Mr FORDE (Capricornia) .- As this and the succeeding bills are intended to validate the collection of tariff and excise duties up to February, 1938, T do not intend at this stage to say much about them, because I hope that, within a month or two, I may have to say a good deal about them from the other side of the table. We may then find the present Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. White) adopting quite a different attitude from his present one. He will probably then be a keen critic of what the government of the day proposes in the way of an adequate protectionist policy for the benefit of the secondary and primary industries of Australia. In view of the fact that we are now in the last two days of the session, I shall reserve what I have to say until after the elections.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill read a second time, and reported from committee without amendment or debate; report adopted.

Bill - by leave - read a third time.