No. 65/-1962 

Statement by the Acting Prime Minister, Senator W F  Spooner

4th September, 1962

The Acting Prime Minister, Senator Spooner, announced today that the present Secretary of the Department of Primary Industry Mr. JV Moroney CBE , will be appointed Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board in succession to the late Sir John Teasdale, as from 27th October. The period of the appointment will be three years.

A few years ago at a meeting of Prime Ministers, not on such an important matter as the one  we're going to discuss next week, I proposed that we ought to form a Prime Ministers’ Union with one rule -no press or television interviews within twenty-four hours of arrival after a journey of more than 3,000 miles.

Mine was 13,000  but I put that in for the benefit of the Prime Minister of Canada.

I did not get a supporter but I think the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to" Animals - if not Dumb Animals  -ought to do something about it.

I had the great privilege of naming "Gretel" in Sydney, and have a very lively interest in her success.

My warmest good wishes go to her captain and crew and to those who have made her challenge and construction possible.

DAME PATTIE MENZIES

CANBERRA,

2nd Septmber, 1962.

I send best wishes to the sponsors and to the crewmen of Australia's "Gretel".

Every Australian hopes for their success. I know that they will bring credit to Australia.

The whole enterprise has caught the imagination of millions of people, and has added greatly to our already high position in international sport.

R. G. MENZIES

CANBERRA,

2nd September, 1962

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P. M. No. 64/ 1962
MINISTERIAL ARRLANGEME~ NTS
Statement by the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. R. G, Menzies
Parliament has now gone into recess until October
to enable Ministers and senior members of the Opposition
to take part in lmportr~ nt discussions overseas on the
proposed British entry into the European Economic Community.
I regret that Mr0Caiwell is not suf~ ficiently
recovered from his recent illness to be able to make the
journey overseas at this time.
I have made Ministerial arrangements to meet

A01TMLLb" JamiOR COaM= BRF G92OM H
I * 92A BY beat wihes for the succss
Of your metlngs I trust that yoar dismosiionm will
proT fruitful and help to further the tzditio
of srvice to the crmmnity which youzr ornisation
has alreay establimbe4. R. G. f4RB
CAtBh kuAo, Augpmst, 1962

CBIONWEEAlTB EAILAXS 00 WQIN JUBItfl
We ealeb rat today a most iportant
aniveisary. Rali a entury age with a ombimatioan
of vision, born of a apiwited nationalim# and the
labour of same three and a half thousuad inon, there
began in Part Agusta the sonstruotoan of the
Trans-Australian Railway.
The decision to undertak this gat
task was an indicatiou of the capacity of or
forefathers to beyond their Imediate present,
and a demonstration of the energ and sal of our
young country. NOd mnua labour built this line

I be" ve ry INIh Pleasure in . mudi"
ordial gmet" a to the ( Qeek Othdx * web
and4 * mot~ y of the ClI of Greater 4olUonpng
your aotivities in catowring to the
spiwitmzl, ad social needs of the adhewents, of
the Greek Orthdox Custar w. met . ndable.
Australia wAn Greece have san iomim bonds, not
least of wbiob in thiri Gm~ 0" St~ an berltSP.
I oongitalato all of you who thwmaA
faith a& W meal be built thi* hause Of WwshiP
ad Qmmk COnitY Centro*
& upst i 1962.

SPEECH BY THE RIGHT HON R. G. MENZIES AT THE OPENING
OF THE PHYTOTRON AT C. oS. IR0o CANBERRA, A. C. T.
ON 229H AU 2T
Sir, Your Excellencies, and Ladies and Gentlemen
I have been very much struck today by the profound
difference there is between politics and agricultural biology0
You have just had it explained to you, those who are not
already expert, that what is to be done in this place is to
control the environment. In politics, it's the other way
round, Thus today I've been down freezing at the airport