Mr. Blanchette:

1 and 2. At the request of a senior official, permission may be granted to a departmental employee to use a motor car for the performance of a specific duty when that duty is sufficiently urgent or important to require such transportation.

3, 4 and 5. No service vehicle is attached to Government House, but in accordance with long standing practice a truck is made available on rare occasions such as an official visit when additional transportation for baggage is required. In such cases this is arranged by the director of supplies and transport at army headquarters.

1. Are plans and specifications completed for the new post office building in Winnipeg, Manitoba?

2. If not, When are plans and specifications to be completed?

3. What is to be the type of construction?

4. Is Tyndall stone to be used or specified?

5. Have tenders been called for construction?

6. If not, at what date are tenders expected to be called?

1. No.

2. Late this year.

3. Structural steel and reinforced concrete floors, brick walls with some stone trim.

4. Specification will call for Canadian limestone.

5. No.

6. Late this year.

1. What department is responsible for the printing of cheques on behalf of the various departments, boards, commissions, companies and other official agencies of the federal government?

2. From January 1 to December 31, 1952, how many cheques have been issued on behalf of each of the said departments, boards, commissions, companies and other agencies?

3. How many of the above-mentioned cheques were printed (a) in French only; (b) in English only; (c) in both official languages?

1. Is it the policy of the federal government to purchase photographic equipment and supplies for the use of the armed services on a centralized or a decentralized basis?

2. Are tenders called for in respect of such purchases?

3. What companies supplied photographic equipment and supplies in 1951 for the use of the Department of National Defence, and to what amount in the case of each such company, in that year?

1. Have any persons leased land from each of the following reservations in Saskatchewan, since 1945:

(a) Duck Lake-109: Beardy's 96, Duck Lake; One Arrow's 95, Duck Lake; Okemasis 97, Duck

(b) File Hills-Qu'Appelle-114: Little Black Bear

84. Balcarres; Ikanese 82, Balcarres; Starblanket 83, Balcarres; Peepeekisis 81, Lorlie; Muscow-petung 80, Cupar; Piapot 75, Cupar; Assiniboine 76, Sintaluta; Pasqua 79, Muscow; Standing Buffalo 78, Muscow. __ _ , ,

(c) Crooked Lake-108: White Bear 70, Carlyle; Cowessess 73, Broadview; Sakimay 74, Broadview; Shesheep 74A, Broadview; Kahkewistahaw 72, Grenfell; Ochapowace 71, Grenfell.

2. If so, what are the names of such persons?

3. How much acreage was leased during this period to each person?

4. What were the terms of the lease in the case of each person?

Mr. Harris:

Return tabled.

1. Have wharves in Newfoundland been transferred by the Department of Public Works to the Department of Transport?

2. If so, how many such wharves have been transferred and where are they located?

3. Is it proposed to transfer other wharves in Newfoundland to the Department of Transport?

4. If so, how many and where are the present locations of same?

5. Is it proposed to turn over the wharf at Portugal Cove to the Department of Transport?

1. Was a contract awarded to Design Craft Limited, of Toronto, for the dismantling of a booth and new construction at the Canadian international trade fair?

2. If so, what were the date, nature, terms and price of the said contract?

3. Were tenders called for the contractual work and, if so, how were they advertised?

4. If tenders were called, who submitted tenders and in what amounts?

5. What specific work was done under the contract?

6. What was paid for such work?

7. Were any used materials salvaged from the previous structure, and how were they disposed of? If they were sold, who purchased them, and what was the price paid for them, and who received credit for this price?

1. Has the federal Department of Labour a memorandum or document of recent date giving information as to provincial labour standards in Canada, including (a) statutory school-leaving ages; (b) minimum ages for employment; (c) maximum hours of work; (d) minimum rates of pay; (e) fair rates of pay; (f) workmen's compensation provisions, etc.?

2. If so, what are the details of the information contained in any such memorandum or document?

Mr. Cote (Verdun-La Salle):

Return tabled.

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