1. What is the tonnage, both ocean and

coasting entering and clearing from the following ports in Canada for the last completed fiscal year: Sidney, Nova Scotia; Halifax,

Nova Scotia; Saint John, New Brunswick; Quebec, Quebec; Montreal, Quebec; Prince Rupert, British Columbia; New Westminster, British Columbia; Vancouver, British Columbia; Victoria, British Columbia?

2. Which of the above ports have harbour commissions ?

<>.. What would be the charges against a foreign-going steamship of six thousand tons (6,000) gross, three thousand eight hundred tons (3,800) net, draft twenty-five feet (25) carrying ten thousand tons (10,000) of cargo entering and leaving each of the above ports?

. 4. Of the ports as enumerated in this question, which one has the least charges and what is the nature of such charges for vessels entering and clearing from such port?

5. What ports as enumerated in this list have compulsory payment of pilotage dues, and what ports have not such charges?

Civil Service Salaries

Mr. VENIOT (for Mr. Ralston):

For a copy of all correspondence, applications, reiports, memoranda, recommendations, and all other documents, to or from or in the possession of the Minister of Marine or any other minister or ministers of the government, or to or from any official or officials of the Civil Service Commission, or any other person or persons, relating to the dismissal of Dr. G. R. Deveau as marine doctor at Arichat, Nova Scotia.

Mr. VENIOT:

For a copy of all correspondence between the Department of Fisheries and any person or persons in connection with the work done for the Department of Fisheries in the county of Gloucester by Philip Mercier, the correspondence above referred to to date from the first of September, 1930.

Mr. MacLEAN:

For a copy of all correspondence, letters, telegrams and other documents, including full copy of all evidence taken in connection with the dismissal of Dougald Campbell as postmaster at South west lot 16, Prince Edward Island, and the commissioner's report on same.

Mr. MacLEAN:

For a copy of all correspondence, telegrams, letters and evidence taken at the investigation concerning the dismissal of Edward C. Gaudet, plant disease investigator, of Pleasant View, Prince county, Prince Edward Island, with the commissioner's report on same; also a return showing, if available, the expenses in connection with the investigation.

Mr. E. R. E. CHEVRIER (Ottawa):

I

wish to direct to the Prime Minister a question based on two press items that have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen. I shall read only what I consider relevant to the question I shall submit, and if in doing so I fail to place the question in its proper light I shall be glad to read the extracts fully. First of all I refer to the Ottawa Evening Citizen of Tuesday, July 14. On the front page there appears the following:

Replying to a query by The Citizen this afternoon, however, Mr. Bennett said: "I do not at the moment propose a further interim supply bill."

This is taken by some to mean that the

salaries may have to wait until departmental estimates are approved by the house.

That is the first quotation. The next one appears in the morning Citizen of July 15:

In view of his statement to The Citizen early yesterday afternoon that he did not, at the moment, propose a further interim supply bill, The Citizen again approached the Prime Minister on the matter in the evening.

"Does it mean that the civil servants will have to wait for their salaries until the main departmental estimates are passed by the house"? Mr. Bennett was asked.

"Well, you see, I had expected that the main estimates would have been passed by parliament in the regular way before this date, without a further interim supply bill being necessary, hut four or five days' delay doesn't mean so very much."

"You think the estimates will be passed in that time"?

"Oh, I didn't say that; but I don't forget things like salaries," the Prime Minister concluded. "I will have to consider what will be done in view of the situation now existing."

In the light of these two quotations may I ask the right hon. gentleman whether civil servants throughout Canada will be paid today? If not, why not, and if not, when will they be paid?

Solicitude.

Right Hon. R. B. BENNETT (Prime Minister):

An interim supply bill for one-twelfth of the main estimates was passed some time ago. There is no provision, without the passing of an interim supply bill, for the payment of salaries due to-day, and I asked the leader of the 'opposition (Mr. Mackenzie King) whether 'there was any objection to the passing of an interim supply bill this afternoon. He assured me that there was not, and I propose to ask the house to pass a bill to-day.

Right Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING (Leader of the Opposition):

My right hon. friend will remember that in our conversation I suggested that this would be an opportune time for him to make a statement with regard to the remaining business of the session. I pointed out that if we met him in one particular we hoped that he would meet us in the other.