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

In answer to an inquiry by the hon. member for Temiscouata (Mr. Pouliot) I have to advise that the report of the fifteenth assembly of the League of Nations for 1934 was printed in English and French when I tabled copies on January 24 last. I understand there was some delay in the distribution office, but the report had been printed when I laid copies on the table.

Mr. POULIOT:

Thank you.

1. What were the quantities of butter

exported to Canada during the years 1931 to 1934, inclusive, by: (a) New Zealand; (b)

Australia?

2. What were the prices of the butter each month during the above mentioned years at the Canadian port of entry?

3. What were the duties, dumping penalty, or other taxation imposed per pound each month during the above period?

Mr. BENNETT:

There might be a little difficulty in connection with this question. Perhaps the hon. member would change the words "exported to" to "imported into". What may have been exported from these countries and the destination of which may have been changed we could not control, but we can give information as to actual imports into the country.

Mr. MULOCK:

Quite satisfactory.

Question stands.

Mr. BRASSET:

What are the statutes adopted at the last session which were to come in force on proclamation and which have not yet been proclaimed ?

Mr. BENNETT:

It has not been usual to ask members of the administration to answer a question of this character which the hon. gentleman can answer for himself, as every member receives copies of the statutes

Mr. SPEAKER:

Dropped.

1. Has the attention of the Prime Minister been drawn to an answer given in the British House of Commons on November 13, 1934, by the Secretary of State for the Dominions to Brig.-General J. J. H. Nation, regarding the empire migration policy?

2. Did the Prime Minister receive a dispatch from the Secretary of State for the Dominions in regard to the subject?

3. If so, on what date was such dispatch received ?

4. Has a reply yet been sent to this dispatch?

5. If so, will a copy of said dispatch and reply be laid on the table of the house?

1. Yes.

2. A dispatch was received from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, transmitting copies of a report of the United

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Kingdom Interdepartmental Committee on Migration Policy and intimating that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom had not had an opportunity of considering the report.

A further dispatch was received requesting any observations which His Majesty's government in Canada might wish to make thereon.

3. On September 14 and November 24, respectively.

4. The report was referred to the departments interested for consideration fiom the Canadian point of view. The general position of the Canadian government on the' subject of migration had previously been set forth in personal discussions in London. A draft official reply to the second dispatch has been prepared, but has not yet been sent, pending further consideration of the bearing of conditions in the drought area and of urban unemployment upon the possibilities of land settlement and increased migration generally.

5. In accordance with the usual procedure, the consent of the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs for tabling his dispatches is being requested, and copies of these dispatches and of the reply of the Canadian government will be furnished as soon as they are available.

1. Does the Post Office Department allow the shipping of goods to Russia by parcel post?

2. If so, must an invoice be placed in each parcel?

3. Is it necessary to get a licence from the Soviet authorities for all the parcels shipped in trading with Russia?

1. Yes-parcel post being routed through England or France.

2 and 3. Yes.