1. How many officials were employed in Banff Park office on September 1, 1911?

2. How many are employed there at the present time?

3. How many officials were employed in the Dominion Lands, Irrigation, Customs and Post Offices, respectively, in Calgary, on September 1, 1911?

4. How many are employed there at the present time?

Mr. CODERRE:

Customs:

1 and 2. None.

3. Twenty-eight in the Customs.

4. Forty-four, of whom two are absent on active military service. The employment of the sixteen additional officers was necessitated by the increase in the customs business at Calgary, as follows, viz.:

Customs revenue: Fiscal year 1910-11, $1,104,916.56; 1911-12, $1,707,751.10; 1912-13, $2,522,902.56; 1913-14, $1,910,385.09.

Number of import entries: Fiscal year 1910-11, 22,132; 1911-12, 30,710; 1912-13, 42,561; 1913-14, 41,066.

Interior:

1. 8.

2. 17.

3. Dominion Lands office, Calgary, 21; Irrigation office, Calgary, 11.

4. Dominion Lands office, Calgary, 27; Irrigation office, Calgary, 24, including 6 officers engaged on the Canadian Pacific railway reclassification work, whose services in connection with this work will not be required after the 1st April next.

Post Office:

1 and 2. The department is not aware of the number of assistants employed in the Banff post office, as the assistants are employed by the postmaster, and not appointed by the department.

3 and 4. Calgary post office, number of employees, 1st September, 1911, 97; 1st March, 1915, 180.

Note: Due to expansion of the service, the revenue of the Calgary post office in 1911 being $158,513; in 1914, the last year for which definite information can be given, $308,874.

1. When did the contract expire for carrying the mails between Grandigue Perry, Arichat and Vest Arichat, recently held by Joseph Parker?

2. Were tenders asked for in respect of this service during the year 1914?

3. If so, when were notices calling for tenders posted, and what was the last date for receiving such tenders?

4. From whom were tenders received, and what is the amount of each?

0. (a) Who performed the service since the expiration of Parker's contract, (b) and what is the amount paid for same?

6. Why was not the contract awarded to the lowest tenderer?

7. What was the amount of Parker's contract ?

8. When will the new contract be awarded?

1. 31st December, 1914.

2 and 3. Tenders were invited twice. The first notices were dated 20th August, 1914, and tenders were due at the department on 2nd October, 1914. The second notices were dated 3rd November, 1914, and the tenders were due on 18th December, 1914.

4. The tenders in both cases were considered excessive, and the department has been endeavouring to obtain more reasonable offers. It is not considered advisable to give the names and amounts of the tenders until the new contract has been awarded and executed.

5. (a) Cassie Parker, executrix of the late Joseph Parker, who was responsible for the service, under the former contract, from 1st April, 1913, to 31st December, 1914. (b) $3 per day.

6. Answered by No. 4.

7. $495 per annum.

8. As soon as a reasonable offer has been received.

Mr. EDWARDS:

What officials of Stoney Mountain penitentiary have been dismissed since 1911, and what were the reasons in each case for such dismissal ?

Mr. DOHERTY:

One keeper, three

guards and one industrial guard. One for violation of the Penitentiary Act and selling intoxicating liquor to officers. Two for coming on duty under the influence of liquor. Two for violation of the provisions of the Penitentiary Act.

Mr. McOREA:

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1. How many days' actual service has A. Genest, an employee in the Post Office Department at Sherbrooke, given to said position from April 1, 1912, up to present date?

2. What is the total amount of salary paid to him for his services during the said period?

1. From the 1st April, 1912, to 15th March,

1915, the records show that Mr. Genest reported for duty 481 days. -

2. The total amount of salary paid for his services up to the 28th February, 1915, was $3,973.31.

1. From whom are the supplies for the Petawawa military camp purchased?

2. Are tenders asked for before purchasing them, and who are asked to tender?

1. Meat from Harris Abattoir Co., Toronto, and D. Braseh, Pembroke; bread from Jas. D. Leitch, Pembroke, and English & Davidson, Pembroke; groceries and vegetables from Hunter Co., Pembroke.

2. Yes, tenders were asked from local firms.

1. Is John Krans in the employment of the Department of Agriculture, or any other department of the Government?

2. What are his duties, and what salary does he receive?

3. Who recommended his appointment?

Mr. REID:

I am informed that Mr. Krans is not in the employ of the Department of Agriculture. If the hon. member will let us know the name of the department in which he believes Mr. Krans to be, the answering of the question will be expedited.

Question stands.