The Medical Officer of this Regiment is Hon. Lt. Col. M. A. Currie, appointed December 14, 1904.

The Chaplain of this Regiment is Hon. Lt.-Col. the Rev. W. J. Armitage, appointed April 16, 1913, whose services, owing to the Regiment's isolation, are required.

The Commanding Officer of this Battalion is Lt. Col. H. L. Chipman, appointed 3rd May, 1910. This officer, however, is not at present in active command of the 66th Princess Louise Fusiliers, as he was seconded to command the Composite Battalion stationed at Wellington Barracks, Halifax, on the 9th August, 1915.

3 and 4. The pay of Lt.-Col. A. King and Lt. Col. H. L. Chipman, when on active service, is $5 per diem, with subsistence allowance of $1.50 per diem, and field allowance of $1.25 per diem, and that of temporary Lt.-Col. R. B. Simmonds (who draws Major's pay) is $4 per diem, with field allowance of $1 per diem and subsistence allowance of $1.50 per diem. These three officers give their whole time to their military duties.

The pay of Hon. Lt.-Col. M. A. Currie, Medical Officer, when on active service, is $4 per diem, with $1 per diem field allowance and $1.50 per diem subsistence allowance. This officer gives six hours a day to military duty.

The pay of Hon. Lt.-Col. the Rev. W. J. Armitage, when on active service, is $5 per diem, with no allowances. This officer also performs certain duties as rector of St. Paul's Church, Halifax.

ENGLISH AND FRENCH-SPEAKING MAIL

CLERKS.

Mr. EDWARDS:

1. Is it correct, as reported at a convention of mail clerks, that when from twenty-five to thirty of these English-speaking clerks in Ontario enlisted, their places in the province of Ontario to as far west as Sarnia were filled by able-bodied French Canadians?

2. Could returned soldiers not have been obtained to fill the vacancies caused by the enlistment of those English-speaking clerks?

Mr. DOHERTY:

1. No. Only one French Canadian employed in Ontario to replace mail clerks who enlisted, and he had been discharged as medically unfit.

2. Returned soldiers were obtained in every case where it was possible to get them.

LIEUTENANT JOHN D. MCNEILL. Mr. CARROLL:

1. Has Lieutenant John D. McNeill, of the 25th Battalion, C.E.F., formerly of Whitney Pier, Sydney, been promoted to the rank of captain?

2. If so, when?

1. Has Mr. Payne been commissioned to make an inquiry in the matter of the officers of the 167th Battalion?

2. If so, how long is it since he was so commissioned to make this inquiry?

3. What is his salary, and what is his profession?

Sir EDWARD KEMP:

1 and 2. No. Mr. Payne was employed to assist the Deputy Inspector General in his inquiry.

3. Mr. Payne is a hand-writing expert, and, on the advice of the Department of Justice, his services were loaned by the Post Office Department on the 29th of June, last. This department has no official knowledge as to his salary. He is a civil servant employed in the Post Office Department. Mr. DELISLE:

1. Have Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. Langton and Major Deaken been commissioned this year to make an inquiry at Quebec in the matter of the 167th Battalion?

2. If so, has the said inquiry taken place, and have the officers of the said battalion been heard?

3. At whose request had the said inquiry been granted?

4. What has been the result of this inquiry? Sir EDWARD KEMP:

1, 2, 3 and 4. An investigation into the affairs of the 167th Battalion was applied for by the Officer Commanding, and also by the Pay Department Branch of the Inspector General. As the investigation concerned matters of pay, canteen and regimental funds, it was not necessary to go to the expense of holding a court of inquiry, as there are officers specially appointed at militia headquarters for this purpose, and an investigation was made by Colonel Langton, deputy inspector general, at the beginning of this year.

This investigation disclosed grave irregularities. The matter was, accordingly, re

ferred to the Department of Justice, in order that it might take the necessary action.

QUESTIONS PASSED AS ORDERS FOR RETURNS.

Mr. DELISLE:

1. How many Government employees from the county of Dorchester have been given employment since 1916, to date?

2. What are their names, the nature of their employment, and their respective salaries? 3. Has the Government raised the salaries of any of its employees from the county of Dorchester since the month of December, 1916? 4. If so, what are the names and the amount of their respective increases?

Mr. DELISLE:

1. How many post offices have been opened in the County of Dorchester since December, 1916, and what are the names and salaries of the Postmasters?

2 Has the Government given new contracts for the carrying of mails in the county of Dorchester since the month of December, 1916? 3. If so, to whom, and for what amount?

Mr. HUGHES (Kings):

1. What are the names and addresses of the medical men now employed or who have been employed by the Government or the Militia Department in Prince Edward Island since August, 1914, to August, 1917, in connection with recruiting or any other military work?

2. What pay or allowance is received by each of these medical men, per day, per month or per year, and what is paid to them for each recruit examined?

3. What is the total amount received by each of these medical men since the beginning of the war to the 1st of August, 1917, both in salary and for examination of recruits?

RELEASE OF THOMAS KELLY.

Mr. LEMIEUX:

For a copy of all letters, telegrams, petitions and other documents addressed to the Minister of Justice concerning the release from penitentiary of Thomas Kelly, contractor of Winnipeg, sentenced by Judge Prendergast to two and a half years in the penitentiary for obtaining money, approximating $1,000,000, in connection with the construction of the Manitoba Parliament Buildings.

Mr. SPEAKER: The mover of this motion proposes an amendment, which I should like to submit to the Minister of Justice. It is proposed to add after the word "justice" in the second line, the following:

Which, in the judgment of the minister, in conformity with the usual practice in such cases may properly be brought down.

Amendment agreed to.

Sir ROBERT BORDEN: I move that all the words after the word "penitentiary" in

the fourth line of the motion be struck out. They add nothing to the information asked for.

Amendment agreed to.

Motion as amended agreed to.

UNOPPOSED MOTIONS FOR PAPERS.

Mr. Kyte-For a return showing the names and addresses of recruiting officers employed in the province of Nova Scotia since August 4, 1914, with the respective amounts of pay per day. And showing the total amount received by each of said officers on account of such pay and the respective amounts received by each for expenses and outlay.

Mr. A. K. Maclean-For a return showing the names of all the officers of the R.C.N., or R.N., employed at H.M.C. dockyard and on H.M.C. Niobe, and in the Naval Service at Halifax. Also a list of the names of captains and officers employed in patrol service, showing the salaries and nature of employment, respectively.

Mr. Macdonald-For a copy of all letters, papers, telegrams and all other documents relative to the application of the Souris Packing Company of Charlottetown, P.E.I., for storage facilities for a quantity of hams and bacon in order to save it from destruction?

Mr. Fortier-For a detailed statement of the amount paid Colonel Rev. Dr. A. E. Burke since his appointment as a chaplain, including items for travelling and hotel expenses.

PRIVILEGE-HON. MR. PUGSLEY. On the Orders of the Day:

Hon. WILLIAM PUGSLEY (St. John City): Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of privilege. On August 31 I made some remarks in the House in regard to the distress caused by the high cost of living. I have noticed in several newspapers the statement that I said that a great many people had been thrown out of employment. I do not know how the statement came to be made, because I made no reference whatever to people being thrown out of employment, nor did I intend to make any such suggestion. My remarks were directed to the hardship caused by the high cost of living.

SALES OF FLOUR BETWEEN CANADA AND UNITED STATES.

On the Orders of the Day:

Hon. FRANK OLIVER (Edmonton): I desire to direct the attention of the Government to a report appearing in The Modern Miller, of St. Louis, U.S.A. The report

says:

Canada officially, by legislation, removed the duty on both wheat and flour some months ago, which automatically removed the United States duties against Canadian wheat and flour under

our last Tariff Act. Then the Canadian food controller prohibited wheat exports and this left flour officially free to enter the United States from Canada. Canadian millers were not slow to act and a large amount of flour was shipped from Canadian mills to eastern markets. This resulted in the United States Millers' Committee suggesting to W. J. Hanna, Canadian food controller, that they were prepared to recommend to United States millers an agreement to be effected with Canadian millers prohibiting sales of flour between the two countries during the period of the war. In response Mr. Hanna advised he is entirely in sympathy and it is to be assumed that satisfactory arrangements will be made.

I desire to ask the Government whether such arrangements have been made.

Sir ROBERT BORDEN: No such arrangements have been made. I was not aware that any such proposal had been made to the food controller as that which the hon. gentleman has mentioned. The statement

set forth in this news item comes to me for the first time to-day.

REMOVAL OF DUTY UPON POTATOES PROPOSED.

On the Orders of the Day:

Mr. F. B. CARVELL (Carleton): The Government by Order in Council have given wheat and wheat products free entry into the United States, but they have not carried out that principle with regard to potatoes, which, under the United States tariff, are in the same category as wheat and wheat products. There is an enormous crop of potatoes in central Canada, where our principal market is, and I would ask the Government to take into consideration, as a war measure, the advisability of placing potatoes on the free list in order that we may have the advantage of selling our potatoes in the United States markets.

Sir ROBERT BORDEN: We will give our best consideration to what the hon. gentleman has suggested. If there should be any announcement, it will be made in due

course.

ATLANTIC PATROL SERVICE.

On the Orders of the Day:

Mr. A. K. MACLEAN (Halifax): I desire to ask the Minister of Naval Service (Hon. J. D. Hazen) whether the patrol service at Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia, is a Canadian or an Imperial establishment? If it is a Canadian establishment, to what extent is it to be developed and enlarged?

Hon. J. D. HAZEN (Minister of Naval Service): It may be correctly said that the service is partly Canadian and party Im

perial. There is a section of the patrol service which is under the control of Imperial officers; another is under the control of the Canadian Naval Department. In respect of certain parts of the service, it might be said that there is mixed control. BACON AND LARD PURCHASES IN CANADA.

On the Orders of the Day:

Hon. FRANK OLIVER (Edmonton): On Saturday I directed the attention of the Government to a report in regard to the cessation of the purchase of bacon by the British Government. In the absence of the Minister of Trade and Commerce (Sir George Foster) the Minister of Finance (Sir Thomas White) said that possibly the Minister of Trade and Commerce would be able to give an answer at a later date.

Sir ROBERT BORDEN: We are in communication with the British Government, through the Acting High Commissioner, on this question. Pending the receipt of a reply, there is no announcement to be made.

PRIVILEGE-HON. MR. HAZEN.

On the Orders of the Day:

Hon. J. D. HAZEN (Minister of M rine and Fisheries): I should like to correct a statement which was made in the Committee of the House by my hon. colleague from St. John (Mr. Pugsley) on Saturday. The subject under discussion was the appointment of Mr. M. G. Teed as counsel for Sir Ezekiel McLeod in the McLeod-Tellier investigation. I quote from page 5569 of Hansard:

Mr. Crothers: Who employed him?

Mr. Pugsley: I have no doubt the Minister of Marine and Fisheries (Mr. Hazen) suggested his appointment.

On the following page, 5570, the report reads:

Mr. Meighen: The hon. member for Carleton (Mr. Carvell) said that he was appointed by Chief Justice McLeod, and he was right. Why would Chief Justice McLeod appoint him if he thought he was favourable to this Government? Mr. Pugsley: I have no doubt he was recommended by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries.

I simply rise to say that I neither suggested nor recommended Mr. Teed's appointment to Chief Justice McLeod, to any member of the Government, or to any one else. I know of my own personal knowledge that the suggestion for his appointment came from the Chief Justice, Sir Ezekiel McLeod himself.

SUPPLY BILL-THIRD READING.

On motion of Sir Thomas White (Minister of Finance), Bill No. 128, for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the public service for the financial year ending the 31st March, 1918, was read the second time, considered in committee, reported, read the third time, and passed. GAME IN NORTHWEST TERRITORIES.

Hon. W. J. ROCHE (Minister of Interior) moved concurrence in certain amendments made by the Senate to Bill No. 100, respecting game in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

Sir WILFRID LAURIER: This Bill is very technical. I suppose the amendments have been made for a purpose. Are they satisfactory to the minister?

Mr. ROCHE: Yes.

Sir WILFRID LAURIER: The only important change is the amendment in section 4 changing the close season for the hunting and killing of moose, deer and mountain goats. I presume my hon. friend has looked into the matter and is satisfied that the period suggested is preferable to the one contained in the Bill as it passed this House.

Mr. ROCHE: The officials of my department assure me that it is all right.

Mr. OLIVER: Would the minister state shortly the effect of this amendment?

Mr. ROCHE: The difference made by the amendment is this: in our paragraph (a) of section 4, we have the following arrangements for the close season: moose, caribou, deer, mountain sheep and mountain goats between the 1st day of April and the 15th day of July and between the 1st day of October and the 1st day of December. The Senate have amended that so that the close season is:

Moose, deer, and mountain goat between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of September. That is, they are extending the time from the 15th of July to the 1st of September. As regards caribou and mountain sheep, they are adding to the close season already provided for in the Bill, the period from the 1st of April to the 1st of August. Amendments concurred in.

SUPPLY.

The House in Committee of Supply, Mr. Rainville in the Chair.

Trade and Commerce-Imperial Year Book of Canada, $4,000.

Mr. MURPHY: Will the minister explain what this publication is?

Sir GEORGE FOSTER: This publication, which is now in its third edition, is called The Imperial Year Book because it publishes statistics of the whole Empire. If my hon. friend has seen either of the two previous editions he will appreciate the completeness and scope of the work. The third edition, a book of about six hundred pages, is now in the press and will soon be ready for distribution. I have seen a good many of these year books, but this is one of the fullest and most complete of which I have knowledge. In all, 7,500 copies are to be issued. Of these, we issue 2,500 copies under our own direction, and the others are issued under the advisement of the Government; that is, a list is submitted to the Government for its approval.

Mr. MURPHY: Did we purchase copies of the previous issues?

Sir GEORGE FOSTER: Yes.

Mr. MURPHY: Who publishes it?

Sir GEORGE FOSTER: The author of it is in Montreal. The soul and body of the work is Mr. Southall. The book has been very highly commended, and I have received numerous requests that we should help it through this war year, which, of course, is a pretty difficult year. A number of copies will be sent to our consuls and trade commissioners for distribution to such bodies as they see fit. Boards of trade, chambers of commerce, libraries and similar institutions, both in the Englishspeaking world and outside, but mainly in the English-speaking world, will receive copies of the book. Altogether, I think this is an appropriation which will be exceedingly useful in its results.

Sir WILFRID LAURIER: I must confess that I am ignorant of this book. I do not know whether a copy has ever reached me. Is it a book of statistics on the British Empire?

Sir GEORGE FOSTER: Purely statistical from beginning to end.

Sir WILFRID LAURIER: Relating to trade navigation and commerce, etc.? Sir GEORGE FOSTER: Yes. It touches every department of administrative work.

our

Mr. MURPHY: Is it printed at the Printing Bureau?

Sir GEORGE FOSTER: No, it is not a government work. We are simply buying copies.

Bureau of Industrial and Scientific ResearchSalaries and expenses, including printing and stationery, and the collection and distribution of information, $43,600.

Sir WILFRID LAURIER: "Salaries and expenses, including printing and stationery," is a very elastic term.

Sir GEORGE FOSTER: It has to be elastic. My hon. friend understands the organization of the advisory council. It consists of eleven members, who, with one exception, are all giving their services gratis. The administrative commissioner, Professor MacCallum, receives a salary of $10,000. This item of $43,600 is for the travelling expenses of the council, and expenses incurred in gathering information and making their investigations. As regards studentships, we are following the plan which has been adopted by the advisory council in Great Britain and elsewhere. The idea is to get hold of those students who are just about ready to leave the university, and who have proved themselves during a collegiate or scientific course of any kind to be particularly adapted for investigation along a certain line. The studentship is $600 for the first year, and $750 for the second year if a second year is added.

Mr. MURPHY: Is that to maintain them at the university?

Sir GEORGE FOSTER: I will explain it. In order to get a studentship these young men must continue their investigations along a line which must be approved by the advisory council. Full inquiry is made into the student's antecedents, the work he has done, and his ability in the particular line of inquiry in which he is engaged.

If that is a line of inquiry which commends itself to the advisory council as likely to prove useful and advantageous in connection with the industries of the country, they may approve of such an one for a studentship. The university gives him the run of the university during the year of his studentship; that is, he has the advantage of the laboratory and whatever is necessary in his investigation. That is the contribution on the part of the university toward that year's work, and the studentship of $600 is granted to induce him to carry on his investigation for the year. If, at the end of that year, after thorough examination and supervision by the advisory council, it is found that he has made much pro

gress in that line of his work that it promises to yield beneficial results for practical purposes in the industry to which it is allied, a second year scholarship may be given under the same conditions and carried out in much the same way, except that it is not necessary for this second year's work to be carried on all the while in the university; the student may be transferred to a large industrial concern where he can carry on his investigations in connection with the actual work of the industry itself. In the United States and Great Britain it is considered to be an essential part of the work of the student that a certain amount of time should be devoted to this work in the atmosphere and amidst the practical surroundings of the industry to which his investigation is allied. Α student or a fellow has to promise that he will devote his work and his ability to our own country. It is a rather pitiful comment that nine-tenths of possibly the brightest scientific students who have been

developed in our country have gone to other countries to carry out the practical results of their work, many of them to the United States. There are students who have thus gone out from our colleges who to-day, in the United States, are drawing salaries of anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000. That is the talent we need to keep in our own country, SO far as possible; it is the kind of talent which is now, more than ever before, absolutely necessary to the development of our industries on the lines of competition, with the saving and resulting effects that come from the application of close scientific knowledge to the industry itself. As an example of the kind of investigation contemplated, one of these aids is to be bestowed on an investigation now going on in the University of Saskatchewan as to the possibility of utilizing straw for the purpose of making gas. As a by product of the making of gas out of straw there is quite a large percentage of valuable oil. These investigations have been going on under one of the professors in the Saskatchewan University, and one of our aids will be given to assist in bringing that, if possible, to an ultimate and successful conclusion, so that the vast quantities of straw now mostly wasted in the West (although part of it is eaten by young cattle) may be utilized in heating and lighting and producing motive power for the people on the prairies.

Mr. PUGSLEY: When was the bureau established?