Mr. ILSLEY:
Is it intended to compel the manufacturers of fungicides and insecticides to put on the package the chemical analysis of the article?
Mr. MOTHERWELL:
Approved analysts
will be appointed to whom samples suspected of not 'being up to the mark will be submitted for analysis. I suggest that we can proceed more satisfactorily if we consider the bill in committee.
, Mr. ILSLEY: I desired to call that point to the attention of the minister because I know that is what the fruit growers of Nova Scotia are demanding. They wish provisions to be enacted similar to those existing with regard to the sale of fertilizers. They regard this matter as very much akin to that of fertilizers.
Mr. MOTHERWELL:
Not only have some of the insecticides and fungicides proved1 useless, but many have proved exceedingly injurious and have destroyed the foliage of trees.
Mr. McGIBBON:
I presume that when the minister refers to the appointment of analysts he has reference to some of the men already in the employ of the government?
Mr. MOTHER'WELL: In the case of a number of acts like those dealing with feeds and fertilizers there is provision for the ap-
pointment of what we call approved analysts. There is no salary connected with the position, but the public will know that these men are recognized by the department as properly qualified approved analysts.
Mr. HANSON:
Is it the intention of the department to set up a bureau to handle this matter? I did not understand that there were any such new officials to be appointed?
Mr. MOTHERWELL:
No.
Resolution reported, read the second time, and concurred in. Mr. Motherwell thereupon moved for leave to introduce Bill No. 257, to regulate the sale and inspection of agricultural economic poisons.
Motion agreed to and bill read the first time.
Mr. SPEAKER:
When shall said bill be
read a second time?
Mr. MOTHERWELL:
I beg to move that the bill be now read the second time.
Sir GEORGE PERLEY:
Has the bill been printed yet?
Mr. MACKENZIE KING:
It has been
printed and the idea is to send it to the committee on agriculture.
Mr. CAHAN:
Is the bill available so that members may read it?
Mr. SPEAKER:
The bill has been printed.
Mr. CAHAN:
It has not been distributed,
I think.
Mr. SPEAKER:
It has been printed but
not distributed.
Sir GEORGE PERLEY:
It is to go to the
committee on agriculture?
Mr. MACKENZIE KING:
The purpose
of asking for the second reading is to permit of the bill going to the committee on agriculture.
Motion agreed to, bill read the second time and referred to the select standing committee on agriculture and colonization.
Right Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING (Prime Minister) moved that the House go into committee to consider the following proposed resolution: That it is expedient to amend the act respecting the Department of Marine and Fisheries to provide that the department shall consist of the Post Office Act Marine branch and the Fisheries branch, and that two officers may be appointed by the governor in council as Deputy Minister of Marine and Deputy Minister of '.Fisheries, respectively. Motion agreed to and the House went into committee, Mr. Johnston in the chair.