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FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 4/ 1963
DEATH OF MR. HUGH GAITSKEFLL
Statement by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies
Hugh Gaitskell's death is a great blow to his
party which he was leading with remarkable authority and
skill. It is even more than that a. great loss to
Great Britain wihich had come to regard him as one 0o' her
ablest sons. Personally, i knew him well and admired
his capabilities. He added to a fine and well-furnished
mind a sense of dedication to his own ideals, a true

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FOR PRESS P. M. No. jZ~ 196-3
CORAL SEA CELEBRATIONS
The Prime Minister said today that Admiral
John H, Sides, Commander-in-Chief of the United States
Pacific Fleet, would be the official guest for this year's
Coral Sea Celebrations which are being arranged by the
Australian-American Association. The visit will take place
from Monday, 29th April to Saturday, 11th May, 1963.
Admiral Sides will be accompanied by his
wife, and the proposed itinerary throughout Australia is as
follows Monday Tuesday Wednesday

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6.30p. m. SUNDAY, 6th. JANUARY, 1963.
FOR PRESS P. M. No. 1/ 1963
CONFERENCES WITH INDUSTRY.
STATEMENT BY iHE PRIME MINISTER, THE RT. HON. R. G. MENZIES
CoH,. . Co. M. P.
In a statement issued from his office in Canberra,
the Prime Minister said that on two occasions in 1962.
senior members of the Cabinet met in conference with rep.
resentatives of primary and secondary industry and other
economic interests in Australia in order to hear at

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3EVg~ a I( MS4( 3 TICK ! HK PIE KINIBEIa
I believe we can look fbvord to a
Yer of oautiuaig povtot and prsprity. All the
siOU poat to a frther iprovment in our internal
eonmic onditions and I hop, as we all do, for a
similar Imprvement in International relations sa
that we may pursue the & Vel9pagct of our coltmt7 in
I with all my follow astrallans a ppy
NOw Year*
1st Jamry, 1963.

P. M. No.  98/ 1962

I am delighted to learn that Her Majesty The Queen has conferred Privy Councillorships on the Judges of the High Court of Australia.

Well, I would like to say to my Parliamentary colleagues and to you who are looking at us and listening to us that I regard this as a very, very happy occasion, Man and boy, as you might say, I have been coming up here to Canberra on Parliamentary affairs since 1934 and in 1934, if I remember correctly, we had about 6,000 people in Canberra. It was a village. You could walk around it comfortably in an afternoon. Today it has the better part of 60,000 people and the wise men who understand these things and advise Governments and Oppositions tell us there will be 100,000 in 1970 and.

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 95/1962,

The Prime Minister announced today that Mr. P. J. Lawler, First Assistant Secretary, Prime Minister's Department, had been appointed to the Council of the Australian National University to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. E, J. B Foxcroft on 24th May last.

Mr. Lawler's present term will expire on 29th September, 1963.

CANBERRA,
13th December, 1962

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It Seams to me that I have to make apersonal
expanation about what we say in Parliament vtmn we pretend
tht samebedy boa si miprosemtW. as. I ought to explain how
I cW to be here because this IS qUit. 8t017#
Last week at four o'cock In the morning,, on Friday
( I reebrit will becausie as I was gping hm to the Lodges
the birds we" e twittering In the trees ( Laughter) and the dawn

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INAUGURAL
JOHN STOREY MEMORIAL LECTURE
PROBLEMS OF MANAGEMENT IN A FEDERATION
ADDRESS by
The Prime Minister ( The Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies, C. Hr, M. P.)
The Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
Saturday, 8th December, 1962.

PM No. 94/1962

Sketches of the Memorial Stone which will be placed over the grave of the late Lord Dunrossil in St. John's Churchyard, Canberra, are released to the Press today.