Return To The Ministry
Menzies returned to the Prime Ministership in 1949, and Page was made Minister for Health. He held this post until 1956, when he was 76, then retired to the backbench.
On Billy Hughes' death in October 1952, Page became the Father of the House of Representatives and Father of the Parliament.
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