Mr. ROGERS:

This amount is required to pay the claim of T. and J. Moran [DOT] in connection with their contract for the construction of a wharf at Quyon. The claim is made up as follows: Increased quantities of timber used in work, $478.38; extra cost to provide temporary landing for steamer G. B. Greene while the wharf was under construction, $365.25; total $843.62.

Rimouski wharf-water supply, $6,000.

Mr. MARCIL:

Will the minister explain that item?

Mr. ROGERS:

This amount is required to provide for the extension of the waterworks at Rimouski to the outer end of the wharf, for the purpose of supplying fresh water to the Government and other vessels. The town of Rimouski undertakes to instal this system in a first-class manner for this amount.

Mr. MARCIL:

Has the resident engineer of Bonaventure county reported in favour of repairs being made to certain of the wharfs down there-I refer particularly to Bonaventure, Gascon, St. Godfroy, Cap-lan and Paspebiac? Is provision made for the completion of Ithe beach protection work fat Carleton and Maria? Is work to be carried on thp wharf of Robin, Jones & Whitman at Paspebiac? Bonaventure county does does not appear in the Main or the Supplementary Estimates. I wanted to know whether the engineer had omitted to make any report, or whether the department had decided not to make any expenditures. I ask this, because a lot of these repairs are necessary.

Mt. ROGERS:

In general terms, all repairs asked for by the engineers appear in

the Estimates; but the deputy will look the matter up, and if we have any recommendations from the engineer in the department, we shall be glad to send a copy to my hon. friend. The Paspebiac wharf has not yet been transferred to the department.

Mr. MAECIL:

The minister's explanation last year was that it was intended to spend three or four thousand dollars on this wharf, the wharf to remain the property of the private owners, but to be available for the use of the public. Is no work to be done until the wharf is transferred to the Department?

Mr. EOGEES:

That is my understanding.

Mr. MAECIL:

The highways at Carleton and Maria have been washed away by the heavy tides and storms. Is that beach protection work to be continued this year?

Mr. EOGEES:

There is a difference of opinion as to whether the work that has been carried on in the past at Carleton and Maria should be done by 3 p.m. this department or by the municipal authorities. Of course, at present, when we can get any excuse to delay expenditure we are doing so, and that may 'be the explanation in this ease.

Harbours and rivers, Ontario-Bruce Mines- repairs to and reconstruction of wharf, $12,750.

Mr. EOGEES:

This amount was asked for by the district engineer to repair and reconstruct this wharf. On October 4, 1915, he reported that this expenditure was necessary, the work to consist of cutting the piles off at water level and building, a complete new superstructure.

Cobourg-repairs to east pier, $15,000.

Mr. EOGEES:

This is asked for by the district engineer to make general repairs and improvements to the east pier, 200 feet in concrete. The work done during the present fiscal year consisted in the completion and the reconstruction of the centre pier, under contract with Eandolph Macdonald. This pier has a length of 631 feet. The reconstruction of 320 feet of the east pier is concrete work.

Mr. GEAHAM:

The car ferry goes across the lake there, does it not?

Mr. EOGEES:

Yes.

Mr. NESBITT:

Was there something

wrong with the construction that you need repairs?

Mr. EOGEES:

It is an old wharf, which is being repaired.

Mr. NESBITT:

You are building it with cement now?

Mr. EOGEES:

Yes.

Grand Bend-repairs to pier, $15,000.

Mr. GEAHAM:

Is there any work being done at Kingston drydock in the way of repairing ships?

Mr. EOGEES:

There is something being done. The Kingston Shipbuilding Company do a good deal of work theTe.

Mr. GEAHAM:

What size of boat can

they handle in that drydock? *