Lynch-Lore
[N Backstage of Life, a current 2ZB -" gession, I made acquaintance recently with an author-William Lynch-de-‘scribed as Australia’s best short story writer and the world’s seventh. Mr. ‘Lynch had produced a little opus, called The Gentleman of Nobility, concerning ‘an engineer who builds a bridge which collapses when a passenger train is cross‘ing over it, thus causing the deaths of hundreds of people. The gentleman decides that the only noble course is suicide, but he is cunningly circumvented by his wife. In the subsequent enquiry the engineer is completely exonerated, since the disaster is shown to be due not to any fault in the bridge itself, but to the fact that an earth tremor had loosened its foundations. The engineer leaves the court with personal and prdfessional character unbesmirched, presumably to build bigger and better bridges all equally innocent of the principles of earthquake resistance.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 10
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146Lynch-Lore New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 10
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