Mr. GRAHAM:
They did not get it
expended by the end of the year.
Item agreed to. To provide for compassionate allowance to Chas. H. Lake, father of John Lake, former employee of the Radio branch of the Department of Marine, $1,500.
Mr. MEIGHEN:
What is this for?
Mr. CARDIN:
This is a compassionate
allowance for the father of a boy in the Radio branch who was killed.
Mr. MEIGHEN:
Was the father dependent on him?
Mr. CARDIN:
Yes.
Item agreed to. To provide for compassionate allowance to Elzear Martineau, former boilermaker's helper at the Quebec agency of the Department of Marine, $1,018.33.
Mr. MEIGHEN:
Why is the minister's
compassion not as great for this man as for the other fellow?
Mr. CARDIN:
This man had applied for
superannuation, but his papers had been lost in the department, and we found them too late. The time within which he could be superannuated had expired.
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Mr. MEIGHEN:
The act has been extended for a year.
Mr. CARDIN:
He was going to be superannuated under the Calder Act.
Mr. MEIGHEN:
Why is he not superannuated still? The time under the Calder Act has expired?
Mr. CARDIN:
Yes.
Mr. MEIGHEN:
This really is his retiring allowance under the Calder Act?
Mr. CARDIN:
Yes.
Item agreed to. To provide for compassionate allowance to Mrs. Margaret R. Cullum, widow of the late William Cullum, former steamship inspector, Department of Marine, $3,240.
Mr. MEIGHEN:
What happened here?
Mr. CARDIN:
This man died when he
was preparing his papers.
Mr. MEIGHEN:
How is it she gets so
much more than the other?
Mr. CARDIN:
It depends on the salary
he was receiving.