Mr. ROBERT FORKE (Brandon):

I move that, in accordance with the recommendation

continued in the third report of the selectstanding committee on Miscellaneous Private Bills, the fees and charges paid on Bill No. 47, incorporating the United Church of Canada, be refunded, less the cost of printing and translation.

Right Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING (Prime Minister):

Mr. Speaker, I have

received from the Civil Service Commission some further correspondence with respect to the revision of salaries of postal employees. This correspondence is between the officials of the Post Office Department and the Civil Service Commission. I presented the other day what I was given to understand was a complete return, but the member for East York (Mr. Harris) drew my attention to the fact that while it included correspondence between the deputy ministers and the Commission, there might possibly be other correspondence between officials of the department and the Commission. This is the correspondence I now lay on the Table.

Hon. CHARLES STEWART (Argenteuil):

(Minister of the Interior) moved for leave to introduce Bill No. 187, to amend the Dominion Lands Act.

Mr. MEIGHEN:

Explain.

Mr. STEWART (Argenteuil):

This amendment to the Dominion Lands Act is to permit the department to sell small portions of land on .-chool sections. At the present time it is difficult to enter into an agreement of sale owing to the provisions of the act that require a sale by public auction. We frequently have application made to us for small sites for cemetery plots, school sites, and so forth, and in the case of the Winnipeg Greater Water District, the right of way crosses these

lands. This amendment will affect only the sale of very small areas. We have consulted with the premiers of the three prairie provinces, and have their consent to this legislation, which will permit us to fix the value without a public sale in selling small parcels for the purposes I have mentioned.

Mr. MEIGHEN:

The explanation does not explain to me. There always was a method of taking care of the sale of small portions. What I would like to get-perhaps the min-

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ister could give it later better than now-is an explanation of what the new method is as compared with the old. They did not have to proceed by auction before.

Mr. STEWART (Argenteuil):

I think my

hon. friend will agree with me that that has been the practice. I know that we have received a great many applications for sand pits, gravel pits, cemetery plots, and school sites particularly. In the case of school sites there never was much difficulty, but there is a great deal of difficulty in connection with other small parcels of lands.

Motion agreed to and bill read the first time.

1. When was James Stewart appointed Canadian National Railway director?

2. How many meetings of such directors has he attended since? When and at what places?

1. October 4, 1922.

2. 1922, October 10, Toronto; 1923, January 29, Ottawa; February 19, Ottawa; March 19, Ottawa; June 11, Montreal; July 24, Winnipeg (Executive Meeting); 1924, January 21, Montreal; February 14, Montreal; May 19, Montreal.