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

I understand that this is the Prime Minister's birthday. I should like to extend to my right hon. friend my best wishes for many happy returns of the day, and perhaps on this occasion he will allow me to speak for the house and to extend these wishes on behalf of us all.

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

The very unusual and kindly act of the right hon. the leader of the opposition I shall not soon forget. Through you, Mr. Speaker, I should like to thank him for having thought of so gracious an act as that which he has just now done and, more, for the felicitous terms in which he has expressed it. I have had a very interesting and very hardworking life; I have enjoyed the one and gained much experience from the other.

Mr. F. G. SANDERSON (South Perth):

On Saturday I directed a question to the Minister of Trade and Commerce in regard to Australian flour shipped from Southampton to Halifax. Has the minister any further information?

Hon. H. H. STEVENS (Minister of Trade and Commerce):

There is no further information. There are a few small shipments coming in but nothing out of the usual. The necessary and, I think, effective steps have been taken to deal with the whole question and I may say that in this respect we are receiving the reasonable cooperation of the *Australian authorities.

Mr. SANDERSON:

My question was

directed to the minister in regard to this one shipment, which he said he would look into- a very large shipment from Southampton to Halifax.

Mr. STEVENS:

I am sorry my hon. friend-

Mr. SANDERSON:

Don't be sorry for me.

Mr. STEVENS:

Pardon me. I say I am sorry that my hon. friend persists in stirring up this question. I have stated repeatedly that with the very kind cooperation of the

Australian government the whole matter is being satisfactorily dealt with. The shipments are not large when one considers the movement of goods. The shipment he refers to is three hundred tons, not a large one. The matter is well in hand and is being most satisfactorily dealt with, and I do not think there is any need or occasion for agitation or alarm.

Mr. SANDERSON:

Does the minister suggest that I am agitating?

Mr. STEVENS:

No, I said there was no need for agitation.

Mr. YOUNG:

I hope the minister will not take any action that would tend to jeopardize the market for our own flour and wheat in Britain and other countries.

Mr. VINCENT DUPUIS (Laprairie-Napier-ville):

I wish to ask a question of the Minister of the Interior. Yesterday I had the honour to be invited to the ordination of the first Indian priest in Caughnawaga, and while we were there the authorities were very anxious to know whether something could be done in the interests of hygiene. There is a very high death rate in that reservation. In the province of Quebec there are sanitary units and it would cost the Department of Indian Affairs only $150 a year, and the Quebec government could take charge of this reservation. I should be very much obliged if the minister, from his general estimates, could devote the necessary sum for hygiene purposes in this district.

Order.