carried.
Make Up Deficit,
The report of the Good Roads
Commission was as follows;
During the year the program of
work laid out in June was complet-
ed with the exception of the Gulley
bridge in Goderich township and the
equipment garage and shop. The
equipment garage was not erected as
proposed, as negotiations were car-
ried on with the Town of Goderich
for the purchase of a building, but
without results, and it became too
late to start construction. A few of
the small bridges were built and some
grading was done in addition, as it
was deemed expedient to carry out
that work. The expenditures in gen-
eral were curtailed so that the de-
ficit on the county road account of
about $15,000 would he made up,
which we are pleased to report will
be acconipished. A farther reason for
this curtailment is the hope that next
year the Government will pay a High-
er subsidy towards the work.
The lowered costs of 1930 are part-
ly clue to lowered costs of operating
our department, The cost of hauling
gravel by the Cotinty owned trucks
during 1930 was 7.1c_` per yard per
mile allowing 35 per cent. for deprec-
iation, and the cost of operating pow-
er graders has been greatly reduced,
While in 1930 expenditures have
been low, this should not be used as a
reason for restricting expenditures
next year. On the other hand it is
the opinion of the Commission that,
during this period of low prices and
depression, considerable work on the
roads should be dope, particularly
draining and widening on roads that
can be done by teams and men, and
thus give employment to many who
would otherwise have difficulty in
meeting their obligations. To carry
out public works in time of depres-
sion, at a time when labor is plenti-
ful! and low in cost, arid at -a time
when low prices can ,e hardships, is
no doubt the proper principle for
those in charge' of public expenclitttres
WINGH M ADVwANCE.: Es
to adopt as far as possible, If an ex-
tra amount of such construe;tion be
undertaken, application should be
made for a share of the Unemploy-
ment Fund provided by the Doiniti-
ion and, Provincial Governments,
An outstanding item of the 1930'
work was the results obtained from
surfaoe treatment work, and it is ex-
pected that considerable extension of
tint work will be in order.
Your commission has examined the
road along concession 9 in Turnber-
ry, and we reconunend that this road,
and all roads formerly assumed by
by-law, and not yet approved, be in-
cluded in a new by-law and resub-
mitted to the Department of High-
ways.
We recommend that a by-law be
prepared authorizing `throti,gh'. roads
and "stop signs wittiiri the meaning
of the Highway Traffic Act, when in
The opinion of the Road commission
such stop signs are warranted.
In conclusion we Gael we would not
be doing our duty to the county if
wefailed to avail ourselves of this 'op-
portunity of expressing our apprecia-
tion of the Services rendered us dur-
ing the year by our County Engineer,
T, R. Patterson.
Your committee 1•tas had the oppor-
tunity of visiting many counties in
this province, end through our obser-
vance and exchange of ideas
great pleasure in reporting his
banner. county, Huron, has improved
its highways system under the "High-
way Improvement Act" due to the un-
tiring efforts of our' engineer, until
today the County of Huron can boast
of the best County Road System, in
the Province. Carried.
A lengthy resolution, proposed by
W. J. Henderson and H. A, Keys,
petitioning the Minister of Public
Highways, to give first consideration
to increasing the County Road sub-
sidy, was passed and copies will be
forwarded to other counties in the
province for endorsation.
On motion of Mr. Mole, seconded
by Mr. McKenzie, the following mo-
tion was carried: "That we, the Coun-
ty Council recommend to the Provin-
cial Minister of Health that the Scott.
Memorial Hospital at Seaforth be re-
commended as a public hospital."
Afternoon Session.
Reeve McKibbon occupied the chair
when the afternoon session opened.
The Finance Committee's report was
thoroughly discussed, particularly the
last clause relating to indigent pat-
ients in hospitals. Deputy Reeve
Craigie in answer to ea question why
Goderich hospital had so many, vig-
orously defended the admission of the
numbers given. Goderich had a larg-
er population than the other hospital
centres and the number had been
thoroughly investigated.
Several reports were brought in at
this time.
The House of Refuge committees
report was as follows and was carried.
1. This committee held four meet-
ings during the year at the County
House and found everything in the
best of condition,
2. The work of the manager, ma-
tron and inspector we found very ef-
ficient. The purchase of an electric
ironer is recommended. Wel under-
stand that land, about sixty acres to
the west of the County House is open
for rent and we recommend that the
inspector and manager investigate
and report to the committee at their
first meeting next year.
Financial Committee.
1. That several accounts be paid:
1. Re the local hospital accounts:
We recommend that the accounts for
indigent patients be referred back to
the several municipalities for invest-
igation as to whether they are indi-
gents and paid when satisfactory to
the Warden and Clerk. Carried.
3. Re communication of H. E. Eil-
her, treasurer, 'Township of Stephen,
we recommend that this be paid. Car
ried.
4. Re the account of the township
of Howick in the keep of Mrs. Hab-
erlee we recommend that the county
pay this and that a new agreement
be made. This clause was ainneded
that same agreement has heretofore,
be carried out.
Re account of funeral expenses of
James Johnson, we recommend that
this is a matter for Tuckersmith and
Seaforth. Carried.
That the claim. of Milieu be refer-
red to the whole council. This was
an account for medical attention. This
clause was referred back for fatrther
particulars.
That snb-section 10 of Chapter 73,
S. 0,; 1926, whereby the county may
collect one half of the cost of indi-
gent from the municipality' from
which they were admitted. We re-
commend that the act as laid down
by the statutes be carried out, Car-
ried.
The pay sheet was submitted as
follows: County Roads committee,
$1,074.05; House of Refuge Commit-
tee, $194.20; Pensions Committee,
$1, 376.85; County Property Commit-
tee, $41.80; Children's Shelter coni-
mittce, '$195.20; Agricultural Advis-
ery committee $139,00; 'flays and
e
Means coaatmittee $70.80,
Reeves Goetz and McKenzie moved
that this county :council appreciates
very 3'41.1 ell the worthy leadership of
the Lions Clubs of Goderich and Sea -
forth to aid the underprivileged child-
ren of Huron C9unty, and that we
wish to express to them our .sincere
thanks for the sante. This was car-
ried.
On motion of Robs. Higgins, sec-
onded by A, J. Goldthorpe, the Mo-
ther's Allowance Board for this conn-
ty shall be granted the usual allow-
ance of $145.00 to be divided as fol-
lows: Chairman, $65,00; Secretary,
$35.00; and the other three members
$15.00 each, for their services during
1930, Carried.
T, Ingis and N. Trewartha moved,
that the County Council recommend
the returning as Councillor of War-
den Backer for the year of 1931 as
we consider thewarden of the prev-
ious year to be a benefit to the coun-
ty council owing to his experience,.
and that a copy of this resolution be
sent to the clerk of the Brussels'
Council.
R. H. Thompson and W. Mole
moved that several by-laws having
been read the necessary number of.
times, be passed and ,signed by the
Warden and Clerk and the county
seal attached. Carried.
Warden Honored.
Warden Baeker, who,because of
illness been �
e s _ had unable to preside
throughout the sessions, was called
to the chair by Mr. McKibben, when
a happy change in the proceedings of
the afternoon took place. Mr. Tre-
wartha came forward and on behalf
of the members of the County Coun-
cil and officials, read a fine address
in which Warden B 'er's splendid
in maximum assurance'of
executive ability in the discharge of giving
pro -
his duties was emphasized, also his duction results. Heretofore the most
neverfailing courtesy and enthusiasm. of field root and garden vegetable
A note of regret that he,had suffered
illness and best wishes for himself
and family concluded the address, Mr.
Inglis then presented the Warden
with a cane, gold mounted and suit-
ably inscribed,
In the course of hie expression of
appreciation, Warden 13aeker meet,
lotted the fact that he bad enjoyed
eight years of active service` yin his
own municipality.
The councillors joined in a circle'
and sang Auld Lang Syne and God
Save the King brought the last meet
ing of Huron County Council for 1930
to .a close,
Lowering the Cost
One authority makes the following
suggestions for lowering the cost of
milk production: (1) Eliminate inef-
ficient producers. (2) Raise your own
feed for the herd. Legume roughages
will reduce the need for purchased
concentrates. Raising more legumes
will also increase grain yields. (3)
Provide warm water for the herd in
winter, preferably kept before them
in the stable: A proper water supply
has a greater effect on production
than is commonly realized,
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A sharp increase in the demand for
registered grades of Canadian -grown
seed of roots and vegetables is indi-
cated, particularly in Ontario. Vege-
table growers, gardeners, and farmers
find that the extra cost of high qaul-
ity slight seed is sli in proportion to its
actual superiority. Two factors rrtake
for quality in seed grown in Canada.
These are the inherent advantages of.
careful selection in foundation seed
stock and the iptpe Ptant fact that seed
produced in Canada is acclimated,
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