Adam Brown Crosby
Conservative (1867-1942)
Mr. CROSBY.
The item of $100,000 has not been passed and before that item passes this information can be got?
Subtopic: BUILDING PUBLIC WORKS.
Mr. CROSBY.
The item of $100,000 has not been passed and before that item passes this information can be got?
Mr. PUGSLEY.
Very well.
Mr. BLAIN.
Is there to be a clock in this building?
Mr. PUGSLEY.
No, as far as I am at present advised there is no clock provided for. .
Mr. BLAIN.
Has my hon. friend information about that other clock that he was to give us the other night?
Mr. PUGSLEY.
I will have that when we come to deal with the $100,000 item.
Three Rivers, new public building to replace buildings destroyed by fire June 23, 1908, $75,000.
Carried.
Mr. CAMPBELL.
Is this item passed?
Mr. DEPUTY SPEAKER.
It is open to discuss if the hon. gentleman wishes to speak on it.
Mr. CAMPBELL.
When the item of clocks comes before the House I would like to ask who is in charge of the clock that
advises the members of this House when they should attend here? Is it the Minister of Public Works? He is very anxious about clocks down in Lunenburg and other Grit ridings all through Canada, but he is very religiously forgetful that the members have a clock on the tower of the House of parliament that is not at present running. On certain occasions the clock has pointed to ten minutes to ten and judging by the attendance on the side of the House that the hon. minister is leading at present one would conclude that the members think it is ten minutes to ten in the morning instead of ten minutes to ten in the evening when they should be here. The clock is at present pointing to ten minutes after eight. If there is any attention paid by his department or by himself to the requisites of the people of Canada he should have the clock that is to guide us as members representing the people running in proper order instead of standing still as it is at present.
Mr. PUGSLEY.
I shall have much pleasure in having the matter which the hon. gentleman complains of inquired into.
Mr. CAMPBELL.
It is not a matter of inquiry now; it is a matter of history.
Mr. DEPUTY SPEAKER.
Is the item for Three Rivers carried?
Mr. PUGSLEY.
That is carried.
Mr. CAMPBELL.
What is carried? There is nothing carried.
Mr. PERLEY.
As there is one item in Quebec to stand we might allow these three items to stand.
Mr. PUGSLEY.
No, let us put them all through, and we will leave the large one. Three Rivers, as hon. gentlemen know, was perhaps not almost completely, but very largely destroyed by fire in June, 1908. The public buildings were burned and this is for the purpose of erecting a new public building. Three Rivers is a very important place as will be seen from the fact that we had a postal revenue last year of $13,156; customs duties $180,947.89; excise $63,707.71; weights and measures $1,682.05; electric light inspection $157.50; money orders issued $49,173.80; money orders paid $112,378.52; imports $1,792,394.
Mr. PERLEY.
Is this under contract now?
Mr. PUGSLEY.
No, but the plans are substantially ready.
Mr. PERLEY.
How much is it to. cost?