Explain.

Mr. MORAND:

The intention of this amendment is simply to permit the present racing time of fourteen days, under the act as it stands, to be on consecutive days on which racing is permitted, instead of having twenty days intervene between the two seven-day meetings. There is no enlargement in the number of days nor in the number of meetings; as I say, it is simply to have permission for races to be held on fourteen days consecutively on such days as racing is permitted.

Motion agreed to and bill read the first time.

1. What is the name of the postmaster at Iberville, Quebec?

2. What is his age?

3. Is he in receipt of a salary or is he paid out of the revenue?

4. In either case, how much salary has he received per month since his appointment?

5. What were the revenues of this office for each year since 1928?

6. Is the appointment at this post office under the jurisdiction of the Civil Service Commission?

7. If so, did the incumbent pass the examinations ordered by the Civil Service Commission?

Questions

8. Did the Civil Service Commission make a recommendation as to the appointment to this position ?

9. What person did it recommend?

10. If this position does not come under the jurisdiction of the Civil Service Commission, on whose recommendation was the present incumbent appointed?

11. Is this appointment: (a) permanent, or

(b) temporary?

12. When was the present incumbent appointed ?

13. How long will the present incumbent remain in office?

14. Is this appointment in conformity with the recommendations of the Civil Service Commission?

15. If not, why were such recommendations not followed?

1. Pierre Ernest Thuot is in temporary charge.

2. Sixty years.

3. Paid out of revenue according to regular scale.

4. From date of appointment, December 5, 1932, to June 30, 1933, $153.30 a month. Since July 1, 1933, $132.97 a month.

5. Fiscal years 1927-28, $3,992.84; 1928-29, $4,091.08; 1929-30, $4,674.08; 1930-31,14,591.09; 1931-32, $5,028.19; 1932-33, $4,220.94.

6. Permanent appointment rests with Commission.

7. Yes. In connection with permanent appointment.

8. Yes.

9. Wilfrid Denicourt, O.A.S.

10. See answer to question 6.

11. P. E. Thuot is acting as temporary Postmaster only.

12. December 5, 1932.

13. Pending decision as to the respective qualifications of two applicants who are both returned soldiers.

14-15. Temporary transfer was effected before consideration was given to the permanent appointment by the Commission.

1. Is Colonel G. C. McLean of Norwood, Manitoba, in the employ of the federal government ?

2. If so, what is his title?

3. What is his salary?

4. What are his duties?

1. Yes.

2. Dominion Director of Unemployment Relief for Manitoba.

3. $2,700 per annum, less the statutory deduction of 10 per cent.

4. To act for the federal Department of Labour in all matters pertaining to unemployment relief.

Mr. DURANLEAU:

1 and 2. On the recommendation of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, whose function it is to determine the number of broadcasting stations in Canada, the Minister of Marine did not renew the licence under which station VE9EK was broadcasting when it expired on the 31st March, 1933.

3. Yes, by a petition dated Montmagny, 19th February, 1934, addressed to the Minister of Marine.

4. Radio communication between the mainland and the Department of Public Works wire telephone system on lie aux Grues and the adjacent islands is maintained by a radio telephone station at Montmagny which communicates with a similar station on lie aux Grues. These two stations were established by the Department of Public Works in 1932, and are operated under their jurisdiction.

1. Since the establishment of the republic of Poland at the close of the great war, a number of communications have passed between the Polish and the Canadian governments respecting the question of negotiating a convention of commerce between the two countries. Hitherto it has not been found practical to conclude such a convention. Conversations are at present being carried on between the Polish Consul General in Ottawa and officials of the departments concerned with a view to examining the bases for the conclusion of a convention of commerce between Canada and Poland. No conclusions, however, have yet been reached.

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