Mr. GEARY:

lor a copy of all correspondence between the Minister of Marine and Fisheries or any officer or official of the Department of Marine and Fisheries and (a) broadcasting station CKCL (The Dominion Battery Company Limited), and (b) broadcasting station CKNC (Canada Carbon Company, Limited, Toronto), relative to the change of such stations from the 840 kilocycle channel to the 580 kilocycle channel.

Mr. BLACK (Halifax):

For a return of a statement showing in full

(a) the total amount spent from the year 1911 to date on the Hudson Bay railway by the Railway department; (b) the total amount spent by the Railway department in the port of Nelson; (e) the total amount spent on the port of Churchill by the Railway department; (d) the costs to the Railway department in full in the purchase and transport of all supplies to the ports of Nelson or Churchill in connection with the Hudson Bay railway and its terminals and their facilities; (e) the total amount expended by the Marine department in connection with the port of Nelson or Churchill and the Hudson Bay railway and in the survey of navigation in the straits or in Hudson bay and in the placing of aids to navigation in the Hudson straits or Hudson hay and at the ports of Nelson and Churchill; (f) the total cost of aerial surveys in Hudson straits and Hudson bay in connection with the navigation to the ports of Nelson and Churchill; (g) all other expenditures for any department of the government in connection with the Hudson Bay railway, its terminals at Nelson or Churchill and in the navigation of the Hudson bay and straits.

All such statements to include expenditures from the year 1911 to date, inclusive.

Supply-Customs Valuations for Duty

Mr. JOHN EVANS (Rosetown):

I wish

to direct the attention of the Minister of Immigration (Mr. Forke) to the fact that seventy-five families of Mennonites lately out from Europe have been left for some time without any means of support. The large land owners have moved to Mexico, and although their bishop has secured from $10 to $15 from the head of each family they are still without any means of support or of getting work.

Hon. ROBERT FORKE (Minister of Immigration) :

There is a special agent at present investigating the different Mennonite settlements and I have had no report from him in regard to the matter my hon. friend mentions. If such is the case I will look into it.

Mr. EVANS:

The firm of Sibbald and

Caswell, solicitors, of Saskatoon, have charge of the matter.

Sir GEORGE PERLEY (Argenteuil):

I

am glad to see my genial friend the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Motherwell) back in his place. It would have been very wise had he been present Saturday evening; he might have taken cognizance of some of the remarks that were then made regarding one section of his department.

Mr. SPEAKER:

This is not a question

on the orders of the day.

Sir GEORGE PERLEY:

I want to ask the minister a question because I am interested in the matter myself. There was a good deal of criticism Saturday night regarding the re-, peal of grants to class B fairs. There is one of these fairs in my own county and I know what a good thing it is. Will the minister say whether he will change the arrangements in respect to these grants to class B fairs and give them the usual amount?

Mr. ROSS (Kingston):

I want to ask the

minister a question along the same line.

Mr. SPEAKER:

Perhaps the minister will

be allowed to answer one question first.

Hon. W. R. MOTHERWELL (Minister of Agriculture):

I read a synopsis of the discussion that took place last Saturday. There

was a full discussion and it was intimated that consideration would be given by the government to the representations made.