Mr. ROSS (Kingston):

What fairs associations or clubs in the province of Ontario have received grants and allowances from the Department of Agriculture of the Dominion of Canada during the year 1928?

Mr. MOTHERWELL:

, Grants to summer fairs: Western Fair,

London, Ontario; Central Canada Exhibition, Ottawa; Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto; Peterboro Industrial Exhibition.

Grants to winter fairs: Ottawa Winter

Fair; Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Toronto; Ontario Provincial Winter Fair, Guelph.

Grants to heifer club fairs: Slate River

Valley Holstein Club; Peterboro Boys' and Girls' Club; Wilmot Jersey Heifer Club; Galt Holstein Heifer Club; Halton Holstein Heifer Club.

Grants to bacon hog fairs: Campbellford, Orono, Ilderton, Simcoe, Caledon East, Kemptville, Almonte.

Grants to market lamb fairs: Emo, Middle-ville, Little Current, Manitowaning, Havelock, Franktown.

Grants to boys' and girls' sheep club fairs: Appin, Deleware, Sylvan, Thorndale, Kamoka, Ashfield, Maitland, Inter Club Fair at London, Warsaw, Indian River.

Note: The question has been interpreted

as applicable only to grants to fair associations and club fairs. Accordingly, clubs where no fairs are held, as for instance, " stallion clubs," are not listed.

1. What number of immigrants under twenty-one years of age, (a) males, (b) females, came into Canada during the last year from the British Isles?

2. Can the department say how many of these were between fourteen and twenty-one years of age?

Mr. FORKE:

1 and 2. The immigration compilations do not show the number of immigrants from the British isles under twenty-one years of age.

They show the number under eighteen years of age who came to Canada during the fiscal year 1927-28 as 14,523, of whom 8,479 were males and 6,044 were females. The total immigration from the British isles was 51,552. It is impossible to show from the statistics the number between fourteen and twenty-one.

1. From whom was the steamer Larch chartered for service in connection with the Hudson strait expedition during the season of 1928?

2. What is the tonnage of the said steamer?

3. What was the rate of hire paid for the said steamer Larch while under charter?

4. What quantity of coal was loaded on said steamer before proceeding on the outward voyage to Hudson strait?

5. Where was the coal loaded on the said

steamer ? .

6. What was the price per ton paid for the

said coal? _

7. For what purpose was the said coal purchased?

8. When did the said steamer Larch reach Halifax on the return voyage from Hudson strait?

9. How much of the said coal was on board when the steamer Larch arrived at Halifax from Hudson strait?

10. What disposition was made of the coal so returned?

1. Messrs. Farquhar & Co. Limited, Halifax, N.S.

2 . 5.870 tons dead weight carrying capacity, 2,261 tons net-3,564 tons gross.

3. $350 per day. Department furnishing bunker coal only. Owners finding crew, provisions, deck and engine room stores and insuring ship.

4. 3,603 tons.

5. Sydney, N.S., with the exception of 70 tons loaded at Halifax, N.S.

6. Six dollars per ton trimmed on board.

7. To supply bunker fuel for the C.G.S. Montcalm and the SS. Larch while these vessels employed in Hudson strait. The additional quantity was sent to guard against shortage of coal in the event that any casualty should happen that would detain either vessel in the strait.

8. October 24, at 4.45 p.m.

9. Fifteen hundred and eleven tons.

10. 619 tons discharged at marine agency wharf at Dartmouth and supplied to Dominion steamers and agency as required for which department received credit at the rate of $7 per ton. There was no room on .the agency wharf to store the balance and after obtaining several offers for the purchase of the remaining 892 tons, the highest received, that from Messrs. O'Leary, of Halifax, for S5.25 per ton was accepted.

Questions

1. How many persons were convicted last year of illegally selling any of the drugs, opium, morphine, cocaine or any of their derivatives?

2. How many of these were, (a) medical men;

(b) veterinary surgeons; (c) dentists; (d) druggists, and what were their respective nationalities?

3. How many were convicted for illegally bringing same into Canada, and what were their occupations?

4. How many drug addicts were known in Canada during the year, 1928?

1. In the judicial year ending September 30, 1928, 61. In addition 129 were convicted of illegal possession, many of whom were known to be traffickers. There were also 163 convictions reported by the Bureau of Statistics as "breaches of act not otherwise defined" which very probably includes some cases in that category.

2. (a) 7: English Canadians, 5; French

Canadians, 1; Jewish, 1.

(b) 2: English Canadians, 2.

(c) 1: English Canadians, 1.

(d) None.

3. Nine persons were convicted of "possession" under circumstances which went to show that the drugs were brought into Canada by them: ship's fitter, 1; ship's firemen, 2; ship's greaser, 1; ship's second engineer, 1; ship's clerk, 1; ship's chief stewards, 2; merchant, 1.

4. It, is estimated that there are 8,000 persons in Canada addicted to the use of narcotics.

1. What was the outlay on the part of the government of Canada in connection with the miners brought to Canada from England last summer, described on page 428 of Hansard as "cooperation in placing them at harvest work"?

1. The department used its existing organization to place at harvest work such of the harvesters as applied to the department for that purpose. The main part of the distribution work was done by the railways. The staff of the Department of Immigration and Colonization was not increased in any way to look after this work.

1. What amount was expended on the wharf and harbour at Oakville during the years 1919 to 1928, inclusive?

2. Was the work done by contract and, if so, give the name and address of the contractor in each year?

3. Was local labour employed and, if so, to what number in each year?

4. If the work was not done by contract in any year, how was it done?

5. Give an answer to the same queries in regard to the wharf and harbour at Bronte?

1. $64,577.80.

2 and 3. (a) By contract and day labour; (b) In 1920-21 work done under contract by the C. S. Boone Dredging & Construction Company, Limited of Toronto. In 1927-28 and 1928-29 work done under agreement by the Russell Construction Company of Toronto. No information as to whether the employees of the contractors were residents of the locality or not.

4. By day labour.

5. $19,555.46, all the work being done by day labour.

1. How- much raw leaf tobacco was imported from the United States during the year 1928?

2. What is the present rate of duty per pound: (a) stemmed; (b) unstemmed?

3. How' much tobacco was exported from

Canada during the year 1928 to: (a) Great

Britain; (b) other countries?

4. What is the present rate of dutsr on tobaeco: (a) all grades; (b) raw and manufactured, entering Canada?

5. What grades of tobacco were imported during the past year?

6. How many pounds of each?

7. How many pounds of tobacco were produced in Canada during the years 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1928?

8. How many pounds of tobacco were exported during each of the afore-mentioned years?

9. How many pounds of tobacco were imported during each of the afore-mentioned years?