His friends in China will be interested to learn that Mr. T. R. Wynne, C.LE., has been invited by Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, to join the newly-formed Railway Board in India.
Mr. Wynne, it will be remembered, was appointed in 1902 by the Board of Directors of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company as General Manager in China with full powers. At that time the affairs of the Company were in a very unsatisfactory state; how satisfactorily he reorganised the working of the Mines and expended the business of the Company is well known to all interested in the concern.
The Railway Board in India now formed, will consist of three members, who will exercise administrative as well xs supervisory control of all existing railways, amounting to 30,000 miles of railways open to traffic, besides railways under construction. The Board will also be entrusted with the preparation of a railway programme for future extensions and new schemes.
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