Mr. FRASER (Peterborough West):

What sums and on what dates were payments made to Miss Helen Doherty as special assistant to the Minister of National War Services?

Mr. LaFLECHE: The following payments have been made to Miss Helen Doherty as general assistant, Department of National War Services, as authorized by order in council, P.C. 118/8785 on the 26th of September, 1942:

October 7-To August 31, 1942 (Deductions were not then being made at the

source)

$7,090 00October 7-To September 30, 1942, $300 less deductions

199 42October 31-To October 31, 1942, $300 less deductions

199 42November 30-To November 30, 1942, $300 less deductions

182 61December 31-To December 31, 1942, $300 less deductions

182 61January 30-To January 31, 1943, $300 less deductions

182 61February 27-To February 28, 1943, S300 less deductions

182 61

1. Has any arrangement been made to pay the chartered banks in Canada for increased duties imposed upon them by ration coupon banking, etc.?

2. If so, give the details.

Mr. ILSLEY:

1 and 2. The ration administration of the wartime prices and trade board has arranged with the chartered banks that they shall be 72537-961

reimbursed for the handling of ration coupons on a cost basis. The formula for deriving this cost figure will be worked out between the banks' accountants and the comptroller of the wartime prices and trade board.

Mr. FAIR:

What action, if any, has the government taken with respect to freezing the present farm help on Canadian farms?

Questions as Orders for Returns

Mr. MITCHELL:

Selective service mobilization regulations, section 10 (9), provide that a person employed in agriculture shall be granted a postponement from military training unless it is established that such person is not an essential worker in agriculture. An interpretative letter has been sent to all mobilization boards advising them of the policy of the government.

Selective service civilian regulations, paragraph 207, provide that no person employed in agriculture shall enter into other employment, except service in the armed forces, or seasonal or temporary employment outside of an urban municipality for not more than 60 days in any year when such employment does not interfere with agricultural production, unless he has obtained a permit from a selective service officer.

1. What is the personnel of the wartime prices and trade board at Brockville?

2. What is the salary of each member of the staff?

3. On what date was each member appointed, and on whose recommendation?

4. What is the personnel of the wartime prices and trade board at Pembroke?

5. What is the salary of each member of the staff?

6. On what date was each member appointed, and on whose recommendation?

Mr. ILSLEY:

Return tabled.

1. What is the Gallup poll and what public control is there over it?

2. WTiere are the offices of this poll and who are its officials?

1. How many civil servants, (a) temporary, (b) permanent, were employed by the dominion government, (i) in Ottawa, (ii) in Canada, on (1) September 1, 1939, (2) January 1, 1943?

2. How many of those (a) temporary, (b) permanent, residing in (i) Ottawa, (ii) outside Ottawa, will have a net salary of $660 after paying national defence and income taxes, superannuation, and other deductions?

Mr. McLARTY:

It would be extremely difficult to give any satisfactory answer to this question as drawn. Part 2 of the question refers to income taxes, superannuation and

other deductions. I take it the hon. member for Battle River means compulsory deductions, because there are deductions where war savings certificates or bonds are purchased. Subject to this qualification I would ask that the question pass as an order for return.

Mr. BENCE:

How many copies of each of the following speeches and statements were printed by the government and what was the total cost thereof,

(a) "Three years of War", a radio broadcast by Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, M.P.;

(b) "Servitude or Freedom", an address by Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, M.P., to the Canadian Club of Ottawa; (c) "Labour and the War", an address by Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, M.P., to the American Federation of Labor 1942 convention; (d) "Nothing Matters Now But Victory", an address by Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, M.P., on the opening of the 1942 victory loan campaign;

(e) statements by Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, M.P., on "The Military Occupation of French North Africa, and, The Withdrawal of Recognition of the Government of Vichy";

(f) "The Defence of Common Liberties" an address by Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, M.P., to the Pilgrims of the United States;

(g) "Temperance and a Total War Effort", an address by Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, M.P.; (h) addresses by Right Hon. Sir George Henry Wilkinson, Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, M.P., and Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, C.H., M.P., made at the Lord Mayor's Luncheon, in honour of the Prime Minister of Canada?