1. Is Horace Halcrow of The Pas, Manitoba, employed by the Department of Indian Affairs?

2. If so, in what capacity, and at what salary ?

Mr. CRERAR:

L Yes, by the Indian Affairs branch.

2. Mr. Halcrow was engaged- in a temporary capacity at a salary of $225 per month (1) to investigate the possibility of developing muskrat areas in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, (2) to secure information likely to be of assistance to the department in promoting the general welfare of hunting and trapping Indians.

Mr. LAPOINTE (Matapedia-Matane):

What amount has the government allotted for geological researches in each province of the dominion during the last ten years?

Mr. CRERAR:

Return tabled.

1. What was the total amount of capital invested in Canadian industries (both primary and secondary) on December 31, 1937?

2. What was: (a) the gross value; (b) the net value of industrial production during the year 1937?

3. What percentage and money value thereof was: (a) exported; (b) sold in the home market?

4. What percentage of the portion sold in the home market would have been dutiable if imported?

5. What estimated average rate of duty would have been charged on such portion if imported, having regard to the rates of duty now prevailing against the countries of origin of actually imported goods of similar nature?

6. What were: (1) The total amount of dividends and interest paid to: (a) common stockholders; (b) preferred stockholders; (c) debenture stockholders; (d) mortgagees; (e) all other capital creditors? (2) The total amount of reserve set aside for: (a) depreciation or

capital replacement; (b) possible future losses;

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(c) any and all other purposes? (3) The total amount set aside for: (a) sinking or amortizing fund; (b) any and all other debt reducing purposes?

7. What were: (1) The total number of: (a)

wage earners; (b) salaried employees? (2) The total amount paid: (a) in wages; (b) in

salaries; (e) in gratuities or any other form of remuneration ?

(If figures for 1937 not available, please give latest figures available.)

1. What was the total amount of capital invested in the Canadian manufacturing industry on December 31, 1937?

2. What was: (a) the gross value; (b) the net value, of its production during the year 1937?

3. What percentage and money value thereof

was: (a) exported; (b) sold in the home

market?

4. What percentage of the portion sold in the home market would have been dutiable if imported?

5. What estimated average rate of duty would have been charged on such portion if imported, having regard to the rates of duty now prevailing against the countries of origin of actually imported goods of similar nature?

6. What were: (1) The total amount of

dividends and interest paid to: (a) common

stockholders; (b) preferred stockholders; (c) debenture stockholders; (d) mortgagees; (e) all other capital creditors? (2) The total amount of reserve set aside for: (a) depreciation or

capital replacement; (b) possible future losses; (c) any and all other purposes? (3) The total amount set aside for: (a) sinking or amortization fund; (b) any and all other debt reducing purposes ?

7. What were: (1) The total number of:

(a) wage earners; (b) salaried employees?

(2) The total amounts paid: (a) in wages;

(b) in salaries; (c) in gratuities or any and all other forms of remuneration?

(If figures for 1937 not available, please give latest figures available.)

1. Has the government assigned, sold, disposed of or pledged any treasury bills or other securities received from any province as security for loans or advances made to such province?

2. Has the government by guarantee, agreement, or any other means whatsoever, undertaken or agreed, directly or indirectly, to pay or cause to be paid the whole or any part of the indebtedness of any province to a Canadian chartered bank?

3. If so: (a) when were such undertakings or agreements made or given; (b) for what amounts; (c) what sums, if any, have actually been paid by the government?

1. What is the total amount of silver purchased and held under the London agreement of 1933 up to the end of 1937, and (a) what was the purchase price paid in each of the years 1935, 1936, 1937?

2. Of the amounts purchased, what amounts were obtained or purchased as newly-mined silver in Canada, and (a) from what provinces were these amounts of silver procured?

3. What amounts of silver were exported to the United States during the years 1935, 1936, and 1937, and what price was paid for these amounts during the same years?

4. Have any representations been made by the government of the United States in connection with the continuance by Canada of the purchases of silver along the lines outlined in the London agreement of 1933, or on matters in connection with the future policy of the United States government in regard to silver?

Mr. R. E. FINN (Halifax):

I desire to call the attention of the government, particularly of the Minister of Pensions and National Health (Mr. Power) to a serious situation

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which has arisen in Halifax in connection with the Camp Hill hospital. I regret to say that a warning I gave a year ago was disregarded-

Order.