Speeches

Start Date
01 January 1969
End Date
31 December 1970
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MS 4936-Papers of Sir Robert Menzies/Class. Consignment received 1993/File 38
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SPUCH BY SIR ROBERT MENEIES AT WINIFRED WEST SCHOOLS 19&9  

APPEAL LAUNCHING DINNER A.J.C. RANDWICK N.S.W.  

4th DECEMBER,I 969  

Sir, if were not friend of Jock Pagan's, would  

tell him quite plainly that have never listened to more nonsense  

(Laughter) in the whole of my life (Laughter). He has been  

pronouncing kind of obituary (Laughter) no doubt very rightly}  

if my papers are searched after am dead they will discover two  

obituary notices written by me. One for the Sydney Morning  

Herald (Laughter and applause) ani one for the Duly Telegraph  

(Laughter). Each of them written so far as could approach  

the style in the characteristic English of both newspapers  

(Laughter). Well, that is enou^i about obituaries you see,  

because the task tönisit is so far from being obituary entirely  

perspective in its character.  

What persuaded Jock Pagan to invite me to come tonight  

to be the chief spruiker or what folly persuaded me to say Yes,  

don*t know. My association with the matter is quite tenuous.  

have grand-daughter at Frensham (Laughter and Applause) and,  

oddly enough like her and, oddly enough, when she came down  

this is her first year came down at the end of the first term  

to stay with my wife and myself in Melbourne have never seen  

child suffer such sea-change into something rich and strange.  

(Laughter). Dear me, before she went to Frensham she was  

reticent, rather reserved little girl who sat down and looked at  

me when was with her family, sat down and looked at me and  

treated me with profound and almost reticent respect ,* one tern  

at Frensham* (Laughter and applause). walked into my  

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