FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 55/ 1969
ECONOMIC CONSULTATIONS
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
The Government began its pre-Budget series of
economic consultations in Canberra today.
Ministers conferred with national organisations
in three separate groups primary industry, manufacturing
industry and commerce. The consultations have again proved valuable in
providing Ministers at first hand with the views of those
directly engaged in commerce and industry. This will be of
considerable assistance to the Government in its consideration

FOR PRESS: P. M. No 54/ 1969
VISIT BY THEIR ROYAL HIGH1TL-SLS TEE XT) U( E AlD
DECIIS 01' KEITT 1fLOG AL'., L i'PR
THE AUSTTRALIAN CATITAL TECITOIY
SATURDAY 9 AUGUST
3.45 p. m. Ceremonial Arrival at R. A. A. F. Fairbairn
Liet by The Governor-General and
Lady Hasluck
The : Pri.., e 1inister and
ifrs. Gorton
Guard of Honour Royal Salute
Artillory S& lu'e 21 guns
Inspection of Guard of Honour and Band
Leave for Governwciiu House
EveningI-No en-agements
Attend St. John's Church, Reid

69/ 1f03
ANNUAL LIBERAL PARTY RALLY
WA. DIVISION
PERTH, WA. 7 JULY 1969
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr John Gorton
Mr President, Parliamentary Colleagues and Delegates:
It is an honour for me to technically open this Conference
of West Australian Liberals.
As you say, Sir, I have been here, I think on five I am
told on five I think on six occasions since becoming Prime Minister.
I will certainly be back before the elections and while the elections are
on and, given your assistance, I would expect to be back as Prime

FOR PRESS PM. No. 53/ 196)
ASSASSINATION OF MR TOM MBOYA
Comment by the Prime Minister, Mr John Gorton
Australia deeply regrets the violent death of Mr Tom
Mboya. He was a dynamic and dedicated leader of his people.
Africa can ill afford to lose men of his calibre.
CANBERRA, 6 July 1969

EMBARGO: 9. 30 p. m. Sunday_ 6 July/
" 1THIS WEEK"
TELEVISION INTERVIEW GIVEN BY THE PRIME
MINISTER, MR. JOHN GORTON, AT HSV-7,
MELBOURNE
( Recorded on 4 July for replay on 6 July 1969)
Interviewers: Geoff Raymond
John Boland
Q. Well, Mr. Prime Minister, we will be dividing our
questions into more or less two parts. I will be starting off with
foreign affairs and then John will come in, particularly on domestic
affairs. But first of all, I would like to make one broad-based question
on Asia. How do you see our role in Asia today?

69/ 102
YOUNG LIBERAL RALLY
Caulfield Town Hall, Caulfield, Victoria 4 JULY 1969
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
It is a great pleasure to be introduced by a President who
is obviously a scholar and a gentleman, and who has very great insight
into my own mind sufficient to enable him to write what I actually fee!
about the activities of the Young Liberals.
And it is nice to be here at a period which was described
by your President as a period of change. Because, you know, " the times

0 JUL W9
GREAT SYNAGOGUE LUNCHEON
SYDNEY, N. S. W. JUNE 1969
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
It is pleasant to be here and to talk to you at this luncheon;
to talk to you as Australians of the Jewish faith. I have long believed
your actions in the past and the present show that your community is not
an alien community any more than those who attend St. Andrew's Day
Dinners, or those perhaps more closely akin to my own forbears on one
side who wear green on St. Patrick Day. Mind you, I'm Church of

FOR PRESS PM. No. 52/ 1969
FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR DARTMOUTH DAM
The Prime Minister and Treasurer met with representatives
of the Governments of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia in
Canberra today to discuss the financial arrangements for the building of the
proposed dam near Dartmouth on the Mitta Mitta River.
Agreement had been reached by the responsible State Ministers
earlier in the year regarding other conditions that would apply in relation
to this proposal. But agreement to proceed with the project was subject to

FIVE POWER CONFERENGJ! ." C
Parliament House, Canberra. K
19 june, 1969
OPENI: NG ADDRESS BY THE PRIME MiNISTER-, MIR jOIN GORTON
Gentlemen: What am doing now is outside the Conference proper but
it is something which gives me great satisfaction to do. That is, in the
first place, to have the opportunity to welcome here in Canberra, the
capital of Australia, distinguished Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers
and Defence Ministers and those who have come with them, and to say
that we are fully conscious of the honour which is done us by your travelling

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 51/ 1969
FLOREY MEMORIAL FUND
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
The Commonwealth Government is to make a
contribution of $ 10, 000 to the fund which is being established
to perpetuate the memory of Lord Florey.
The Florey Memorial Fund is being sponsored
jointly by the Councils of the Royal Society and the Australian
National University, with appeals in Australia and Britain.
It is proposed that the memorial should take
the form of post-doctoral visiting fellowships between Australia