Mr. PERLEY asked:

What are the amounts and dates of the loans falling due prior to December 31, 1913?

Hon. W. S. FIELDING (Minister of Finance).

The information is all contained in the Public Accounts, but if the hon. gentleman will permit the question to stand I will give in in the form of an answer later on.

Question stands. [DOT]

4 PER CENT LOAN OF 1874.

1. On what date in 1904 was the first public notice given of the terms of the proposed extension of the 4 per cent loan of 1874?

2. At what rate did the notice offer to give

3 per cent inscribed stock in exchange for the

4 per cent debentures?

1. When was Mathias Meagher appointed to the customs staff at Debec, New Brunswick, on whose recommendation was he appointed, what is his salary and what are his duties?

2. How many officers are employed at Debec ?

1. Mathias Meagher was employed as customs preventive officer under the subcollector of customs at Debec, N. B., January 20, 1909. He was appointed by the Minister of Customs at a salary of $100 a year to prevent smuggling over the boundary line south of Debec.

2. There is a sub-collector of customs at Debec besides this preventive officer.

Mr. T. CHISHOLM asked:

How much public money has the Dominion government expended on the construction of public works in the constituency of South Wellington during the past twenty years?

Hon. WM. PUGSLEY (Minister of Public Works).

Mr. BRADBURY.

On the 7th of February an order of the House was passed for correspondence between F. W. Colclough and the Department of Marine and Fisheries, and I would ask the minister when that will be brought down. I would like it as soon as possible, because the delay is keeping me back in my work.

Mr. FIELDING.

Hon. L. P. BRODEUR (Minister of Marine and Fisheries).

I find from the Votes and Proceedings of March 29, that apparently the return referred to has been brought down.

Mr. BRADBURY.

I inquired at the office and was informed it had not been brought down.

This includes $325,000, pay of the force, and $425,000 for subsistence. There is an increase of $25,000 for pay and a decrease of $25,000 for subsistence, leaving the appropriation the same as last year. This estimate is for a force of 700 men, 500 being in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 100 in the Yukon, and 100 in the Northwest Territories. We estimate that the cost per man in Alberta and Saskatchewan will be $900 per year and in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon $1,500 per year. The increase of $25,000 in the pay is due to the rapid settlement of the provinces, which affords so much employment for labour generally that it is difficult to get men to join the force. The pay is 50 cents per man per day with an increase of 5 cents each year to the maximum of one dollar per day. But if there is a disinclination on the part of the younger men to enlist, it has been found that there is, especially among the non-commissioned officers a disposition to re-enlist at the expiration of their term of five years. We have therefore a good many veterans in the force, so that the pay, which commences at 60 cents and goes to a maximum of $1 per day, is on the average 85 cents.

Mr. FOSTER.

What is the disposition of the 500 men in the provinces?