Mr. SINCLAIR (Antigonish and Guys-borough):

1 Where is the Government steamer Can-nadian Warrior?

2. Is she under charter? If so, to whom?

3. What rate of freight is she receiving, what cargo is she carrying, and to and from what ports ?

4. Is she insured? If so, by what brokers, in what companies, and for how much?

5 Is her freight insured?

1. Vessel arrived at Barbados June 1.

2. No. Canadian Government Merchant Marine, Limited, have booked cargo themselves in both directions.

3. 2,000 tons D.W. cargo and 6,000 feet of lumber from Montreal to Barbados and Trinidad, B.W.I. On return trip she will have a full cargo of sugar from Havana, Cuba, to Montreal. Standard rates were charged on miscellaneous cargo carried.

4. Yes. Insured through Wilcox, Peck and Hughes for $750,000.

5. Freight on downward trip was prepaid. Cargo would be insured by shipper.

Mr. SAVARD:

Are there communication facilities on the North shore of the St. Lawrence river between Tadoussac and Labrador, during the winter months?

1. So far as the Department of Marine is concerned, there are none.

1. What amount has been paid by the Government to the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, Limited, for the use of certain buildings at Amherst, Nova Scotia, as barracks?

2. What claims, if any, are outstanding?

3. How long were said buildings used?

4. How much was paid for lumber supplied for said barracks, and how much of this amount was paid to the Brooklyn Lumber Company, Limited ?

5. How much has been received for lumber from the dismantling of the said barracks, and from whom?

1. What amount has been paid by the Government to the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, Limited, for the use of the Malleable Iron Works, so called, at Amherst, Nova Scotia, as an Internment Camp for alien prisoners?

2. Is this property held under lease? If so, when will the lease terminate?

3 Are there any outstanding accounts with the above named company against the Government? If so, what is the nature of these accounts and the respective amounts thereof?

1. In how many cases was the Honourable Albert S6vigny, K.C., of Montreal, employed to represent the Government or any department thereof, at Montreal, or any other place in the province of Quebec, between the 1st of April, 1918, and the 1st of May, 1919?

2. How much was paid by the Government to the said Honourable Albert SSvigny for his services in each case?

1. What rentals have been paid by the Government during the years 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919, to Mr. Huntley Drummond, of Montreal, for the lease of the Drummond Building?

2. What Departments of the Government were, and are located in the said building?

1. How many licenses to operate purse or drag seines on the Bacific Coast and adjacent waters, were issued this year, to whom were they issued, and on what dates?

2. Are any of the licensees returned soldiers? If so, what are their names?

3. How many new licenses were issued this year, to whom, and were they returned soldiers?

4. What were the names of the applicants, and the territory applied for in each case?

5. What were the names of the returned soldiers who were sole applicants for particular sections?

6. Were their applications refused in any or every case? If so, for what reason?

On the 9th of June the hon. member for East Lambton (Mr. Armstrong) asked the following question which will be found in Hansard of that date:

Mr. J. E. Armstrong (East Lambton) : I

should like to ask the Government whether it is true that the Imperial Government has appointed an Imperial Board of Investigation for the purpose of inquiring into trade relations between different parts of the British Empire; whether Sir George Perley has been appointed a member of that board, and when the findings of the board, if such has been appointed, may be expected. I should also like to know whether the

board will Inquire into trade or tariff agreements, and into the tolls or arrangements entered into between the different shipping companies within the Empire?

In answer to this question, I would say that:

1. No such Board has yet been constituted; but the Government have under consideration certain proposals submitted by His Majesty's Government for the constitution of an Imperial Investigation Board to be set up by the Governments of the Empire in pursuance of Resolutions XI and XIV of the Imperial War Conference, 1918. It is proposed that the Board shall have power to inquire into complaints with regard to ocean freights, facilities and conditions in the inter-imperial trade and into similar questions referred to them by the various governments; to survey the facilities for maritime transport within the Empire and to make recommendations for the co-ordination and improvement of such facilities.

2. Such a board not having been finally constituted, no definite ' appointment has yet been made.

3. Answered by paragraph 1.

4. Since the receipt of the proposals mentioned in paragraph 1 a proposal has been put forward to the Imperial Government by the Prime Minister of Canada on behalf of the Government of Canada that full power as to the control of ocean rates and the disposition of the shipping of the British Empire be conferred by concurrent legislation upon a temporary commission representative of the United Kingdom and the Dominions; and that a committee representative of the United Kingdom and the Dominions shall be immediately set up for the purpose of framing a permanent scheme for the same purpose and for the general development of ocean transportation within the Empire. The Prime Minister has further suggested that this proposal be considered in connection with that described in paragraph 1 and has declared that the Government of Canada will be glad to join in the discussion as soon as the Government of the United Kingdom is prepared to consider the matter.