ATOMIC E!, TfRGY ESTABLISI-EiLNT, LUCAS HEIGHo
QRD MARH, 1 962
Speech by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies
Professor Baxter, and colleagues, and ladies and gentlemen:
Those of you who have suffered under me before in the
opening of something will knor that I have now developed the
almost perfect technique: I open the building, or the buildings,
first, and then talk afterwards, on the sound principle that if I
talk first I may well forget to open the building at the fihish.
Today I am opening two buildings. This building, the

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Seech b the Prime nister, the Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies
Mr. Chairman, Chancellor, Mr, Renshaw and gentlemen:
This is really an anti-climax. Here am I a simple soul,
dealing with the better part of œ 2,000m. a year and every time the
expenditure of the Government goes up our Lordships of the Press
say how disgraceful it is; and every time the Revenue goes up
they say how wicked this is; and I've been listening now to
Professor Messel who positively secures merit, not only in your

EXHIB'TION OF AUSTRALIAN iRT
ADELAIDE ART GALLEJ D L. l " I ACH 12
SPEECH BY THE P. RME IN Sp THE R N. . G MENZIE,
Sir Lloyd, ladies and gentlemen:
I must say at once that Sir Lloyd( Dumas) does me far too
much honour, but I certainly plead guilty to the charge that I had
a little to do with the origins of this collection. But before I
tell you about that I would like to say that I think I am right
am I not? in telling you that this is the first ixhibition to be
put on in this new wing. This is a new and wonderful wing in a

Weekly Index No
Week Ending 10th March, 19b2
COMMON EALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Index of Ministerial Statements Issued in Canberra
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, The RG. Hon. John
McEwen
March 4. No. 220A STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER ON HIS DEPARTURE
FOR NORTH AMERICA
8 No. 239 NORTH AMERICAN WOOL TEXTILE MISSION
The Minister for National Development, Senator the Hon. W. H.
March 9 No. 249 MINISTER'S VISIT TO SNOWY SCHE EOneM. M.
11 No. 251 SAVING OF œ 9 MILLIONS IN EXPENDITURE ON
SNOWY MOUNTAINS SCHEa2ME

Weekly Index No, 9
Week Ending March 3, 1962,
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Index of Ministerial Statements Issued in Canberra
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, The Rt. Hon,
Feb. 28 28 John Mcewen.
No. 207 TRADE MISSION TO SOUTH AMERICA
No. 208 GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION TO ASSIST TOBACCO
INDUSTRY
The Treasurer, the Rt. Hon. Harold Holt, M. P.
Feb. 27 No. 199 COMMONWEALTH CASH AND CONVERSION LOAN
The Minister for
Feb. 28 28 National Development. Senator the Hon. W. H.
Spooner, M. M.

OPENING R. S VIL: LAGER , CHELTENHAMi
: D MARCH 1. 62
S. eech by the Prime Minvster the nt. Hon R. Gr, Men i3.
Sir George, and ladies and gentlemen,
I think I ought to begin by telling you that my
appearance here today, and that of my :. ife, are the result of a
long negotiation. Most of last year we were trying to fi:-. d a date,
When we found one that suited George Holland it turned out it
didn't suit me5 and when we found one that suited me it turned out
that it didn't suit somebody else. Je got to a point, finally,

MESSAGE FROM_ PRESIDENT KENNEDY

Statement by the Prime Minister ( Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies)

I have today received the following letter from the President of the United States:

"Dear Mr. Prime Minister:

The Australian Embassy i n Washington has conveyed to me your generous comments on the occasion of Colonel Glenn's flight.

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MINISTER FOR ZFLADE TO GO _ OVERS LaIS
Staterment by the Prim. e Mtnist2r the RtHon , R. G Menzis
The Minister for Trade, Mr. MeEwon, will be leaving
on Sunday on his visit to North Imerica aind Europep f or
discussions concurning the prbesfor Atustralia of the
Unit(:--King dom's request to jc~ in the Cu) rimon Market, and also
for consultation on -ther irijr-r tant rol. Itod pr-obler. ms dealin.,
with our commu-odity exprrts.
Mr. iMcEwen has arrangod fir a-final bricefing, sossion

SPE2CH BY 2HE FRIYE I4ISTER T. HON. RG.
ITTHE 7OUOS0 ? P1-LSNT. TIVES
THJURSD-Y. lbT M . RC, 1962
I think I shiuld like to begin by cnplirenting the
honourable member for Phillip ( Mr. Einfeld) who has just sat
down, n his maiden speech. He will not be surprised to find
that there are some passages in it with -hich I do not agree,
but I did think that he shuld be conplirented on the way in
which he put it.
This is a very important debato. It is a new Parliament
and it is a very narrowly divided Parlianont. Whatover

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ANIZUS COUNCIL TO MEET IN . USTRALIA
Statement by the Minister for External Affairs.
The Minister for External Affairs, Sir Garfield Barwick,
announced today that on the invitation of Australia a meeting
of the ANZUS Council would take place in Canberra on
May 7 and 8 this year.
New Zealand would be represented by the Prime Minister
and Minister for External Affairs, Mr. K. J. Hnlynake.