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Transcripts from the Prime Ministers of Australia

Menzies, Robert

Period of Service: 19/12/1949 - 26/01/1966
Release Date:
03/02/1961
Release Type:
Media Release
Transcript ID:
265
Document:
00000265.pdf 1 Page(s)
Released by:
  • Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon
FOR PRESS : STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER. SWEARINING - IN OF ADMINISTRATOR

FOR PRESS. Statement by the Prime Minister.
SEARINING-IN OF ADMrIISTRATOR.
The Prime Minister ( Mr. Menzies) announced this evening
that His Excellency General Sir Dallas Brooks, Governor of
Victoria, who holds a dormant Commission from Her Majesty the
Queen, will be sworn in as Administrator of the Government of the
Commonwealth of Australia at Parliament House, Ganberra, tomorrow
Saturday, th February, 1961, at p. m. The prescribed
oaths will be administered by the Chief Justice of the High Court
of Australia The Rt. Hon. Sir Owen Dixon.
CANBERRA. 3rd February, 1961. A

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