A, PRESS CONFERENCE GIVEN BY THE PRIME MINISTER,
THE RT. HON. R. G. MENZIES ON FRIDAY, 13TH
NOVEMBER, 1959 at 11 A. M.
QUESTE ON: Can you tell us Sir, when* you expect the new Governor-
General to reach Australia?
PRIME MINISTER: Yes, early in February. He would be here well
ahead of the beginning of the 1960 Session so that he
will be able to open it.
QUESTION: Any date fixed for this, Sir? The opening.
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, no. But I mean normally one assumes that it
will be some time in February, but it may be late in
February.

STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
CONCERNING THE APPOINTMENT OF THE NEi GOVERNOR-GENERAL.
THURSDAY. 12th NOVIm'BER. 1959.
As Honourable Members know, our present Governor-
General, Field Marshal Sir William Slim, will be returning to
England towards the end of January next after what we all feel
to be a very distinguished term of office in our country. Before
he leaves we will have an opportunity of saying to him some of
those things that are in our hearts and minds and I will therefore
not anticipate them tonight.

CANCELLATION OF OVERSEAS VISIT BY SENATOR
THE HON. W. H. SPOONER, M. M.
STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER.
A visit overseas this month by the Minister for
National Development, Senator Spooner, had been cancelled, the
Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, said today.
Mr. Menzies was commenting on a news item cabled from
Bangkok that Senator Spooner might visit Thailand later this
month. Mr. Menzies said: " Several South East Asian countries
have extended invitations to the Australian Government for a
senior Australian Minister to visit them.

P. M. No. 4295

The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, announced today that the United Kingdom has offered for immediate competition by Australian students post-graduate scholarships to institutions of higher learning in the United Kingdom.

Scholarships are offered under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, under which governments of Commonwealth countries will provide scholarships and fellowships tenable in their own countries by men and women from
other parts of the Commonwealth.

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, THE RT. HON.
R. G. MENZIES AT DINNER IN HONOUR OF THE
DELE GATES TO THE COIM'MONWEPL TH PARLIAMENTARY
ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE CANBERRA, 2ND
NOVEMBER, 1359
Sir, we have all this rather neatly worked out; I begin
by saying Mr Chairman, Your Grace, My Lords, Your Excellencies,
and Ladies and Gentlemen a form of address which I find
rather tedious because it always reminds me of the fact that in
London when this happens the announcement is made by a gentleman
in a red coat, and one gentleman in a red coat, a very highly

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P. M. No. 44/ 199
MR. MENZIES TO VISIT COCOS ISLANDS
STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER, THE RT. HON. R. G. MENZIES
The Prime Minister ( the Right Honourable R. G. Menzies) announced
today that, on the return journey to Australia after his
visit to Indonesia and Malaya he proposed to pay a short visit
( December 12th-13th) to the Cocos Islands an Australian external
territory which he had not visited previously.
Mr. Menzies said that he was looking forward to visiting
the installations there and meeting the Australian people who

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER THE RT. HON.
R. G. MENZIES AT THE COMM~ lvONWEA~ LTH PARLIAMENTARY
CONFERENCE CANBERRA, THURSDAY, 29TH
OCT6BER3 1,959
Your Grace, my Lords, Your IZxcellencies, Ladies and
Gentlemen: My task is a very pleasant one and, you will be
relieved to know, a very short one. My task is to propose the
health of our visitors, and in doing so I will be supported by
Dr. Evatt, representing the Opposition. That simple statement
perhaps explains almost all that has to be explained about the

P. M. No. 4+ 3/ 1959
MT. ISA RA LWAY
Statement by the Prime Minister
In August I concluded a published statement concerning
the actions of teCommonwealth in relation to the Mt. Isa
railway project with these words:
" All that need be said at this stage is that the Queensland
Government and my owm are both active and co-operative, since
we are both enthusiastic about the project, and will do all
that we can to see it completed as a whole, in the interests
of both mineral and pastoral development in Northern Queensland."

COPY OF LETTER FROM THiE PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND
TO THE PRIME MINISTER DATED 28TH OCTOBER, 1959
My dear Prime Minister, My Government gratefully accepts the offer
to finance the construction of the Mount Isa Railway Project as
outlined in your letter of the 26th instant.
In order that there be no delays in
reaching final agreement on all points, we have already commenced
to prepare the details as set out in paragraphs one to three in
the annexure to your letter. At this stage, all our advices are