Mr. G. C. Nowlan (Annapolis-Kings):

Mr. Speaker, I am sure all hon. members from Nova Scotia will tender their sympathy to my deskmate, the hon. member for Moose Jaw (Mr. Thatcher), to the hon. member for Souris (Mr. Ross) and to the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Gardiner), as well as to all other ardent curlers in the house, on the fact that teams representing those various places in the Canadian championship bowed to the Nova Scotia team in Halifax on Saturday last.

I am sure, sir, that all of them will join with us from Nova Scotia in tendering our congratulations to the Kentville rink consisting of Wallace Knock, Fred Dyke, George Hansen and Donald Oyler, a very youthful and, from the national standpoint, inexperienced team. They not only won the dominion championship, but won it in such a way that their record can never be broken, and probably will never be equalled.

Mr. J. H. Dickey (Halifax):

Mr. Speaker, may I say how pleased and happy the city of Halifax and the province of Nova Scotia were to entertain those who participated in the Dominion curling championship. The bonspiel was a model of good feeling and good sportsmanship; and while it was not the role of the perfect host to win the championship we could not help taking a great deal of pleasure from that fact as well.

Mr. Cruickshank:

British Columbia was second.

1. How many retired employees of the Canadian National Railways are in receipt of pensions of less than $25 per month?

2. How many are in receipt of only the basic pension of $25 per month?

3. How many are in receipt of non-contributory service pensions (a) $25.01 to $29.99 per month; (b) $30 to $39.99 per month; (c) $40 to $49.99 per month; (d) $50 to $59.99 per month; (e) $60 to $69.99 per month; (f) $70 to $79.99 per month; (g) $80 to 89.99 per month; (h) $90 to $99.99 per month; (i) $100 to $125 per month; fj) over $125 per month?

4. How many retired employees of the Canadian National Railways are in receipt of pensions in part basic and in part contributory (a) $25 to $29.99 per month; (b) $30 to $39.99 per month; (c) $40 to $49.99 per month; (d) $50 to $59.99 per month; (e) $60 to $69.99 per month; (f) $70 to $79.99 per month; (g) $80 to $89.99 per month; (h) $90 to $99.99 per month; (i) $100 to $125 per month; (j) over $125 per month?

Mr. Benidickson:

The Canadian National Railways advise as follows:

1. 24 under C.N.R. prior plan.

2. 3,256.

3. (a) $25.01 to $29.99 per month, 745; (b) $30.00 to $39.99 per month, 670; (c) $40.00 to $49.99 per month, 330; (d) $50.00 to $59.99 per month, 228; (e) $60.00 to $69.99 per month,

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138; (f) $70.00 to $79.99 per month, 100; (g) $80.00 to $89.99 per month, 55; (h) $90.00 to $99.99 per month, 40; (i) $100.00 to $125.00 per month, 24; (j) over $125.00 per month, 80; total, 2,410.

4. (a) $25,01 to $29.99 per month, 459; (b) $30.00 to $39.99 per month, 2,115; (c) $40.00 to $49.99 per month, 1,689; (d) $50.00 to $59.99 per month, 1,220; (e) $60.00 to $69.99 per month, 1,003; (f) $70.00 to $79.99 per month, 856; (g) $80.00 to $89.99 per month, 723; (h) $90.00 to $99.99 per month, 607; (i) $100.00 to $125.00 per month, 884; (j) over $125.00 per month, 1,177; total, 10,733.

Mr. Benidickson:

The Canadian National Railways advise as follows:

1. (a) $125.01 to $199.99 per month-74;

(b) $200 to $299.99 per month-4; (c)

$300 to $399.99 per month-1; (d) $400

to $499.99 per month-nil; (e) $500 or over per month-1; total-80.

2. (a) $125.01 to $199.99 per month-1,008; (b) $200 to $299.99 per month-122; (c) $300 to $399.99 per month-22; (d) $400 to $499.99 per month-9; (e) $500 or over per month-16; total-1,177.

3. Apart from pension payments under pension fund regulations (but not additional or supplemental thereto), four retirement annuities are being paid to retired employees as under: (a) $125.01 to $199.99 per month- nil; (h) $200 to $299.99 per month-3; (c) $300 to $399.99 per month-nil; (d) $400 to $499.99 per month-1; (e) $500 or over per month-nil; total

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CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS- RETIREMENT ALLOWANCES Mr. Knowles:

1. How many former employees or officials of the Canadian National Railways who, upon retirement,

did not qualify for any pension under any established plan, are in receipt of retirement allowances?

2. How many of these retirement allowances are $100 a month or over, how many are less than $100 a month, and what is the lowest amount of any such allowance?

1. 15.

2. $100 a month or over-4; less than $100 a month-11; lowest amount of any such allowance-$25.

1. What is the total number of persons employed by the Canadian National Railways?

2. Of these, how many are eligible to contribute toward a supplemental pension in addition to the basic pension of $23 per month to which they will be entitled on retirement at age sixty-five?

3. J5ow many are now contributing toward such a supplemental pension?

4. How many Canadian National Railways employees, upon retirement, will qualify, according to their present status, for non-contributory service pensions?

5. How many employees now working for the Canadian National Railways will be entitled on retirement, according to their present status, to only the basic pension of $25 per month?

6. Is the basic pension of $25 per month available to all employees, and if so, on what conditions?

1. On Canadian lines at December 31, 1950, 104,096.

2. All except temporary employees and those who commenced after age fifty-five and those who are now contributing to other railway pension funds, viz.: 4,848 contributors to Intercolonial provident fund and 12 contributors to Grand Trunk Railway superannuation fund.

3. Contributors to C.N.R. pension plan, 40,637; contributors to I.C.R. and P.E.I. provident fund, 4,848; contributors to G.T.R. superannuation, and provident fund association, 12.

4. Service pensions are payable to employees who entered the service before attaining age fifty who at December 31, 1934, had at least ten years allowable service and at age sixty-five have at least fifteen years allowable service. It is not possible to say how many employees will meet these requirements.

5. There is no record of the number of employees who on retirement will be entitled to only the basic pension of $25 per month. Approximately only 40 per cent of eligible employees are contributing to a supplementary pension.

6. Basic pensions are payable to:

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