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Menzies, Robert

Period of Service: 19/12/1949 - 26/01/1966
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Release Date:
07/01/1966
Release Type:
Media Release
Transcript ID:
1220
Document:
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  • Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon
For Press: P.M. No. 3/1966 - New Deputy High Commisioner in the United Kingdom - Statement by the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies

FOR PRESS:

PM No.3/1966

The Secretary of the Department of Supply, Mr. J. L. Knott, C.B.E.,has been appointed Deputy High Commissioner for Australia in the United Kingdom.

The new Deputy High Commissioner will take up his post in London shortly, succeeding Sir Allen Brown, C.B.E., who is now Australian Ambassador to Japan.

In offering this appointment to Mr. Knott, tHe Government took the opportunity of expressing its admiration for hia outstandingly successful work as Secretary of the Department of Supply during the past six years. In that time the Department has had to deal with a number of important developments in the scientific and defence fields. Mr. Knott has led the Department most capably, and on his record the Government has full confidence in appointing Mr. Knott to this important position in London.

CANBERRA,

7th January, 1966.

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