FOR PRESS P. M. No. 15/ 1967
VISIT BY PRINCESS ALEXANDRA
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt
It has been announced in London that Princess Alexandra
and her husband, Mr. Angus Ogilvy, will make a private visit to Australia
beginning on 24th February and lasting for about a week. In the course of
the visit, Mr. Ogilvy will be attending to business interests in Australia.
Princess Alexandra and Mr. Ogilvy will already have made an official visit
to Burma before coming to Australia.
Although Princess Alexandra's visit will be private in

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 14/ 1967
MEMBERSHIP OF THE BOARD FOR ASSISTANCE TO
AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt
The Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt, announced today
that following on the Commonwealth Government's decision to provide
assistance to enable Australian composers to make their works known,
arrangements have been completed for the setting-up of an Advisory Board
to administer this aid. The Membership of the Board is as follows
Sir Bernard Heinze, Chairman
Professor F. A. Callaway, Professor of Music,

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 13/ 1967
PREMIERS' CONFERENCE AND LOAN COUNCIL
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt
Arrangements have now been completed with the State
Premiers for meetings of the Premiers' Conference and the Australian
Loan Council to be held in Canberra on 16th and 17th February.
I shall preside at the Premiers' Conference and Mr.
McMahon, as Treasurer, will be Chairman of the Loan Council
CANBERRA, 27th January, 1967.

AUSTRALIA DAY LUNCHEON
ROYALE BALLROOM, LELBOURNE 26TH JANXUARY, 1967.
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. HAROLD HOLT
MR. HOLT:
Mr. Chairman Your Excellencies Lady Delacombe Distinguished
guests, and this includes my Parliamentary and Ministerial
Colleagues and Ladies and Gentlemen:
First, Sir Norman I must congratulate you, and I do so
on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, for the work that you
and your colleagues are doing to bring a wider and deeper
observarce of this National Birthday of ours and it must be

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 10/ 1967
VISTT BY SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
COMMONWEALTH AFFAIR-S
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt
The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, the
Right Honourable Herbert Bowden, C. B. M. will visit Australia
for about one week next mouth.
Accompanied by his wife, he will arrive on the 19th
February in the course of a tour of a number of Commonwealth countries
in this part of the world. While in Australia, he will visit Canberra,
Sydney and Melnurne. I am very glad Mr. Bowden will be coming to Australia.

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 11/ 1967
EXCHANGE OF MESSAGES BETWEEN INDIA
AND AUSTRALIA
Australia and India, both of whom celebrate their
National Day on the 26th January, today exchanged congratulatory
messages. The message from the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Holt,
to the Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, read
" On behalf of my colleagues in the Government
and all Australians, I extend to you and thepeople of India
our sincere good wishes on your celebration of Republic
Day. Our countries are closely linked in sentiment

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 12/ 1967
AUSTRALIA DAY CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulatory Australia Day messages have been arriving
in Canberra today from Heads of Government around the world.
By the end of the afternoon, greetings had been received
from:-Canada, China, India, Malagasy, Singapore,
Uganda, Viet Nam, Malta, Burma,
Indonesia
In his message, Prime Minister Ky of Miet Nam said
" On the occasion of the Australian Day, I should
like to ccnvey to you, Mr. Prime Minister, my heartiest
congratulations and my best wishes for the prosperity of the

FOR PRESS P. M. No. 9/ 1967
MR. HOLT'S FIRST YEAR AS PRIME MINISTER
From press enquiries received today, it seems that some
of you are interested in facts and figures to background a story about Mr.
Holt's first year as Prime Minister ( based on the anniversary of the
swearing-in of the First Holt Ministry on Australia Day last year).
For those preparing an item on this subject, the following
might be of interest
* In his first year of office, Mr, Holt has flown some 125, 000
miles in the course of his duties,

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 8/ 1967
AUSTRALIA DAY MESSAGE
From the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt
Today we Australians celebrate the 179th anniversary
of our founding. Ours is not a long story as the history of many other
nations is counted but in that time we have evolved our distinctive
national identity and character. We have been assisted to do so by our
heritage of British democracy and the cultures of European civilisation.
We owe much to the courage, the industry, the enterprise and the endurance
of earlier generations of Australians.

OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETAR Y TO THE
PRIME MINISTER,
PARLIAMENT HOUSE,
CANBERRA. 24th January, 1967.
PRIME MINISTER'S MOVEMENTS
The Prime Minister is returning to Melbourne at
lunch time today and will be working from his Melbourne office for
the rest of the week. Among other things, he will be preparing for his New
Zealand visit, ( he leaves for Wellington on Thursday week, 2nd February)
and on Thursday of this week, he will speak at an Australia Day luncheon
in Melbourne. Mr. Holt plans to spend the long weekend at Portsea