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Menzies, Robert

Transcript 1091

OPENING OF CHANNEL 10 TELEVISI. ON STATION
SYDNEY, N. S. W. -th APRIL3 1265
Speech by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon, Sir Robert Menzies.
It gives me quite a lot of pleasure to be associated with the
opening of your new Station. That is partly because your
Chairman and some of your Directors are very old friends of
mine, and their individuality guarantees that this will be a
highly, well-conducted Station.
There are other reasons, of course, for my pleasure. One is
that I think it is a very good thing for the future of television

Transcript 1090

LUNCHTIME RALL1, LIBERAL r'A1LTY OF N. S. W.
SYDN'EY TO' 4N HALL. SYDNEY APRIL, 196 j
Speech by the-Prime-Minister, the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Askin, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am delighted to find Mr. Askin in such robust form.
I said to him outside before we came in that I didn't have any
reason to believe that he would be defeated by his enemies.
What sometimes happens in our party is that one is defeated by
one's friends. Half-hearted people.
The first thing I want to do is to urge all of you to

Transcript 1089

CIVIC SERVICE, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
CHELTENHAM? VICTORIA 4+ TH PRIL, 1965
Speech by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies
Sir, Recently I was in London, I started off thinking I
was on holiday and I ended up by attending the funeral of the
greatest man of our time. I was very impressed by a number of
matters associated with it. For example, his body lay in state
itn Westminster Hall, Westminster Hall is the most famous building
: tn our history. It is very old. It was built by V. illiam Rufus.

Transcript 1088

FOR PRESS AIR-LINES DISPUTE
Statement by the Prime Ministter t. he J nHo. Sir Robert Menzies
As certain legal aspects of the current air-lines
dispute in New South Wales are before the Court, I will
confine myself to the political differences. Commonwealth
Ministers have met State Ministers in an attempt to secure
agreement. By courtesy of the Premier, I have had a conference
with the Commonwealth Attorney-General and the State Attorney-
General, in order to clarify my own mind as to the nature of

Transcript 1087

KEVJ MAYORAL DINNER 3DA-PRILs 196j
Oeech by the Prime Ninister the R S_ rRoert Menzie s
Mr. Mayor, Councillor Stephens and Parliamentary Colleagues,
Your Honours and Gentlemen
Man and boy, I have been coming around as Member for
Kooyong for thirty-four and a half years. I suppose I must
have attended a pretty high percentage of the Kew Mayoral
Dinners in that time and I am delighted to find that Councillor
Stephens has follow0red a great tradition because on not one
occasion can I ever remember not hearing something about the

Transcript 1086

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SPEECH BY
The Rt. Hon. SIR ROBERT MENZIES,
M. P.,
ON
CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW
[ From the " Parliamentary Debates," 1st April 19651
Sir ROBERT MIENZIES ( Kooyong-
Prime Minister) [ 11.41].-I hope that I will
not disappoint either the Leader of the
Opposition ( Mr. Caiwell) or anybody else
in this House when I say that I have no
intention whatever of making a party debating
speech. The Leader of the Opposition
did not do so either. I have no desire to do
it because I agree that the issues of constitutional

Transcript 1085

FOR PRESS P. M. No. _-/ 1965
196 CORAL SEA CELEBRATIONS
Statement by the Pime Minister, the Rt. on. Sir Robet MAie.
General Hunter Harris Jr., Commander-in-Chief
of the United States Pacific Air Force, is to visit Australia
as the Guest of Honour at the Coral Sea celebrations for
1965. General Harris will arrive in Sydney on the
2nd May and will visit all States during the following two
weeks to take part in the celebrations in each State
Capital arranged by the Australian-American Associationl.
Mrs. Harris will accompany the General.

Transcript 1084

UNVEILING OF A PLA UE AT THE NEJ TELEPHONE EXCHANGE,
BATHURST,, J96.
Mr. Chairman, Your Worship the Mayor, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Iiuchetti
and all those other people who were referred to just now by
the Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys t
Now that is fairly comprehensive. I thincz I would
like to begin by telling you that my wife regrets her absence
just as much as you do, but we managed and shae's a -%, oman of
strong mind to force her into hospital about eight or nine
days ago, and to keep her there. It's been a very remarkable

Transcript 1083

6' s
OPENING OF NE-. ' JI SCIENCE BLOC~ i: K AT ST. STANISLAUS
CO THRST 27TH Kk-RCHI. 126
Spe ech by the P rixwe j. nistr 1 Aet, L. rf lR9oo bLe $ ze
Reverend Father ? rincipal, My Lord Bishops and Ladies and
Gentlemen and fellow workers
I have been very pleased here today to hear
these kind things spoken about the policies that we have been
trying to pursue, Personally, as one of the authors of this
scheme, I have never understood why anybody should object to
it. ( Applause) And I am perfectly certain that 90 per cent.

Transcript 1082

FOR PRESS P. m. No. _ 34/ 1965
BISHOPS'I LETTER ON VIETNAM
Statement by the Prime Ministers the Rt. Hon. $ ir Roateze
On March 12, a letter signed by a number of bishops
of the Anglican Church was received by the Prime Minister.
It dealt with events in Vietnam.
Yesterday, the Prime Minister replied to the letter
in the following terms
" I have given careful thought to your letter
of March 12th, relating to events in Vietnam. As your
letter was published in the press, 1 shall give publicity
to my reply, when you have received it.