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

My hon. friend the leader of the opposition (Mr. Bennett) asked yesterday for correspondence in relation to the transfer of their natural resources to the western provinces. I 'beg to lay on the table the papers referring to the transfer of the natural resources of the province of Manitoba; also a copy of the correspondence relating to the transfer of the natural resources of the province of Saskatchewan, and a copy of the correspondence with respect to the transfer of the natural resources of the province of Alberta. I would like to say to my hon. friend, with respect to the correspondence between our government and the Alberta government, that there are two or three telegrams which were personal and confidential. I will send them to my hon. friend, and if, after reading them, he thinks that it would serve any useful purpose to have them made public at this time, the government will have no objection; but I think he may feel that they should be kept private for the present.

Hon. R. B. BENNETT (Leader of the Opposition):

I think the Prime Minister

might keep the telegrams. I prefer not to see them at the moment. I accept his view that it might not be in the public interest to have them made public at the present time.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

I did not

understand my hon. friend's request yesterday to cover papers respecting the railway lands and the lands in the Peace river block in British Columbia, but no doubt he must wish to see the correspondence respecting these lands as well.

Mr. BENNETT:

I should be greatly

obliged.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

I now lay the correspondence on the table.

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

I foeg to lay on the table a copy of the general treaty for the renunciation of war, signed at Paris, on the 27th of August, 1928.

I beg to move:

That 1,000 copies in English and 500 copies in French of the general treaty for the renunciation of war, signed at Paris on the 27th of August, 1928, and tabled to-day, be printed forthwith, and that standing order 64 be suspended in relation thereto.

Mr. SPEAKER:

By unanimous consent.

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

I beg to lay on the table

copy of the convention and protocol between Canada and the United States for the preservation of Niagara Falls :by the construction of remedial works and for the experimental withdrawal of additional water, signed at Ottawa, on the 2nd day of January, 1929.

I beg to move:

That 1,000 copies in English and 500 copies in French of -the convention and protocol for the preservation of Niagara Falls, signed at Ottawa on January 2, 1929, and tabled this day, be printed forthwith, and that standing order 64 be suspended in relation thereto.

Mr. SPEAKER:

By unanimous consent.

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

I beg to lay on the table a copy of the minute of council approving and confirming an agreement entered into in London between the government of the Dominion of Canada and the government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, pursuant to the terms of the treaty between the allied and associated ' powers and Bulgaria signed at Neuilly-sur-Seine on November 27, 1919.

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

Mr. Speaker, only yesterday this House of Commons gave expression to its sense of loss at the death of an hon member who had been taken from us since the last session of parliament. To-day we have again to express like feelings with respect to another vacancy which has been created by the hand of death.

Yesterday our words had reference to one who sat on this side of the house and who was a lifelong member of the Liberal party; to-day in the passing of Dr. R. F. Preston, the member for Lanark, we mourn in common with hon. gentlemen opposite the loss of one who sat on the opposite side and who was b lifelong member of the Conservative party.

Dr. Preston was in his sixty-ninth year. Few men have, in the course of their lives, devoted themselves more completely to public service. He entered the House of Commons at a by-election in the constituency of Lanark in 1922. He was returned at the general elections of 1925 and of 1926. Prior to his entry into federal politics he had taken an active part in the politics of the province of Ontario, having entered many contests in both the federal and provincial arenas. He was returned to the provincial legislature on no less than five different occasions. While a member of the provincial legislature, his ability and services were recognized through his selection as the whip of his party, and by his appointment as minister without portfolio in the administrations of Sir James Whitney and Sir William Hearst. At an earlier age Dr. Preston had been scarcely less active in municipal politics, having filled respectively the positions of reeve and warden of the county. He was the first mayor of Carleton Place after its incorporation and was elected to that office on three occasions.

Dr. Preston was an able physician and an honoured member of his profession. Yesterday reference was made in this house to the great services rendered to sufferers by the members of the medical profession. Today

we are reminded of the attendant risks which often wait upon their service. I believe it is true that it was in the faithful discharge of his professional duties that Dr. Preston contracted the cold which later developed into an illness which proved to be fatal.

On behalf of the members of the government and all who sit on this side of the house, may I extend to my hon. friend the leader of the opposition, and to those who sit around him, our sincere sympathy in the loss they have sustained of one who was foremost in the councils of the Conservative party and one of its recognized leaders in the province of Ontario. And may I also express, on behalf of the House of Commons as a whole, its sense of loss in the passing of one who was held in high regard and esteem by members of all parties.