1. What grants have been paid during 1933 by the Department of Agriculture to any fairs, agricultural societies, live stock, or farmers' organizations, in Canada?

2. What are the names of organizations, amounts of grants and when paid, giving in each case the province in which such organization is located?

Mr. STEWART (Edmonton):

Question dropped.

1. How much money was paid to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, at Toronto, during the year 1932?

2. On what dates were payments made?

Mr. STEWART (Edmonton):

Question

dropped.

1. Does any member of the government of Canada receive, or has any member of this government received a pension for war service?

2. If so, who is such member and what is the amount of the pension he has received?

3. Is he still in receipt of a pension?

1. Yes.

2. Hon. D. M. Sutherland: March 14, 1919, to April 30, 1921, $19.50 per month; May 1, 1921, to March 31, 1927, $26 per month; from April 1, 1927, $32.50 per month, which continues in effect.

Hon. R. J. Manion: February 10, 1918, to February 28, 1919, $16.67 per month; March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1919, $8.34 per month, when pension was discontinued at his request.

3. Answered by No. 2.

1. What amounts of gold were purchased by the Dominion government during the past twelve months?

2. What price did the government pay for any gold purchased?

3. What amounts of silver were purchased by the Dominion government during the past twelve months?

4. What price did the government pay for any silver purchased?

5. Did the Dominion government sell any silver during the past twelve months?

6. If so: (a) what amounts were sold; and (b) what amounts were used by the mint for coinage in Canada?

1. 2,612,049 ounces fine.

2. $71,913,624, which represented the proceeds received upon actual sale of the gold in world markets, less all costs incidental to the refining and marketing of such gold.

3. 341,711 ounces fine.

4. $114,389.

5. Yes.

6. (a) 32,272 ounces fine in mint sweep exported, and 1,750 ounces fine to manufacturers; (b) none of the silver referred to in 3 was used for coinage. The silver used for coinage during the year was obtained from worn and mutilated coin.

Mr. MACKENZIE (Vancouver):

What is the estimated annual saving arising out of the reduction or cancellation of dependents' pensions occasioned by the review undertaken during the years 1932 and 1933 by the Board of Pension Commissioners?

Mr. MacLAREN:

$124,528, made up as follows:

22 Cancellations of widows' pensions

for misconduct $ 14,976

38 Cancellations of pensions awarded

in error 25,572

Questions

499 Reductions and cancellations- changes in financial status of

parents 82,936

5 Reductions of orphans' to ordinary rates 1,044

514 1124,528

Note.-There was no special review in 1932. There are no statistics available to show the number of the above reductions or cancellations which were due to the special review in 1933, as distinct from those due to routine review.

Mr. MACKENZIE (Vancouver):

What is the estimated annual saving arising out of the reduction or cancellation of disability pensions occasioned by the review undertaken during the years 1932 and 1933 by the Board of Pension Commissioners?

Mr. MacLAREN:

'

$536,630, made up as follows:

1,376 Reductions - previously pensioned as incurred during service, now pensioned as aggravated during service $364,448

71 Cancellations-previously pensioned as incurred during service or aggravated during service 19,896

6 Cancellations-previously pensioned as incurred during service, now aggravated, but

aggravation negligible 966

123 Cancellations-pension awarded

in error 44,699

672 Discontinued with gratuity.. 106,621

2,248 $ 536,630

Note.-There was no special review in 1932. There are no statistics available to show the number of the above reductions or cancellations which were due to the special review in 1933, as distinct from those due to routine review.

Mr. NEILL:

What was the tonnage of anthracite coal produced in Canada in each of the years from 1930 to 1933, inclusive?

Mr. STEVENS:

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics have not recently recorded any production of anthracite in Canada. It is understood that there is a small deposit in the Cascade district

of Alberta which is being operated by one company at the present time, and which is anthracite in character. The output is only a few hundred tons annually, and has not been separated either in the reports of the Bureau of Statistics or of the Alberta government from the bituminous output.