STATE FUNERAL FOR THE LATE MR JIM FRASER - STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR JOHN GORTON
FOR PRESS:-3 APR 197O M. No 46/ 1970
STATE FUNERAL FOR THE LATE MR. JIM FRASER
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Johni Gorton
The Government has decided that, as a special case, the
late Mr. Jim Fraser should be given a State Funeral.
Mr. Fraser has held for 19 years electorate which
is in many ways unique.
He was the only elected member of Parliamenit to vh om
people of the A. C. T. could turn for assistance and advice in local
problems of all kinds.
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