1. Did War Assets Corporation or any government department since September 30, 1945, sell or dispose of any buildings, machinery or equipment formerly used by Polymer Corporation Limited, or any of its associated operating companies?

2. If so, what are the particulars including prices and the names of the purchasers?

1. Yes.

2. (a) The following buildings have been sold by War Assets Corporation:

Description-Purchaser-Price

Old purchasing building, Polymer Corporation Ltd., $2,200.

Post office building, W. Eric Harris, $80.

Bunk house, Miss Myrtle Jacques, $1,900.

Commissary building and bake shop, S. Jackson, $3,600.

Bowling alley and equipment, Byron W. Neal, $3,500.

In addition to the above prices, the purchasers had to remove the buildings from the sites and restore the land to its original condition at their own expense.

A considerable amount of machinery, equipment, supplies, furniture, etc., has been declared surplus. This surplus material has been disposed of in accordance with the policies of War Assets Corporation. In order to provide the detailed information requested, it would be necessary to examine the very large number of invoices covering the sales of the material and equipment which _ar.e listed in more than 200 declarations of surplus.

(b) The following articles have been sold by Polymer Corporation Limited:

Description-Purchaser-Price

Six typewriters, Ellenors typewriter service, $300.

One Ford station wagon, Lambton Motors, Sarnia, $263.

One Ford pick-up truck, \ ton, 1939, Lamb-ton Motors, Sarnia, $113.

Polymer Corporation Limited has been authorized to dispose directly of machinery, equipment, etc. which becomes surplus in the course of their operations as distinguished from buildings, machinery or equipment which became surplus to their requirements at the completion of their construction programme.

1. How many public auctions for the sale of surplus war assets have been held under the direction of War Assets Corporation or War Assets Limited?

2. At what places were these held?

3. What materials, equipment or supplies were sold at each?

1. 10.

2. Aurora, Ontario, at the army depot; St. Catharines, Ontario, at the R.C.A.F. station; St. Johns, Que., at the R.C.A.F. station; Lake-burn, N.B., at "War Assets Corporation warehouse No. 1; Maitland, N.S., at the R.C.A.F. station; Mount Pleasant, P.E.I., at the R.C.A.F. station; Charlottetown. P.E.I., at the R.C.A.F. station; Dauphin, Manitoba, at the R.C.A.F. station; Pictou, Nova Scotia, at the foundation maritime; London, Ontario, at the central mechanization depot.

3. At the first eight of the above noted sales, materials disposed of consisted of a

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general line of consumer goods such as beds, tables, chairs, pots and pans, et cetera. The sales were open to the general public.

The sale at Pictou, N.S., held at the plant of Foundation Maritime was for licensed dealers only and the equipment sold consisted of ship components only.

The sale at London, Ontario, held at the central mechanization depot was confined to bona fide farmers certified by the Canadian federation of agricultural workers and the equipment consisted of army pattern trucks.

1. What is the total cost of the publicity personnel in the Department of Labour?

2. Who is employed?

3. What salaries are they paid?

4. Is a departmental paper published? If so, what is the cost of publishing same?

1. The total cost of publicity personnel in the Department of Labour is $34,820 per annum.

2 and 3.

Salaries

Persons Employed Paid

Phelan, V. C $5,100

Anderson, Gordon 3,800

Blackburn, G. G 2,820

Cross, K. C 2,820

Young, D. M 2,520

D'Aoust, J. C 2,400

McVea, J. F 2,400

Nagle, V. A 2,400

Ullock, J. F 2,040

Eight clerks, stenographers and typists whose aggregate salary per annum is 8,520.

Total $34,820.

4. No.

Mr. McKAY:

Have the manufacturers of farm implements been permitted to mark up prices 12J per cent on stocks of implements manufactured prior to April 13, 1946?

Mr. MAYHEW:

The increase in the maximum prices authorized effective April 13, 1946. for farm machinery produced in whole or in part in Canada applies to all sales of such farm machinery on or after that date. In any case where a buyer and a seller had a firm contract as of April 13 for future delivery of farm machinery at prices lower than the new maximum prices, the buyer has the ordinary protection of law against any variation in the contract prices.