SPEECH BY MR. ROBERT O. MENZIES PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA AT THE OPENING OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS" AUGUST 24th, 1962. 

Sir, 

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P. M. No. 60/ 1962
ROYAL VISIT 1963 ITINERARY
S tatement by the Prime MinisterL the Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies
Her Majesty the Queen has given her approval
to an itinerary for her visit to Australia with His Royal
Highness the Duke of Edinburgh in February and March next
year. The itinerary wa-prepared by Her Majesty's
Australian Secretary Sir Roy Dowling, in consultation
with the State Directors for the visit. The preparation

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I always kaw that it is old; I read about it in the early
sistory of Sr& Wro and I had no idea that it bad bw properous
a lag uati I sa his Mayoral arbna ( Laughter) I gthered

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BELD AT SYDNEY ON 18TH AUGUST, 196.2
Speech by the PilMe Minister, the Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzig-s
Sir, I think it is quite ridiculous for me to
interrupt a programme so full of gaiety, I am entirely
willing to resign instantly in favour of Jim Burke. ( Laughter)
And not politically. ( Laughter) But I've been enjoying this.
As a matter of fact, when he said that the lightmeter
showed zero minus 05 or whatever it was, it reminded me
at once of a time when I was in England and, oddly enough,

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PAPERS P, No. 1962
VISIT OF KING AND QUEEN OF THAILAND
Their Majesties King Bhumibcl and Queen Sirikit
of Thailand will pa: s through. Sydney earl on Saturday
morning on their way to New Zealand to begin a State
visit, They will return on August 26th for their State
visit to Australia. Their Majssties will leave Bangkok at 11,30 amY
tomorrow ( Friday) in a Qantas aircraft, chartered by the
Government of Thai. land, and after refuelling at Singapore,

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The Austwaiiantgiogle are looking forward
vith reat pleasure to twpportunity which vill
shortly be g n them to weloe to their shores
Their Majestis King Ptmnl a aduen Siz'ikit of
ThaiIand. This will be the first ocoasiom on which
a reigning moaarch of a fbreigi ooumtry has visited
us* Nw appropriat, it Is that the Royal Visitor
should from a onmt with which Australia
has strmaS ties through the Bouth lat Asia Treaty
Or nisation and the still atroager ties of a warm
and abiding fridb~ hip.
Their Majesties will travel far and wide

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SPEECH BY
~ Rt. Hon. R. G. MENZIES, CH, M. P.
ON
BUDGET 1962-63.
[ Fromn the " Parliamentary Debates," 16th A ugust, 1962.]
Mr. MENZIES ( Kooyong--Prime Minishonorable
member for
I. rra ( Mr. Cairns) has a rich vein of
humour that I have always admired; but he
really ought to make up his mind one of
these days what it is he means because in
the last five minutes of his speech, he
Jbpted in his attack on the Government
two utterly inconsistent positions. In the

OPENING OF TWELFTH WORLD POULTRY CONGESS, SHOWGROUNDS, SYDNEY.
13^th August, 1962
Speech by the Prime Minister, the Rt, Hon. R. G. Menzies