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Start Date
01 January 1962
End Date
31 December 1962
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MS 4936-Papers of Sir Robert Menzies/Class. Original Consignment/Series 6/File 422a
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OPENING .S.L. LLAGE CHEL· TENHA  

HD MARCH 1962  

Speech by the Prime Minister, the Ht. Hon, H.G, Mens ie s.  

Sir George and ladies and gentlemen,  

think ought to begin by telling you that my  

appearance here today, and that of my wife, are the result of  

long negotiation. Most of last year we vrere trying to find date.  

When we found one that suited George Holland it turned out it  

didn’t suit me and when we found one that suited me it turned out  

that it didn’t suit somebody else. ie got to point, finally,  

where we both began to wonder whether, if the event came off at the  

beginning of March. 1962, would be here in my official capacity  

at all, (Laughter; But with his usual magnanimity Sir George took  

chance and did too. Anyhow on photo finish here we are  

and very pleased am to be able to be here.  

Sir George’s referring in generous terms to the Aged  

Persons’ Homes Act is very interesting conjunction of the planets  

may tell you today, because this particular scheme originated in  

one of those rather abrupt remarks that one’s wife makes  

occasionally at breakfast time« My wife put her finger on this  

years ago and said, "This is the great problem and why don’t you do  

something about it, the problem of providing proper living  

accommodation, not, in barracks, or institutions, but in an  

ordinary human way for people who are up in years?" was stunned  

by this, but my mind, for once, was quite active, and out came the  

scheme as we now know it, which, of course, has since been  

improved. I’m interested to tell you that in her favour because,  

without any full realisation of it, when the date for today’s  

function was fixed Iforgct, you see, that it’s her birthday todayI  

Nov;, Sir George, there are two or three reasons won’t  

be long why I*m delighted to be here and one of them, if may  

start off with yourself, is because you aro presiding here today,  

and have had great deal to do with this achievement. You know,  

contrary to the public impression ladies and gentlemen, it isn’t  

all beer and skittles being Prime Minister. know there are  

plenty of applicants for the job at any given moment, but it’s  

really not all that fun, you see. I’ve been Prime Minister,  

now, as anybody can tell you, for too long, for about 12 years,  

and bit, on my recent term. During the great bulk of that, for  

the first 10 or 11 years of that, the Federal President of the  

League was George Holland. That means in the course of events  

that he and I, over long period of time, havo seen lot of each  

other. It’s been very, very happy association not because  

found it easy to say "No" to him, occasionally said "No", but  

quite frequently, as he'll agree, he got away with certain amount  

of loot, rightly or wrongly, and we’ve had very, very happy  

personal association.  

Now no Government in Australia will be as effective in  

its work as anybody would expect unless it has representing groat  

groups in the nation competent and responsible people. Federal  

Government charged with responsibilities for repatriation, with  

responsibilities in relation to mass of things affecting ex-  

servicemen, and ex-service women, would find it difficult to  

discharge these responsibilities on merely departmental basis.  

So much depends on the quality of the service organisations and the  

responsibility or irresponsibility with which they put forward  

their case. want to say about the League that in my  

protracted experience as Prime Minister, and as Minister,  

know of no organisation which has so firmly and agreeably asserted  

what it believes to bo the rights of its members and has so  

scrupulously refrained from being mere pressure group.  

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