Ming’s Monolith’
(From GRAEME JENKINS, Special Correspondent, N.Z P A.) SYDNEY, July 22. The decision of the townspeople of Jeparit, a centre 250 miles from Melbourne, to erect a towering monument to the town’s most famous son. Sir Robert Menzies, has proved a boon to Australia's political cartoonists. The towering monument which will be capped by the representation of a Scotch thistle—Sir Robert Menzies is a member of the Order of the Thistle—is still only in the planning stage but already it has been irreverently dubbed "Ming’s Monolith.” The monument will be paid for by donations by residents of Jeparit and also by well-wishers in other parts of the country. This will be one of the few I times in Australia’s political [history that a monument has I been erected in honour of a
I living person and is widely regarded as a befitting gesture to Sir Robert Menzies.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30810, 23 July 1965, Page 11
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