Mr. GORDON:
I desire to lay on the
table of the house certain orders in council passed pursuant to the relief legislation.
Mr. ROSS W. GRAY (West Lambton): Mr. Speaker, I beg leave to present to the house a petition signed by Charles Hayward and over nine hundred other farmers residing in the constituency which I have the honour to represent. The petition is addressed to the Minister of Finance.
Mr. SPEAKER:
The petition is directed
to the Minister of Finance and should have been presented to him, not to the house. The references of the hon. member to the petition will be struck out.
Duty on British Imports
DUTY ON BRITISH IMPORTS On the orders of the day:
Hon. W. D. EULER (North Waterloo):
Hon. E. B. RYCKMAN (Minister of National Revenue):
I have not seen the
article to which my hon. friend refers, but so far as my knowledge goes I think the facts stated are not quite correct. I shall be glad to consider the matter and give an answer to-morrow.
PENSION LEGISLATION On the orders of the day:
Mr. C. G. POWER (Quebec South):
I should like to ask the Minister of Pensions and National Health (Mr. MacLaren) if the rumour which appeared in the press to-day to the effect that pension legislation will be introduced shortly is true.
Hon. MURRAY MacLAREN (Minister of Pensions and National Health):
In reply to the hon. member's question I may say that a bill will be brought down this session containing amendments to the Pensions Act.
NEW ZEALAND BUTTER On the orders of the day:
Mr. THOMAS REID (New Westminster):
I should like to ask the Minister of Trade and Commerce (Mr. Stevens) whether he is prepared now to answer the question I directed to him last Thursday.
Hon. H. H. STEVENS (Minister of Trade and Commerce):
What was the question to
which my hon. friend refers?
Mr. REID:
I will read the question as it appears in Hansard for Thursday last:
Have any representations been made to him by any dairymen's associations or other interests in British Columbia in connection with the increased sale of New Zealand butter at [Mr. Speaker.!
prices which it is claimed will be disastrous to the farmers of British Columbia? If so, what steps have been taken to protect the dairymen?
Mr. STEVENS:
Representations have
been made and all reasonably adequate steps have been taken.
On the orders of the day: Mr. CAMERON R. MeINTOSH (North Battleford): I should like to direct a question to the Prime Minister (Mr. Bennett). In view of the further representations which were made last week by representatives of the western pools in regard to a national wheat marketing board I should like to ask the Prime Minister if he has any additional information to give the house beyond that which he gave on Monday February 13.
Right Hon. R. B. BENNETT (Prime Minister) :
I have advised the representatives of the pools that the government has no intention of setting up a national wheat marketing board at this session.
On the orders of the day:
Mr. THOMAS REID (New Westminster):
I should like to direct a question to the Minister of Justice (Mr. Guthrie) based on a communication which has just reached me with regard to some trouble in the New Westminster penitentiary. I wonder if the Minister of Justice has any report on the matter.
Hon. HUGH GUTHRIE (Minister of Justice):
I have had no recent information of any trouble at all in that penitentiary. Some three or four weeks ago I received a report that a disturbance had been planned, at all events, involving some seven or eight prisoners, but nothing serious developed although I may tell my hon. friend that I have received warnings from outside the penitentiary that an effort is being made to stir up trouble there. That came to me through an intercepted communication from outside, and it was back about the beginning of January. No trouble of any kind has occurred there so far.