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PRESS CONFERENCE GIVEN BY THE PRIAvE MINISTER,
THE RT. HON. R. G. r.' ENZIES, IN MELBOURNE, ON
13~ TH DECEMBER, 1961
PRIME MINISTER: I would just like to start in my own way, if I may.
As you know I have a long established practice of not
making a comment on election results until they are
reasonably clear, and in a normal election they would
have been reasonably clear by now. But it seemed to me
that if I refrained from saying anything too long it
might lead to misinterpretation so, while the results are