SPE: E7CH BY TIT, PR1II41 MINISTER TUHE RT. HON. R& G. MENZIES
AT TNSTALLATIOi' OF CANCI.-ILOiL CF A. Ntu0CANBERRA,
11_ DTH APRIL,_,
Chancellor, Your Excellency,
There is an old standing rule, Sir that when I wear one
of' these things ( doctor's cap) I am allowed L take it off' when I
speak. I introduce you to that rule at once, ( Laughter)
There is also a standing order in the Parliament, up the
street against tedious repetition. It is, of course, consistently
ignorea. ( Laughter) And I am going to ignore it this morning

PY,. NQ, / 10162
EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN
Statement bythe Prime Minister,. Rt Hon. ReG. MenzLes)
The four Government women S; ators Senators RankinW( Q)
Robertson, Buttfield, and Nedgwood ( Vic.) today
made representations to me on matters affecting the conditions of
employment of women in the Commonwealth Public Service, Their
representations dealt more specifically with proposals which they
first raised last year and again a few weeks -go, and on which
Senator Buttfield already has a question on the Notice Paper of

œ. PZ-ECH BY THE PBIME MvINISTZR9 THE H~ T, HON.
R G ' iT'L 3O. EI G O17 CO-AXIAL C., iBLE, 1
T'. I JtIH APTUL. .6
Postmaster-Geneial and vent lemon.
This is i-eally a very remarklrable day bac. Duse it
represents the culmination of a v. ary remiarkable piece of emok
And I am very glad to know, f~ ton my c& Llaettthrar
represented her. e today people who can speak, think, for all-3
the various groups wh-o were responsiblo for thnis ach: levoment,
, le live i~ n such tuirbulent and hurried imes that we

WtEe P: nding!_ AmW. J7 92
COMM ' ONV-1A LTI Il OF AUSTRALIA
Index of Ministerial Statements Issued in Canberra
The Acting Minister for Trade, the Hon. Senato.-r-Denharmñ Henty
April 1.
4 6 No. 338A
No, 351
No. 364 TRADE PROMOTION DRIVE IN WEF3ST AFRICA
JAPANESE IMPORT BUDGET
AUSTRALIAN DISPLAYS AT INTERNATIONbrL EXHIITIONS
OPEN SUCCESSFULLY
The Minister for Health, Senator the Hon. Harrie W. Wade
April 4 Ho 350 MEDICAL COYCESSION FOR NORTTHERN TERRITORY
No6,0 RESIDENTS7
.36 WORLD HEALTH ) Y A 7

AUSTRALIAN _ UIThrR3rL IESCO1% tY1ISSI =, L
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER. ' THE RT. HON. R. G, MENZIES
IN THE HOUSE ' OF . PRESENTATIVE3
This, as honourable members will see, is a simple bill.
Up to now, the Australian Universities Commission has consisted
of five members. One of them, a very notable Australian
scientist, Sir Leslie Martin, is the full-time chairman. The
other four are part-time members. They are Professor N. S.
Bayliss of the University of Western Australia, Professor
A. D. Trendall of the Australian National University, Sir Kenneth

TARIFF BOARD BILL
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, THE RT. HON. R. G, HENZIES
IN THE HOUSE OIF REPRESENTATIVES
TH-APRIL, 1 2
Sir I think that this is a proper opportunity to say
something not I think, unduly contentious about the Tariff
Board Bill as it fits into the general pattern of overall policy,
because there may be some confusions here or there. It may
therefore be helpful to indicate how we understand this matter.
This is a bill which, if you put it in a short way, is designed to

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P. M. No. 33/ 1962
COMMOCNAL TH SCHOLARSHIP S CEME
Statement by the Prime iMinister, the Rt. n. ReG. Menzies
The Prime Minister said today that the Commonwealth
Government had completed another of its periodic reviews of the
Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme and had decided to liberalise the
provisions governing the means test and the rates of living
allowance. Many benefits under the scheme are available to
Commonwealth Scholarship holders free of means test but living
allowances paid under the scheme do take into account the income

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P. M0 N02_ 32ZI921-
APPDOTNT, NT OF PCFZ3CKP D0Dj. Ltl v
TO CO1PITEOF 1-;" TIR TOfU PTY EDTJ CATION
Statement b-the Prime-inistetePt. Hon, R. G. Menzies
I have decided, on advice from the Australian
Universities Commission, to appoint Professor D. P. Deham,
M. BOE., Professor of furisprulenCe at Uthe Unri-versity of
~ Aebso uan e & dltinalmeber to the Co-mmittee ofInir
P-le" ourne as Lan additional-mem! U~ eCc~~ ift~ e li~ r
into the future of Tertiary Education in Austr-lia.
The Commit-, tee on tertiary education has been

WEST : WGUINFA
SPEECH BY ThE PRIME MlSlfR, HE R5. ' ON. h,. Kl. T'S
IN -TH O b Z Nj-' DIT ' S
29TH MHaCH. 196
Mr. Speaker, I think I ought to begin by
congratulating my honourable friend the Leader of the Opposition
( Mr. Calwell) on his speech. After all, he has had great
difficulties on this matter and we have witnessed them from afar
how was he going to reconcile the very war-like utterances, so
dramatically described in the " Sydney Morning Herald" with the
well-kno nm views of some of those who sit, metaphorically,

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PAKISTANI HONOUR FOR AUSTRALIAN
Statement by the Prin. e Minister, the Rt. Hon, h. G. Menzies
I have much pleasure in announcing that the
President of Pakistan ( Field Marshal Ayub Khan) has
graciously conferred on Mr. B. C. Quayle, Assistant Parliamentary
Draftsman, the high decoration of Sitara-I-Pakistan ( Star of
Pakistan), in recognition of his services as consulting
draftsman in the final revision of the new Constitution of the
Republic of Pakistan.
The Foreign Minister of Pakistan ( Mr. Manzur Qadir)