FOR PIESS: PM No. 31/ 1959.
EXPANSION OF BELL BAY ALUMINIUM PLANT.
Joint Statement by. the Prime Mnister and the Premier of Tasmania,
In a joint statement today, the Prime Minister and the
Premier of Tasmania, Mr. Reece, announced agreement upon a detailed
plan to increase the capacity of the Bell Bay aluminium works from
12,000 tons to 16,000 tons of aluninium ingots a year, at a cost
of approximately œ 3 million.
The plan for expansion was recomrnended to the two
Governments by the Australian Aluminium Production Commission.

ADDRESS TO CONVOCATION
BY THE PRIME MINISTER ( THE RT. HON. R. G. MENZIES9 Q C M. P.)
AT A GRADUATESt EVENING IN THE~ GREAT HALL OF THE UNIVERSITY* 6F
SYDNEY, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1959.
I am much honoured by your invitation to deliver what you
are pleased to describe as the Annual " Oration" to Graduates of
this great and famous University,,
I was flattered some little time back to be made one of
your graduates causa honoris an agreeable expression which in
one blow gets rid of th obligation to pass examinations and

STRICT EMBARGO FOR FRIDAY MORNING'S PAPERS.
MOUNT ISA RAILWAY.
ARTICLE BY THE PRIME MINISTER ( MR. MENZIES).
I have gathered from practiially all of my Queensland
Commonwealth Parliamentary colleagues, and also from some
communications I have personally received, that there is a great
deal of propaganda current in Queensland to the effect that the
Commonwealth Government. has'not-made genuine efforts to secure
the financing of the new rehabilitated railway; that, on the
contrary, it has impeded the project; and that it has no proper

SPEECH BY THE PRI4 MINISTER, TEE RT. HON. R. G. MENZIES H
AT ST. MARK'S LIBRARY, CANBERRA, ON. 27TH AUGUST, 1959C.
My Lord Bishop and Ladies and Gentlemen:
I like that little touch of my friend Sutcliffe's about
another Prime Minister. ( Laughter.) There is a certain delightful
ambiguity about it; but if he is, In fact, intending to give me a
guarantee, as a very important civil servant, that I will still be
in office next year, I would be delighted to have it. But each
time I open the paper and I read about the latest uproar that has

REPCRT TO THE NATION
TALK ON GTV9 BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. G. MENZIES, QOCO, MVP.
AUGUST, 1959.
I am delighted to have the opportunity of saying something
to you about this last journey of mine around the world. I know
there are people who think that every visit around the world or
anywhere else by a politician is a species of holiday jaunt. I
can assure you that they are not. Mine was in fact the businest
journey I have ever had. I had almost no leisure time but I
found it much more exciting because in the course of my journey

SPEACN If THE P1RIM MINISTP& THlE RT. HON.
1* Q. MEIRS AT THlE OPINING Sip cas
SONS NIMIL DINGS IRI 18? ULTAM
Sirw I always begtn by saying " irw because like my friend
Nr. YAlly I find that if I dont, I an bound to forget sombody -the
first thing I vant to establish with you Is a feeling of sympathy for
so, because when I have said a few words to you I hiave to proms a but-.
tona It's here. I take it for granted that In an efficient Andu try
of this kind It will work. ( Laughter) When one presses a button at

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.
SPEECH B3Y
Rt. Hon. R. G. MENZIES, Q. C.,
ON
BUDGET 1959-60.
[ Fromn the Parliamentary Debates," 20th August, 1959.]
Mr. MENZIES ( Kooyong-Prime Minister)
[ 8.01.-Mr. Chairman, the Budget
speech delivered by my colleague the Treasurer
( Mr. Harold Holt) emphasized at the
beginning and throughout and at the end
that the twin purposes of this statement of
financial policy for the year were expansion
and stability. I want to repeat that
expression-expansion and stability-because

13th August, 1959.

It is no part of my intention to inflict upon the House a species of travel talk. Nor do I desire to make a comprehensive statement on current foreign affairs, some aspects of which, such as the events in Laos, are engaging our close and anxious attention.

What I want to do as concisely as possible is to speak of those large problems with which I concerned myself during my overseas visit, of some of the leading personalities and of my conversations and impressions.

P. M. No. 29/ 1959.
MEETING OF LEADERS.
Statement b the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies C. H., Q. C., MP.
" This is very good news. Nothing but benefit can come
from meetings between the heads of government of the two most
powerful countries in the world," Mr. Menzies said today.
" The exchange of visits will not only reduce the current
tension but will also bring President Eisenhower and Mr.
Khruschev into direct and, one may hope, personal friendly
relations which will render a subsequent summit meeting easier

PRIME INISTER'S T. V. " FACE THE NATION" 2ND AUGUST, 1959
QUESTION: Mir. Menzies, after your recent visit to The Hague you
re-affirmed Australia's support for Dutch sovereignty in West New
Guinea. The Indonesians seemed to take this as a change of front
on the part of the Australian Government. Is that so?
MR. MENZIESNo, it is not. You may remember that after the
visit, the very happy visit, I thought, by Dr. Subandrio to
Australia, I made a speech in Parliament in which I indicated what
our policy was in the light of our discussions with him. Now it