Mr. Lang to Resign

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 173, 12 October 1927, Page 11

Mr. Lang to Resign

WILL NOT MEET HOUSE NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTION By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright SYDNEY, Tuesday. The definite results of the* polling give the Nationalist-Country Party pact 47 seats, but the returns to come are now expected to increase that number tc 51. Mr. Lang will not meet the House, but will resign next week when the returns from all the electorates will be completed. As a sequel to the defeat of the Labour Party a buying wave swept the Sydney sharemarket to-day and an almost general rise occurred in quotations for gilt-edged stocks, industrial, trading and New South Wales mining concerns. After a meeting of the Cabinet today, the Premier, Mr. J. T. Lang, announced that the salary of Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield, designed and chief engineer of the Sydney Harbour bridge, had been increased from £1,700 to £3,000 a year as from July, 1925. —A. and N.Z.

Dr. John J. C. Bradfield was born in Queensland in 1867, and after studying at Sydney University lectured there for some years. He has been chief engineer of Metropolitan Railway Construction in the Railway Department of New South Wales since 1912. He designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which is now being constructed, and the electric railways for Sydney and suburbs, and was responsible for the calculations governing the designs of the Cataract and Burrinjuck dams.