1. Under what Act of Parliament, Order in Council or other authority are French-English signs put up at a number of post offices outside of the province of Quebec?

2. Under what authority are purely French signs put up on the post offices at Verner, Ont., Edam, Sask., and other places outside Quebec province?

1. Under instructions of the late Postmaster General the Hon. Mr. Casgrain, that English signs only should be used in exclusively English communities, French signs only in exclusively French communities, and both French and English signs in mixed communities.

2. Answered by number one. In Edam instructions were that both French and English signs be used, and English and French signs were issued. As to Verner the inspector's report was that it was located in a purely French community.

1. Is $2.21 a bushel for No. 1 hard wheat a maximum or a fixed price to growers?

2. What commission is the elevator or commission agent allowed to charge?

3. Is commission charged to Canadian dealers the same as to export purchasers?

4. How many commission profits can he added from purchasers and consumer, or from miller to baker?

Sir GEORGE FOSTER:

I may say, in answer to question No. 1, that the fixed price per bushel for No. 1 hard wheat is $2.21. The answer to No. 2 is that such commissions and fees as are allowable to elevators that come under the Act, and are usual in exchanges to members of exchanges, have not been interfered with. The answer to. No. 3 is that Canadian dealers and export purchasers are on the same footing. It is impossible to answer No. 4, as it would all depend upon the transmigrations of the wheat from the Dominion following the seller until it reached the purchaser, but a farmer can cart his wheat to the loading platform, put it on the car, send it to Fort William, and pay no fees or commisions of any kind. If he uses the elevators he will pay the elevator fee, an I if he uses middlemen, he will pay them their commission.

OFFICERS OF NAVAL SERVICE AT . HALIFAX.

Mr. G. W. KYTE (Richmond) moved:

For a return giving the names, rank, pay, nature and date of employment and previous service of (a) all officers employed in or connected with the Naval Service at Halifax, including patrol service; (b) all civilians appointed since November, 1911. Also giving a list of the number, names and rate of pay of returned soldiers or sailors included in (a).

He said: I beg to amend this notice of motion, in accordance with the understanding arrived at with the Minister of Naval Affairs (Mr. Hazen), by striking out all the words 'afteT the word "service" in the fourth line. I wish to strike out the part of the question which asks for the names of the men and returned soldiers. My hon. friend the Minister of Naval Affairs spoke of the difficulty in obtaining the names, which would make a very large list.

Sir ROBERT BORDEN:

Is the amendment in accordance with the understanding arrived at between my hon. friend and the Minister of Naval Affairs?

Mr. KYTE:

That is my understanding, but if there should be any misunderstanding, I do not ask that the return he brought [Mr. Doherty. 1

down. I merely wish to have the motion passed, so that if the minister or his officials find no objection to it the return may be brought down.

'Sir ROBERT BORDEN: I will let the motion pass with that understanding, although I would prefer that the hon. gentleman should do as I suggested the other day, have given me the form in which he proposed to have the motion submitted.

Mr. KYTE:

That is the form.

Sir ROBERT BORDEN:

Yes, but I asked the hon. gentleman to give it to me so that I might submit it to the deputy minister, who would know much more about it than I do, and I would have come hack with the information. But I am content to let it pass as amended.

Mr. KYTE:

I entirely overlooked the

matter. I intended communicating it to the Prime Minister, but it escaped my mind.

Motion as amended agreed to.

Mr. KYTE moved:

Hon. W. J. ROCHE (Minister of the Interior) moved:

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That the following Orders in Council, laid on the Table on the first day of February, 1917, foe approved:

Orders in Council which have been published in the Canada Gazette, between 1st January, 1916, and the 31st December, 1916, in accordance with the provisions of section 77 of "The Dominion Lands Act," chapter 20, 7-8 Edward VII.

Orders in Council which have been published in the Canada Gazette, between the 1st January, 1916, and the 31st December, 1916, in accordance with the provisions of "The Forest Reserves and Park Act," section 19, of chapter 10, 1-2 George V.

Orders in Council which have been published in the Canada Gazette, between the 1st January, 1916, and the 31st December, 1916, in accordance with the provisions of sections 6, and 2, chapter 45, 3-4 George V, 1913, entitled "The Railway Belt Water Act."

Orders in Council which have been published in the Canada Gazette and In the British Columbia Gazette between 1st January, 1916, and the 31st December, 1916, in accordance with provisions of subsection (d) of section 38 of the regulations for the survey, administration, disposal and management of Dominion Lands-within the 40-mile Railway Belt in the Province of British Columbia.

Sir WILFRID LAURIER:

Will the hon. minister explain these Orders in Council to the House? We have forgotten what they were.