Speeches and broadcasts

Start Date
01 January 1963
End Date
31 December 1963
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MS 4936-Papers of Sir Robert Menzies/Class. Original Consignment/Series 6/File 179
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SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER  

5ih April, 1963 SYDNEY  

Opening new Science Building  

SYDNEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL  

OPENING OF THE NEW SCIENCE BUILDING AT  

SYDNEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL, SYDNEY, N.S.W.  

ON TH APRIL, I963,  

Speech by the PrimeJ liii ter. the. Ht^Hon^ MT-Robert KemXm  

Sir Â«  

don*t mind telling you am speaking this afternoon  

with one advantage and with couple of disadvantages· The  

one advantage is that at dinner-time last night, polled my  

full majority (Applause) and therefore ha ven* had to endure  

the mortification of being referred to here either as â€œthe  

ex-Prime Minister", "the former Prime Minister" or, as people  

sometimes say with touch of graveyard humour, "the late  

Prime Minister." (Laughter)  

So here am. as you might say, all present and  

correct. From ay point of view, singular advantage, but  

whether it is from yours, wouldn't like to say. But the  

disadvantages are two at least. One is that have splendid  

daylight view of the boys, most of whom are looking bit  

grim, and would be too in their pia ce and the other is  

that except for the front row, can't see you at all.(Laughter)  

You are shrouded in darkness* Men, of course, loving the  

darkness because their deeds are evil. (Laughter) And so that  

is disadvantage. always like to be $ble to see the audience.  

You satisfy yourself that you have one if you can see it.  

(Laughter)  

Another disadvantage is that Mr. Robson, this most  

famous person, connected so eloquently with this marvellous  

industrial fund, has developed habit of haunting me.  

(Laughter) have been to two or three of these things and  

each time look around uneasily, see Mr. Robson, Mr. Charles  

Booth (who used to be an old friend of mine) and Hr. Trigg,  

and they sit there Robson does the talking, the others do  

the applauding (Laughter) and although don't mind hearing  

what he has to say four times (Laughter), he must be completely  

fed up now with listening to me. Fortunately for me, can't  

remember what said on the former occasions and therefore  

will do my best to overcome this handicap.  

But, really, this is marvellous event. must  

confess, as your HeÄ…cÅ‚master has told you, that on more than  

one occasion, as result of being driven rapidly along the  

street outside, have said to him, "How do you get them all  

in?" This is vary true. have. have said it. And  

still don't know, but they are here and that, think, is  

very good thing for Sydney and very good thing for  

Australia.  

Now, want to confess to you that my claims to  

speak about science are extremely sketchy. When was  

schoolboy, had an inordinately good memory. was the kind  

of fellow who gets through examinations rather easily, you see  

except in science or mathematics. And when it came to these  

branches of learning, which never succeeded in understanding,  

used to learn the book by heart, and as once said in the  

presence of Mr. Robson, always got fifty as result,  

half and half Â» theory practice. Fifty percent. That was  

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