Right Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING <Prime Minister) moved: That the name of Mr. Barber be substituted for that of Mr. Baker on the joint committee of both houses on the parliamentary restaurant.
Mr. BAKER:
I think there is an error. The motion is to substitute the name Baker for Barber. They have sufficient bakers up in the restaurant now.
Mr. MACKENZIE KING:
I am simply carrying out the instructions of the whip.
Motion agreed to.
Right Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING <Prime Minister): Mr. Speaker, I beg to lay on the table a white paper in English and in French, containing the documents relating to the Italo-Ethiopian conflict.
Mr. W. K. ESLING (Kootenay West) moved for leave to introduce Bill No. 7, to amend the Copyright Amendment Act, 1931.
Explain.
Mr. ESLING:
Mr. Speaker, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and the Performing Right Society of England, with which are affiliated similar societies in eighteen European countries, organized the Canadian Performing Right Society, and to it assigned their alleged control by ownership and copyright of two million pieces of music.
Under the amended Copyright Act of 1931 this society is authorized to issue licences and to collect fees for the performance of any one of these two million pieces of music in a public place. The purpose of this bill is to curb the activities of the society in so far as their fees are deemed to be excessive, and to require the society to furnish to licencees a list of the two million pieces of music of which this society claims ownership either by control or by copyright. One thing to be emphasized is the fact, in accordance with the report of the royal commissioner, that Canadian authors, composers and publishers do not participate in the benefits of the Canadian Performing Right Society.
Motion agreed to and bill read the first time.
(Questions answered orally are indicated by an asterisk).
1. What is the total cost of the Lac Seul clearing project from the beginning of the project until the end of December, 1935?
2. How many men day's work was provided?
3. Of the total amount, what percentage was paid in wages: (a) what was the amount for camps and camp equipment; (b) what was the amount of the costs of administration and supervision?
4. How many acres were cleared?
5. How many cords of merchantable pulp-wood were salvaged?
6. How many feet B.M. of timber? .
1. $863,237.60.
2. 549,736.
3. Allowances to supervisory staffs and labourers, 23-8 per cent. Wages to skilled labour at prevailing rates, 8-08 per cent, (a) $110,17528. (b) $195,041.04.
4. 659-7.
5. 2254.
6. 576,950 feet b.m. in addition to lumber produced for the erection of camp buildings, docks, wharves, etc.
1. Are nurses with overseas service during the Great war entitled to preference in making appointments to hospitals under the control o1 the federal government?
Questions
2. Has a matron or nurse recently been appointed to the staff of the Deer Lodge hospital, Winnipeg?
3. If so: (a) was she a registered nurse;
(b) had she service overseas in the Great war?
1. Yes, provided the candidate is qualified under the provisions of the Civil Service Act and is physically and otherwise suitable to carry out the duties of the position.
2. Yes. (1) One matron (by promotion);
(2) One nurse.
3. (1) (a) Yes; (b) Yes.
(2) (a) Yes; (b) No.