FOR P. RESS: P. M. No. 112/ 1966
PRIME MINISTER'S REPLY TO MR. BARTON
The Prime Minister this afternoon sent the following reply to
Mr. Gordon Barton in Sydney:
" I have your telegran; despatched on Sunday, which
reached me at my Melbourne office this morning. Frankly, I find
a~ n ' Alice in W/ onderland' quality about its timing and its terms which
makes it difficult for me to regard it as intended other than for
propaganda purposes. " It invites me personally to make fundamental changes

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FOR PRESS: P M. No. 111/ 1966
MEETING BETWEEN THE PRIME MINISTER OF
AUSTRALIA AND THE PRIME MINISTER OF
MA LTA
The Prime Minister, Mr. Holt, and Dr. Borg Olivier, the
Prime Minister of Malta met in Melbourne on Saturday.
They were able to renew their friendly contacts and to discuss
together matters of common Interest in their countries. More than 65, CC
settlers from Malta have come to Australia since the second World War.

CITIZENS' DINNER
MELBOURNE
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt
3RD NOVEMBER, 1966
Mr. Chairman, My Lord Mayor, Mr. Perrett, Organizing Genius Noel
Curphey, Distinguished Gentlemen I don't say " Guests" because I'm
not too sure about that
I suspect you've been mulcted as most of us have this sporting
week here in Melbourne. But thank you very warmly indeed for the way in
which you have not only greeted the toast, and if I may, Mr. Perrett, I
would like to say how much I thank you for your generous words and for

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SPEECH BY
The Rt. Hon. HAROLD HOLT, M. P.,
ON
MANILA SUMMIT CONFERENCE
Ministerial Statement
[ From. the.." Parliamentary Debates," 27th October 1966]
Mr. HAROLD HOLT ( Higgins-Prime
Minister).-by leave-Mr. Speaker, I report
to the House upon the Manila Summit
Conference from which I have just
returned. Following the Conference I have
made some comment in Manila and also
to representatives of Press, radio and television
who -were awaiting me on my return
last night at Mascot -Airport. All this has.

IMANILA CONFERENCE
STATEMENT JY THE PRIMIE MINISTER, IR. HAROLD HOLT
AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE CONFERENCE OCTOBER, 1966
The Australian Prime I. inister, Mr. Harold Holt, said tonight
that he was deli; hted with the outcome of the Manila Conference.
He said he would not have thought it practicable to reach such
' eneral agreement on a host of matters in the time available. It
had ) een a highly suc essful conference and the results were to be
found registered' in three important and significant documents.

TRESS, RADIO AND TELEVISION CONEIRENCE GIVEN BY
THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. LHAROLD HOLT AT TOWNSVILLE
( A: BERLEY AIR FORCE BASE)
® i 23rd October, 1966
HR. H OLT This has clearly been a most successful visit anC: far
exceeded my own bright expectations of it when I knew it was to
come about. The Australian people have responded magnificently
and, of course, both for the President and Mrs. Johnson this has
been a great personal triumph. I am sure. mQet Australians feel
that they have a much more realistic r~ pSrj ltR~ se wonderful

23RD OCTOBER, 1966.

No Australian Prime Minister can visit the Philippines without recallin with gratitude and admiration the heroic resistance and courage of te people of the Philippines in the Second World  War. It was from the Philippines that General MacArthur came to Australia to base the recovery made by the Allies from their early reversals.

P. M. No. 110/ 1966

PRESIDENTIAL VISIT

The Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt, has sent the following telegram to each of the Premiers of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland

P. M. No. 109/ 1966

Mr. Holt has sent the following message to the British Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Wilson, from his aircraft en route to the Manila talks

"I HAVE BEEN DEEPLY DISTRESSED AT THE SAD AND GRAVE NEWS OF THE TRAGEDY AT ABERFAN. MY COLLEAGUES AND I AND ALL AUSTRALIANS FEEL SINCERELY FOR THE BEREAVED AND OUR HEARTFELT SYMPATHY IS WITH THEM, WITH YOU AS PRIME MINISTER, AND WITH ALL THE BRITISH NATION AT THIS TIME"

CANBERRA,
23rd October, 1966.