1. What amounts were paid per year by the government of Canada to the Honourable E. N. Rhodes, during the years 1919-1920, 1920-1921, and 1921-1922?

2. What amounts were paid during these years for cab or car hire for Mr. Rhodes?

1. In what year did the government acquire the Manuel residence on Vittoria street, Ottawa?

2. What was the price paid?

3. What was the yearly rental paid to the government for the rental of the residence up to 1918?

4. How much money was spent by the government on said residence in the year 1918, and the first three months of 1919?

5. To whom was the property leased in 1919?

6 When did he move into said property?

7. From what date did he pay rental?

8. What was the amount of the rental per year?

9. By whom were the taxes paid?

10. What was the amount of the taxes for the years 1919, 1920 and 1921?

11. What amount was spent by the government in

upkeep and maintenance of the residence, during each of the years 1919, 1920 and 1921? .

12. How much per year was paid to the lessee during these years by the government of Canada as an allowance for a residence?

Mr. CARRUTHERS:

It has, from timi immemorial.

Mr. CARRUTHERS:

Blind River is on

the steamboat course between Owen Sound and the Soo; it is a regular shipping place. The warehouse there was blown down and this vote is to replace the structure which is intended to protect the goods that are shipped in there until the merchants can take them away.

Mr. CARRUTHERS:

I would refer the

leader of the opposition (Mr. Meighen) to the dock built in our town during his administration at a cost of between $50,000 and $60,000, and which was needed. It was finished some six years ago. The contract called for cement eighteen inches below the water line before any construction took place on the timbers, and at the present time the timbers below that expensive structure are exposed about a foot and a half. This means that within a very few years that expensive

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dock will crumble; the timbers will rot and the whole thing will be an entire loss.