1. What is the total amount of interest that has been paid on our national debt since confederation or as far back as our records of borrowing show?

2. What is our present national debt?

3. How much of this is original principal and how much is interest?

1. $2,823,245,404.93 to January 31, 1936.

2. Net debt at January 31, 1938, $2,895,124.262.99.

3. Borrowings are not allocated to particular purposes under consolidated fund system.

1. How many farmers of Beauce county applied for a loan since the Farm Loan Act became law, giving the number of such applications for each year separately?

2. How many inspections were carried out for which the farm loan board received $10, in connection with each such inspection, giving the number for each year separately?

3. In how many cases was the inspection carried out without the $10 being paid, giving the number for each year separately?

4. In how many cases was the loan application granted and the loan made, giving the number for each year separately?

5. What was the amount of the loan made in each case and in each year?

6. In how many cases did the farm loan board require two inspections, giving the number for each year separately?

7. In each case where a loan was made, on what date was the loan application presented and on what date was said loan granted and documents completed, giving the figures for each year separately?

Mr. DUNNING:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. The following answers are furnished by the Canadian farm loan board: Records of the Canadian farm loan board are not kept by counties and the information asked for is not now available.

1. How many applications were received from the province of Ontario for a loan under the provisions of the Canadian Farm Loan Act during the year 1935?

2. In how many cases was the loan application granted and the loan made?

3. How many applications were received from the counties of Huron and Perth, Ontario, for a loan under the provisions of the Canadian Farm Loan Act during the year 1935?

4. In how many cases was the loan application granted and the loan made, in these two counties?

5. What are the names and addresses of the persons who secured loans in this manner in the two counties?

6. What was the amount of each such loan in the counties of Huron and Perth?

7. What has been the total cost to the government for the administration of the Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act from the time it began to function to December 31, 1935?

1. 2,484 from May, 1935, to January 31, 1936.

2. 607.

3. 4, 5 and 6. The records of the Canadian farm loan 'board are not kept by counties and the information asked for is not now available. Moreover, the transactions between the board and borrowers are regarded as confidential and it is not considered in the public interest that information revealing the names of persons who have obtained loans should be given.

7. $840,562.88.

(Answers 1 to 6 furnished by Canadian farm loan board).

1. What lawyers and law firms, if any, of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, were retained by the federal government of Canada during the period from August 1, 1930, until December 31, 1935?

2. What sums were paid by the federal government and all departments thereof to each such la-wyer and law firm?

3. What services were rendered by each such lawyer and law firm for the amounts so paid to each?

4. What sums, if any, are still owing, or claimed for such services, and to whom?

1. According to the records of the Post Office Department, how many postmasters at present occupy their position because they brought about the dismissal of their Liberal predecessor?

2. Is a postmaster who secured his position after having informed against his predecessor and brought about his dismissal, guilty of political interference or of an injustice which may justify his own dismissal?

1. According to the records of the Post Office Department, from August 7, 1930, to

Retiring Allowances-Mr. Heaps

October 29, 1935, how many times did the Postmaster General exercise the discretionary powers vested in him under Section 67 of the Post Office Act, whereby mail contracts are not always awarded to the lowest tenderer?

2. According to the records of the Post Office Department, from August 7, 1930, to October 29, 1935, how many mail contracts were awarded to persons who, not being originally the lowest tenderers, were allowed to reconsider their tender and reduce the figure thereof?

Mr. BOULANGER:

For a copy of the complete file respecting the contract for mail delivery on rural route No. 1 of Armagh Station, awarded to Georges Roy, April 1, 1932, expiring March 31, 1936, and renewed on October 9, 1935, for a period of four years.

Mr. BOULANGER:

For a copy of the complete file respecting the contract for mail delivery on the Armagh rural route awarded to Mrs. J. A. Blais, January 11, 1932, expiring December 31, 1935, and renewed September 24, 1935, for a period of four years.