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qumooooo Day 139 INSURANCE LIFE. FIRE, ACCIDENT. SICKNESS :‘LATE GLASS. AUTOMOBILE . BK’RGLARY. GUARANTEE BONDS SPECIAL RATES TO FARMERS i ON ALL CARS 'iARIFF & NONTARIFF CO’S A. G. Savage RICHMOND HILL SHUR-GAIN FERTILIZERS AND FEEDS Richmond Starter, Grower and Laying Mashes have proven successful for 15 years. Bring seed grain, have it cleaned before the rush. THE MILL PAGE SIX Old Post Office Richmond Hill Phones: Evenings 82W IT IS proposed by the Government of the Province of Ontario to increase the tax on gasoline from six cents to eight cents per gallon. This increase. if made effective, means that the average motOrist, driving ll),000 miles in a year and getting l8 miles to the gallon out of his car will pay over. $10 ad- ditional to the gasoline tax of $33.33 which he is now paying. Figure it out for yourself. From six cents to eight cents a gallon means this: The average car owner is not a rich man. He does not drive a new car. Out of 582,212 passenger car registrations in Ontario in 1938 but 48,561 were new cars. Yet the automobile owner is the most heavily taxed man in the community. In 1936 he was already contributing 30% of the provincial revenue. Here are the figures for 1936 and 1937. the latest official figures from the Government. 1936 1937 1938 The Provincial Revenue was . . . . . . . . . . . . $90,321,896 $99,838,595 The Provincial Taxation on gasoline. . . . T16,049,857 17,614,161 *$13,318,l71 GASGLENE TAXATION Since the'motorist already bears 30% of the taxation burden of the Province, it is manifestly unfair to increase the burden. [n 1936 money collected for highway maintenance was being diverted from this purpose to the extent of $4,000,000. There is not available from oflicial Government sources Expenditure on Roads, Interest and Sinking Fund charges, etc. subsequent to 1936. It is now proposed to secure an additional $6,000,000 from the motorists of the Province through an increase in the gasoline tax from six to eight cents per gallon. While the motorist, as a citizen, has been willing to assist the Government in problems of administration, a limit must be set to the burden imposed upon him. If you, as a car owner, are content to assume the added burden represented by a 2-cent increase in the gasoline tax, there is nothing you need do. Your silence will be interpreted as consent. If you are not content, and wish to place yourself on record to that effect in the only quarter where your objection will carry weight, call at your regular service station, whether it be a B-A station or any other, and ask for a card which has been distributed for your convenience. Just sign it, fill in your address, and leave it with the station attendant. i NEWS AND INFORMATION Poultry entries for 1938 in Record of Performance (R.O.P.) closed No- vember 30. Three hundred and fif- teen breeders entered a total of 38,- 887 birds, an increase of 35 breesers and 6,337 birds on me entries of 1937. The greatest increases are in lQuebec, Ontario and the Prairie Provinces. These increases are con-r sidered to be due largely to two factors: Firstly, to the increased demand- for graded chicks probably due to Departmental advertising; and, sec-1 ondly, to the activity of the variOus» Provincial Departments of Agriculâ€"u ture in arranging to have the Prc~.i vinci‘ally approved flocks headed by‘ Record of Performance (R.O.P.)I lmales. At present there are three- iprovinces whose fl'ocks are 100 per {cent headed by Record of Perform-I lance (R.O.P.) males, and at least ltwo other provinces are rapidly nearâ€"- }‘mg the same achievement. As those. flocks supply the hatcheries in these- proviinces with hatchery eggs, the far-reaching results of this moved ,ment can readily be seen. Indrica: itions are that Record of Perform« 'ance (R.O.P.) and' the National 10,000 miles* per year. . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 miles* per year. . . . . . . . . . . 20,000 miles* per year . . . . . . . . . . . ‘ (18 miles per gallon) Provincial Revenue from the taxation of Motor Vehicles, Ontario, 1936: Paid by the public in Gasoline Taxation. . . . . . . . Paid by the public in Licenses, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . Spent by the Government in Highway Construction and Maintenance: (All Provincial Expenditures)................... Interest and Sinking The Proposed Increase 0f 331/30/0 in Diverted . . . . . . Issued as a service to the Motorists of Ontario by the British American Oil Company Limited ‘ This figure is based upon 11:? percentage increase in gasoline consumption: which percentage figure was obtained from government sources. 1' Cou led with license fees in 1936., this TAX represents 30% of t 6 Provincial Revenue. FOR THE BUSY FARMER Breeding Program in general have made more headway in 1938 than in any year to date. Canada Best Customer Although British Guiana, with an area of 90,000 square miles is situ« ated on the South American contin- ent, it is usually associated commen- ciall-y with the eastern group of the British West Indies. Canada was British Guiana’s best customer in‘ 1937, owing to heavy purchases of sugar and bauxite, a mineral clay‘ used in the manufacture of alum“ inum. At the same time, expm‘tF‘ from Canada to British Guiana in 1937 showed the largest gain in re‘ cent years, reaching a total of $1,- 655,604, as compared with $1,314,â€" 055 in 1936, an increase of $341,549. Food-stuffs, oats, apple-s, potatoes. f10ur, cheese, pickled pork and beef. unmanufactured tobacco, vegetablesv fodder, bran, feeding grains and canned! fruits; were among the Can‘ adian exports of agricultural Origin. Wheat For Palestine One thousand tons of Canadian wheat (Manitoba) and 500 tons (amâ€" Canadian Red Clover All red clover seed imported into Canada is required to be coloured to indicate its origin of productionâ€"â€" from Britain, one per cent yellow; Northern United States, one per cent navy blue; Northern European cOunâ€" tries, one per cent green; and all other countries of origin 10 per cent red. This action has been taken in- the interest of Canadian producers of red clover, as Canadian grown seed| is usually hardi-er, and therefore more suitable under Canadian climatic con- ditions. THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILI‘. ONTAKIO Taxes Now Proposed Proposed (excluding Taxes Increase licgfl) Aflcr Apr. 1. 1939 33%% 49.98 66.66 5414.44 66.66 88.88 $16,049,857 11,144,956 $ 9,419,509 13,630,543 ber durum) are now on their way to Palestine for a miller in Tel-Aviv; In 1937 Canada exported 442 tons of wheat to Palestine. Imports of- Canadian wheat into the Holy Land have varied from 227 tons in 1936» to 71 tons in 1937, and 102 tons in the seven months: of 1938 ended July 31. Imports of wheat and flour into Palestine are governed» by quotas which are fixed every quarter year, the quotas applying to quantities and not to individual countries. $11.11 16.66 29 9-) u._/â€" A total of 2,270,174 bushels of the 1937 crop of Canadian certified seed potatoes were sold in foreign. coun- tries. The amount sold in Canada was 239,089 :bushels. $27,194,813 $23,050,052 $ 4,144,761 Gas Tax per Week per Car $ .85 1.28 1.70 The seeds normally imported in volume into the United States from Canada are alfalfa, red clover, ali- sike and sweet c10ver. Other Can- adian seeds of some importance, with a more or less s'teady outlet, are western rye, Canadian rye, brome, and crested' wheat grasses. The most successful growers of potatoes in many other countries out- side Canada show their appreciation of the value of good seed by paying the additional freight and tariff charges to secure Canadian Certifiedl' Seed Potatoes, in spite of plentiful, local» sup-plies. Over 1,000,000 bushels of Canad- ian certified seed potatoes from the 1938 crop were exported: before De- cember 1, 1938. Totai sales during- the fertilizer year ended June 30, 1938, are esti- mated to amount to 361,657 tons of fertilizer materials and 256,987 toné of mixed fertilizers. Over 1,000,000 bushels of the 1937 crop of Canadian certified seed p0- tatoes were shipped‘ to destinations 6,000 miles away. THURSDAY, MARCH 23rd, 1939. Improvement in Finances of the Ont. Municipalities It is hardly a case of “rags to riches” but the picture of municipal financing in Ontario has undergone a marked change since those dark days of a few years ago when mun- icipalities of this Province were in default to the tune of $101,000,000. Today many of those municipali- ties which were then unable to meet their contractual obligations are able to sell bonds bearing interest at 4% and 4142 C? with a slight premium, in the open market. This proves that the whole basis of municipal credit has been improved to a point where these municipalities are financing on more favourable terms and in much easier fashion than 'in the past. This altered picture is due chiefly to the work of a small group of municipal experts of the Department of Municipal Affairs, a branch of the Ontario Government which came into being only four years agO. When the Department was organized; it found that thirty-five municipalities were in dire financial straits, and the affairs of many of them Were gub- ject to what was then known as Committees of Supervisors. Their own financial structures had‘ col- lapsed and besides failing to meet debenture payments, some of them lwere even unable to care for the needs of their own people and render necessary civic services. “ Thus was born the Department of Municipal Affairs. Each of these 35 municipalities was placed in the hands of a De- partmert official â€" a supervisor â€" who worked with the elected and statutory officials to solve the prob- lem. Under the supervision plan, each municipality‘s budget and tax rate had to be approved by the De- partment of Municipal Affairs, while the Department acted at the same time as a mediator between the de- faulted municipality and the bond- holders. Thus, with the support of the Government of this Province, it was possible to literally haul these municipalities up by their own boot- straps. . Today more than 65 millions of the original 101 millions have been re- funded. Municipal credit has been restored to many Ontario municipal- ities whose borrowing capacity had- been in jeopardy. And the Depart4 ment of Municipal Affairs finds it- self in the somewhat strange posi- tion of having a group of solvent municipalities demanding that they be kept under’ surveillanle. “It is evident,” _says Hon. Eric Cross, Minister of Municipal Af- fairs, “that these municipalities ap- preciate the service the Department has rendered. If this is a true in- dication of the feeling prevailing throughout Ontarioâ€"and there is no reason to doubt that it isâ€"the trend and desire of taxpayers seems to be toward the Government exercising more supervision over municipal tax- ation and borrowing. It had been our intention to remove from super- vision those municipalities Which had been taken out of default with re- financing- plans, but in View of the strong protests of these same mun- icipalities, and other interests, we [have decided to continue the present responsibility of supervision as far as they are concerned.” During the past year, Mr. Cross added, his Department’s h0pe that many municipalities in default would regain their solvencies, has been realized. The general improvement in Ontario’s municipal picture is evi- denced, he said, by a decline in the total municipal debt~of the Province from $494,433,956 in 1933, to $430,- 000,000 in 1937. BALING Hay & Straw Having taken over Moore Bill. baling business I am pre- pared to bale hay and straw on short notice. Price rea- sonable. Latest facility for moving outfit. GLENN'S DRUG STORE EVERY FRIDAY 2 to 5 PM. Successor to Moore Bros. PERCY COBER Phone Stouffville 7313 Gormley RR. 1 EYES EXAMINED â€" AND â€" GLASSES FITTED DR. P. P. SMYTH