IN GOOD COMPANY.
FAILED TO FORESEE THE GREAT EXPANSION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, February 3. Mr. T. R. Johnson, the retiring Chief Railway Commissioner, spoaking at a. farewell gathering tendered -by tho technical staff, said he had (been blamed for not foreseeing tho groat expansion of tho past seven years. If he had failed to foresco this lie was'in good company and was not ashamed. Tho manager of .the Bank of New South Wales had confessed that ho and tho bank's directors had similarly failed to foresee the marvellous expansion of the past few years. Mr. Johnson pointed out that £14,000,000 of loan money had been spent during the past seven years.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1975, 4 February 1914, Page 7
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112IN GOOD COMPANY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1975, 4 February 1914, Page 7
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