The Ministerfor Trade and Customs:

The Minister for Trade and Customs asks:

Does Mr Deakin think that section 19 is sufficient to compel under the term 'office accommodation' the supply of office furniture?

Section 19 of the Customs Act 1901 provides that:

Every wharf-owner shall provide to the satisfaction of the Collector suitable office accommodation on his wharf for the exclusive use of the officer employed at the wharf . . .

The term 'office accommodation' is somewhat vague. I hardly think that a bare room is 'suitable office accommodation'-but what precisely can be claimed under the section it is impossible to say.

[Vol. 2, p. 504]