Mr. CAMPBELL:

There are many areas in which there is no evidence ,of minerals, and it seems to me that conditions are only complicated as a result of these surveys. When you survey land a long distance from the railway, someone immediately files a claim for some of that land and gets possession of it. You then have a small settlement, and immediately there comes a demand for a branch railway. This survey work should be dispensed with entirely in the present state of the country.

Mr. CAMPBELL:

I second the motion.

Mr. CAMPBELL:

Is an experimental farm going to be established at Can ora, Saskatchewan? A few years ago the department purchased a quarter section there for that purpose; but for some reason nothing was done. The people in that district are anxious to know whether an experimental farm is going to be established there.

Mr. CAMPBELL:

Before the minister answers, I would remind him of the figures

I gave a few minutes ago of 94 clerks engaged in statistical work, and costing altogether $125,250.

Mr. CAMPBELL:

I would like to add to what has been stated by the hon. member for Saskatoon (Mr. Evans) in regard to medical inspection on the other side of the Atlantic. I have a case on my hands now of a Scotch family, the members of which bought their tickets and checked their baggage about a year ago. After they had gone through the preliminaries and were ready to sail, a doctor stopped one of the children, a little, girl, on the ground that she was mentally deficient. These people had sold all their goods in order to put themselves in funds for the voyage, and as a result of the doctor's action they had to postpone their voyage, and go to work, boarding out all the time. After a year the doctor finally passed

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the girl, and the family are ready to come to Canada, but they have spent all their money and are unable to pay their passage. Surely there is something wrong with the machinery of inspection when a case like this can happen.