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Speeches by Sir Earle Page

出版	1922
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EhpDMwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Prime minister. Earle Christmas Grafton Page was born in Grafton, New South Wales in 1880. He was a surgeon during the First World War and, in 1919, was elected to the federal seat of Cowper in New South Wales. He helped found the Country Party and was leader from 1920 to 1939. He became treasurer in the Bruce-Page government, 1923-1929, served in the second Lyons ministry, and was prime minister, briefly, for 19 days, in 1939. Page was a minister in the Menzies and Fadden governments of 1940-1941 and Minister for Health in the Menzies governments of the early 1950s. Following his retirement from the Health portfolio in 1956, Page remained in parliament until his death in 1961. Page was created a G.C.M.G. in 1938. He was a foundation member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and was appointed the first chancellor of the University of New England in 1955.