1. What is the total amount of loans granted under the soldier settlement board?

2. What is the total amount of interest accrued on these loans?

3. What amount of principal has been repaid?

4. What amount of interest has been paid?

5. What amount of (a) principal, and (b) interest, are now in arrears?

6. What is the estimate of bad or doubtful accounts to date?

7. What is the cost of administration of the soldier settlement board to date?

Mr. CRERAR:

Return tabled herewith.

Mr. BRASSET (for Mr. Gauthier):

For a copy of all correspondence, letters, telegrams and other documents in the possession of the Department of Public Works, 12739-157

relating to Mr. A. Poirier, carpenter, 5892 Hutchison street, Montreal, dated from October 1, 1935, to April 28, 1936.

Mr. BRASSET (for Mr. Gauthier):

For a copy of all correspondence, letters, telegrams and other documents in the possession of the Department of Public Works, dated from October 1, 1935, to April 28, 1936, relating to Mr. D. Brown, stationary engineer, and the extension of time that was granted to him.

Mr. BROOKS:

For a copy of all correspondence and documents in connection with the cancellation of the contract of the Southern Salvage Company of Liverpool, with the Department of Public Works, for the dredging at Mahone Bay during the year 1935.

Mr. STEVENS:

For a list showing the names and places of residence of mechanical engineers on government dredges or barges operated by the Public Works department or Marine department, who have received half-pay during the winter months, of the past winter of 1935-36; such list to show' the amount paid in each instance.

Right Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING (Prime Minister):

Mr. Speaker, the right hon. leader of the opposition (Mr. Bennett) has asked on one or two occasions if I would inform him and the house what legislation remains to be introduced.

Mr. BENNETT:

He was about to do so again.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

I thought so, it may be just as well to anticipate.

In addition to the bills and resolutions which appear under government orders and the budget resolutions which are to be found in the votes and proceedings of Friday last, there will be legislation based on the reports and recommendations of the several special committees-the committee on the Elections and Franchise Acts, the committee on pensions and returned soldier problems, the committee on the Canadian radio commission, the committee on the marketing of wheat and other grains, and possibly also of the committee on railways and shipping. How extensive this legislation may 'be it is of course, not possible to say until the committees themselves have reported.

Hudson Bay Route

The proposed additional legislation will include (a) bills respecting a national finance council, loan councils, based upon the amendment to the British North America Act, notice of which appears on the order paper in the name of the Minister of Justice; (b) amendments to the criminal code, including reference to section 98; (c) a bill respecting the national parks; (d) an amendment to the Customs Act; there may also be amendments to the Combines Act, the Post Office Act, the Relief Act, the Proprietary or Patent Medicines Act, the Dry Docks Subsidies Act, the Carriage of Goods By Water Act, and a bill respecting marketing. These will be for the most part minor amendments. Then possibly there may be supplementary estimates of limited amounts.

I wish to add this further reservation. I am giving to the house at the moment all that the government see as a possibility, but I should like to have the right reserved to introduce one or two other measures should this be found necessary between now and the time that parliament prorogues.