Mr Robert Menzies will have held office as Prime Minister of Australia for 12 years on Saturday. He will complete 10 years in office continuously on December 19 this year—the day before his sixty-fifth birthday. Mr Menzies was Prime Minister from April 26, 1939, to August 29, 1941, and has held the post since December 19, 1949.—Canberra, August 13.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28973, 14 August 1959, Page 11
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59Mr Robert Menzies will have held office as Prime Minister of Australia for 12 years on Saturday. He will complete 10 years in office continuously on December 19 this year—the day before his sixty-fifth birthday. Mr Menzies was Prime Minister from April 26, 1939, to August 29, 1941, and has held the post since December 19, 1949.—Canberra, August 13. Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28973, 14 August 1959, Page 11
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