Mr. STEWART (Edmonton):
We are
pursuing that investigation.
Mr. GARDINER:
I should like to ask
the minister a question with regard to this amount of $47,000, to provide for the payment to the province of Saskatchewan of one-half of the amount disbursed by that province for the relief to needy settlers. Has that recently been disbursed?
Mr. STEWART (Edmonton):
The provinces carry the losses. This is just the same as in Alberta. When it is ascertained that the amounts cannot be recovered, we divide the loss. We are simply carrying out the old agreement that was made.
Mr. GARDINER:
This is the old agreement. I thought it was to cover recent disbursements?
Mr. STEWART (Edmonton):
No.
Item agreed to. Supply-Post Office
Miscellaneous-grant to the Western Stock Growers, $5,000.
Mr. FRASER:
Who are the Western
Stock Growers? What is this amount required for?
Mr. STEWART (Edmonton):
It is a very-active association with headquarters at Calgary, and is largely composed of ranchers; it does not take in the farmers. We have from time to time given them grants to assist them in their work.
Mr. FRASER:
Is the minister sure that
he has the name correct?
Mr. STEWART (Edmonton):
Yes.
Mr. FRASER:
Is it not the Western
Stock Breeders' Association?
Mr. STEWART (Edmonton):
No.
Mr. FRASER:
I know an association
called the Western Stock Breeders. Is this the same one?
Mr. STEWART (Edmonton):
No. This
association is named oorrectly. It covers all of southern Alberta and part of southern Saskatchewan. Ranchers constitute 90 per cent of it.
Mr. FRASER:
Does it include in its
membership any of the British Columbia stock growers?
Mr. STEWART (Edmonton):
I am not
sure; I cannot say definitely.
Item agreed to.
Post Office-Outside service-to compensate the widow of the late Thomas Jackson who was fatally wounded by bandits following the robbery of the Toronto and Fort William railway post office in train No. 4 near Parry Sound, Ontario, on August 18, 1928, $1,000. To provide for payment of allowances from April 1, 1929, to railway mail clerks in charge of railway post offices, in accordance with provisions of order in council, P.C. 394-487, dated March 21, 1929, $160,000. To provide for the readjustment of the salaries of certain postal employees in western Canada who were dismissed in 1919 and subsequently reemployed, to give them payment as from the date of their reemployment for services actually performed at the rates of remuneration paid to other employees for similar service, $100,000.-Total, $261,000.