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Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1910, No.39-43
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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h. It costsbut a very small sum of money, and you merely have to pay your own board.Prof. Day is one of the instructors there, and he certainly is a very ableone on live stock. The Chairman : I feel sure that I voice the sentiments of every onepresent when I convey to Professor Day your very heartj thanks for thesplendid address which he has given us this evening. The subjects dealt withby him were very interesting and instructive. I therefore, take pleasurein conveying to Prof. Day the thanks of this Convention for the excellentmanner in which he has addressed us. THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT GRANT. By Dr. Wm. McGuire, Waterford. I am not going to take up very much time this evening. The questionI have before me was taken up pretty fully last year by Mr. Boughner, andI am sorry he is not here to-night. The title of my subject on the pro-gramme is: Is the Present Method of Distributing the Government GrantSatisfactory, and should it be increased? If I were to answer that I would
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(41) 42 THE REPORT OF No. 43 answer in the affirmative. Xow, in what way would you use the increasedgrant? Some portion of it, if not all, should be used bj giving a grant toevery Society the owns its own grounds and buildings. Mr. Boughnershowed you last year that we were getting ;70,000 from the Government,and that 95 per cent, of that was given to the exhibitions throughout theProvince. Now, a society that is giving, we will say, ;800 in prize moneygets an equal grant with another society giving a similar amount, andthe one owns their own property and the other owns not a dollars worth.Take, for instance, the Norfolk County Society in the town of Simcoe, whichhas some ;16,000 invested in buildings and property. The interest on thatat five per cent.—1800 a year—is larger that the average township fairgives for its entire prize list. They do not get one cent from the Governmentgrant on that large investment. Take our own Fair in the Township ofTownsend, one of the banner township

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