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SPUCH BY SIR ROBERT MENEIES AT WINIFRED WEST SCHOOLS 19&9
Fix this textAPPEAL LAUNCHING DINNER - A.J.C. RANDWICK N.S.W. -
Fix this text4th DECEMBER,I 969
Fix this textSir, if I were not a friend of Jock Pagan's, I would
Fix this texttell him quite plainly that I have never listened to more nonsense
Fix this text(Laughter) in the whole of my life (Laughter). He has been
Fix this textpronouncing a kind of obituary (Laughter) no doubt very rightly}
Fix this textif my papers are searched after I am dead they will discover two
Fix this textobituary notices written by me. One for the Sydney Morning
Fix this textHerald (Laughter and applause) ani one for the Duly Telegraph
Fix this text(Laughter). Each of them written so far as I could approach
Fix this textthe style in the characteristic English of both newspapers
Fix this text(Laughter). Well, that is enou^i about obituaries you see,
Fix this textbecause the task tönisit is so far from being obituary entirely
Fix this textperspective in its character.
Fix this textWhat persuaded Jock Pagan to invite me to come tonight
Fix this textto be the chief spruiker or what folly persuaded me to say Yes,
Fix this textI don*t know. My association with the matter is quite tenuous.
Fix this textI have a grand-daughter at Frensham (Laughter and Applause) and,
Fix this textoddly enough f I like her and, oddly enough, when she came down -
Fix this textthis is her first year - came down at the end of the first term
Fix this textto stay with my wife and myself in Melbourne I have never seen a
Fix this textchild suffer such a sea-change into something rich and strange.
Fix this text(Laughter). Dear me, before she went to Frensham she was a
Fix this textreticent, rather reserved little girl who sat down and looked at
Fix this textme when I was with her family, sat down and looked at me and
Fix this texttreated me with profound and almost reticent respect ,* one tern
Fix this textat Frensham* (Laughter and applause). I walked into my
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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