Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1954, p. 10

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Resolutions Seventy-seven resolutions had been received by the Resolutions convener. 6 were found to deal with local issues; 1 was purely‘an area matter; 1 was returned to the area for informal» tion; 4 were tabled; 5 were ttabledc untile tilrile rin meetin to ive time o ge mor â€" :Srmagtion; 15 gweregnot sustained; the follow- ing were sustained, several of them after being amended: A resolution asking the Ontario Department of Education to coâ€"operate with the Ontario Department of Health in furnishing each school teacher with suitable information from the Canadian Mental Health Association. A resolution requesting the Provincial Government and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario to enforce much more rigidly laws relating to the use and abuse of liquor. A resolution asking the Ontario Govern- ment to make a full investigation into the wide spread in prices between producer and consumer in the prices of meat and eggs. A resolution requesting the Dominion Government to ban the sale of sharp pins and glass in the eyes in children’s stuffed toys (in favor of safe substitutes). A resolution asking the Ontario GOVernment to stop the wrapping of bacon in red striped paper which makes the bacon appear leaner than it is. A resolution asking that paint be made available in pint cans. That whereas a wife in many cases invests her inheritance or her own savings in her husband's business, and may have helped as a partner to earn or build up her husband's property, the Canadian Government be reâ€" quested to provide relief from gift taxes and succession duties so that one-half the value of any gift from a husband to his wife be exempt from gift taxes. Resolutions urging the Department of Highâ€" ways to complete the road east of Cochrane to La REiflei Quebec; and to construct a bridge across the Abitibi River to eliminate the danger and inconvenience of the present use of a ferry, by the settlers east of the river in the townships of Brewer, Fox, Kennedy and Pyne. A resolution requesting legislation allowing certain specific remedies now sold only in drug stores to be sold in other stores in rural areas Where there is no drug store within rea- sonable travelling distance. Resolutions asking the Provincial Govern- ment to make allowances for the dental care of children under the Mother’s Allowance Act; and for medicine prescribed by doctors for Old Age Pensioners who have not the funds to buy these medicines. A resolution asking food manufacturers to use some method other than stapling in food packages. A resolution requesting both Provincial and Dominion Governments to work out é plan by which producers of milk for cheese will be paid cost of production plus a res profit, regardless of the export or (1 price of cheese. A resolution requesting that the [II-63mm method of tendering for rural mail routes be changed so as to secure the man best fitted for the job and to assure a proper when, A resolution asking that, since it is ,i,,-fjcu]l for a shopper to tell the quality of 5]“ .R and pillow cases because of the use of ,. ,Ssmg and sometimes of Cellophane wrappi, .' the ‘ manufacturer be required to state th, mead count on a label. Resolutions that the shoulders of 1' rls be widened for the safety of children mung , to school on highways; that public i .idars . be celebrated on their actual anniversa safes instead of on Mondays, so that the sign gm of the date be remembered; that ‘ thing manufacturers use stronger thread i: nen'} " working clothes and better dyes in 'am; overalls; that comic books be more aseh * censored; that the Federal Governn the requested to increase its support to th nter- ‘ national Peace Garden; that the Pl ma] ‘ Government require municipalities to 1' I and put into effect such by-laws as will wit-rt ‘ the aged from exploitation in private. .per- ‘ ated Homes for the Aged; that laws cor hing supplying tobacco and beer to minors l: m. 1y enforced. There were resolutions urging the pi L'UUU of the site of the recently discoverer: dim village at Sheguiandah, and the estab‘. not of a park in this area as an educatin and tourist attraction. And a resolution co. L‘l'Lli- ~ ing the Ontario Department of Highr : in: f launching “good housekeeping” on h. and roads throughout Ontario. One interesting resolution present was , that, in View of the great need of nui'si «1-2-- ice for rural people, the Women’s 11‘ lit-:3 :mnahle ‘WTIE‘SUL- come together in their districts to cons :‘ the ‘ Possibility of establishing a Hon. .ikn ' Service or Home Nursing Service ad; .i 7»: the routine of rural homes; that finar. i ad . be SOlight from all possible sources a that 3 permanent fund be established to c. on the service from year to year. The Board appreciated very much thr aier- ,‘ tainment of the Ontario Governinei .lt a ‘ dinner for board members and the e). isnin ; staff of the Women’s Institute Branch: . 1. its ,‘ courtesy of the Department of High i 1” providing a bus trip along the controller @955 highway from Toronto to Barrie. ' * air it- t i: a t“ It's good to have money and the din that money can buy, but it’s good. [0“- rheck up once in a while and make sure ' haven't lost the things that money 0' l buy.â€"Gcorge Horace Lorimer. t it * * ai- v: * ‘ HOME AND COL'NT'"

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