1. What are the names of the persons employed in the Income Tax office in the city of St. John, New Brunswick?

2. How many employees have been taken on in this office since December 6, 1921, what are their names and date of appointment?

3. Does this department come under the Civil Service Commission?

Mr. LEGER:

That is right.

Mr. LEGER:

There are some sections of our part of the country in which experimental or demonstration farms should be established in order to encourage the farmers. We have an experimental farm in the extreme west of the province, but it is some hundred miles from the shore counties, where there is a large area of great agricultural value. Farming is certainly the backbone of the country and it should be encouraged in every possible way. I would invite the minister's attention, therefore, to the case of my province. We are certainly not doing as well as we should, due to the fact that in some sections we have no encouragement whatever in the way of experimental farms. The illustration stations may be very good, but they serve only the

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district immediately surrounding them, which is a very small area indeed. I would invite the minister to visit our part of the country and see the conditions with respect to farming there; he might be encouraged to do something in this connection. As I have intimated, the western part of the province is well looked after, but the eastern part, along the north shore, has been neglected. I would ask the minister to give this matter his serious consideration.

Mr. LEGER:

The minister says that there are in New Brunswick one experimental farm and twelve illustration stations. What are the locations of these stations, and where is the experimental farm?

1. Did the Department of Public Works purchase a motor boat during the years from 1911 to 1921, for the use of the foreman on the repair works at the North and South Beaches, Richibucto, Kent County, New Brunswick?

2. If so, is it still owned by the Government, and in whose possession is it at present?

3. Has this boat been disposed of by the Government?

4. If so, to whom and on what date?