FOR PESS: P2M8./ N1O905.9 .
DAIRYING INDUSTRY COMMITTEE.
STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER, RT. HON. R. G. MENZISC. H.. Q. C. MP.
In my last Policy Speech I foreshadowed the appointment
of a strong committee to enquire into the various aspects of the
Australian Dairying Industry. The reason for this announcement
was that the Government felt and feels that the problems of the
dairying industry need to be objectively examined with a view to
evolving policies calculated to ensure efficiency and economic

FOR PE. NSoS. : 2P7./ 1M9 59.
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION
APPOINTMENT OF PART-TIME COMMISSIONERS.
Statement by the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies,
The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, announced today the
names of the four part-time Commissioners who, with the full-time
Chairman, Sir Leslie Martin, will constitute the
Australian Universities Commission.
They are:-
Professor N. S. Bayliss, Victorian Rhodes Scholar at Oxford
1927-30, Professor of Chemistry in the University of
Western Australia since 1938. He has also been Chairman

PRESS CONFERENCE GIVEN BY THE PRIME MINISTER RT. HO. L. MEZIS,
AT CANBERRA ON THURSDAY, 9TH TULY,_ 99 AT
PRIME MINISTER: I think perhaps the best thing for me to do is
just to talk a little bit about the various matters that
I have had to look at in the course of my journey. If
I show any signs of going to sleep half way through, will
you give me a nudge? I have averaged about 3 hours a
night sleep for the last eight days when I visited the
tropics. Theie was no conference this year of a formal kind

FOR PESNSo:. P2.6M/ 1.9 59.
THE WORLD REFUGEE YEAR.
Statement by the Acting Prime Minister, IRt. Hon. J. McEwen, M. P.
" This year will be known as the World Refugee Year.
This Sunday, 28th June, has been set aside as a day of prayer
for the refugee and for the dedication of the concept of the
World Refugee Year." Stating this today the Acting Prime Minister,
Mr. McEwen, asked Australians to remember the refugee in their
prayers. " The concept of the World Refugee Year originated in the
United Kingdom in April 1958, when attention was drawn to the

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 2/ 1959.
EXPERT COMMITTEE ON COAL
Statement by the Acting Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. J. McEwen, M. P.
The Commonwealth Government has decided to establish
an Expert Committee to advise it on all aspects of research into
the uses of coal. This decision is in line with the announcement
by the Government in its Policy Speech that it would assist the
expansion of such research. Arrangements for setting up the
Committee have been worked out between my colleagues Mr. Casey

FOR PESS: P. M. No. 24/ 1959.
COMMlvONWEALTH CONFER~ ENCE ON EDUCATION,
ENGLAND--29TH JULY.
Statement by the Acting Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. J. McEwe, . P.
The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. McEwen, announced today
the names of the Australian delegates to the Commonwealth
Conference on Education to begin in London on 7th July and continue
at Oxford from 15th to 29th July.
Mr. McEwen said the delegation would be led by Sir Allen
Brown, Deputy High Commissioner for Australia in the
United Kingdom. Members of the delegation who would travel from

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 23/ 1959.
CONFERENCE WITH QUEENSLAND PREMIER AND TREASURER
Statement by the Acting Prime Minister, Rt. Hon, J. McEwen. M. P.
The Acting Prime Minister ( Mr. McEwen) and the Treasurer
( Mr. Holt) today conferred with the Queensland Premier ( Mr. Nicklin)
and Treasurer ( Mr. Hiley) on the proposed Mt. Isa Railway Loan.
After the conference Mr. McEwen said the situation had
no element of urgency which would not permit awaiting the return
of the Prime Minister Mr. Menzies) to whom he and Mr. Holt

AUSTRALIA CLUB
Speeches at the Dinner held at the
Dorchester Hotel in honour of the
RT. HON. R. G. MENZIES, C. H.,
Q. C. ( Prime Minister of the Commonwealth
of Australia) on Monday
22nd June, 1959 with introductory
remarks by H. R. H. DUKE OF
GLOUCESTER, K. G. ( President of
the Australia Club), who was in
the Chair
SPEAKERS: THE RT. HON. HAROLD MACMILLAN, M. P.
proposing the toast of Australia
and
THE RT. HON. R. G. MENZIES, Q. C.
who responded
37 Dover Street,
London, W. I.
July, 1959.

P. M. -No.-22/ I951) 1IXPREMIER-
S CONFERENCE AND LOAN CO-NCIL
Statement by__ the A~ cti~ png Prime minister, Rt. Hon. J. McEwen M. P.
This conference comes about in two ways. First of all,
at this time or about this time in every year the matter of the
State Tax Reimbursements Grants and Loan allocations is decided.
But9 in addition, the Commonwealth has said that it has undertaken
to make some general re-examination of Commonwealth-State
financial relations. This was said in the policy speechgand the

e. g. FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 21/ 1959.
DEPUTATION ON WAGES CLAIMS
Statement by the Acting Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. J. M~ wn M. P.
The Acting Prime Minister Mr. McExwn, received a
deputation this morning from the Australian Council of Trade Unionsq
the High Council of Public Service Organisations, the Council of
Professional Associations and the Australian Council of Salaried
and Professional Associations.
The deputation urged three things:
First, that the Government should direct the Public