1. Is it a fact that the Icebreaker Mikula, formerly known as the J. D. Hazen, went ashore at Cap a la Rouche, near Quebec, during the present month of March ?

2. Has any investigation been held by the Wreck

Commissioners, or any one else, as to the cause of the stranding of this ship? -

3. Who was the Captain in charge at the time of the stranding, and when was he appointed?

4. Has the officer in charge at the time of the stranding been suspended?

Questions

5. What is the estimated cost of the repairs of the ship, now in drydock at Lauzon?

6. Did the government have during the present season, a supply of coal at Three Rivers for this ship?

7. Is it not a fact that if a supply of coal had been on hand at Three Rivers at the time of the stranding, there would have been no necessity for the ship to travel to Quebec for coal and return, a distance of 180 miles, and thereby have avoided the possibility of stranding?

1. The steamer Mikula while proceeding to Quebec on March 13, was overtaken in the narrow channel at Cap a la Roche by a heavy snow squall and grounded.

2. No investigation has been held but the engineer of the river St. Lawrence ship channel who was on board the vessel at the time has submitted a full report.

3. Captain John Hearn, appointed master C.G.S, Montcalm 25 March, 1919; on April 15, 1922, Capt. Hearn was appointed master to bring the Mikula out to Canada. Capt. Hearn took charge Mikula again 16 December, 1922.

4. No.

5. The ship is not in dry dock and as the extent of the damage is as yet unknown no estimate of the cost of repairs has been made.

6. A supply of coal for the vessel was available at Three Rivers.

7. The vessel was returning to Quebec not for the purpose of obtaining a supply of coal but to make an examination of difficulties that had arisen with the port propeller. Inasmuch as the vessel had to return to Quebec for this purpose it was deemed more advantageous to obtain the necessary coal requirements there, the price per ton being $8.50 as against a price of $9.50 per ton by the Dominion Coal Company at Three Rivers and a price of $12 per ton offered by J. H. Giroux. Investigation in the meantime reveals the port propeller as having two broken blades.

1. How many persons were employed in a temporary capacity by the various departments of the government on the 31st December, 1921?

2. How many persons were employed in a temporary capacity by the various departments of the Government on the 31st December, 1922?

1. How many temporary clerks in the Civil Service have been made permanent by the Civil Service Commission since the 1st January, 1922?

2. What are the names of such clerks and what are

their positions?

3. At what date were they made permanent?

1. Are all the departments of the Government making their purchases through the Purchasing Commission of Canada?

2. If not, what departments are, and what departments are not?

3. If all are not purchasing through the Commission, what is the reason?

1. What amount of School Lands have been sold on which payments are now over due?

2. What is the maximum length of time of these over due payments?

3. Can the purchasers be divided into resident and non-resident? If so, what proportion of each are there?

4. On what lands other than the school lands are the purchasers in default of payment?

5. Are there any real estate or other corporations in default of payment for lands?

6. If so, what are their names?

7. What is the amount of indebtedness in this connection?