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To be fair, Sir Henry was good for some laughs when he turned off the railway propaganda, and he is such a likeable personality anyway. He said he was speaking at the dinner under instructions from his Board—"I act as shop steward, you know". He claimed to get on well with the NFC's Dan Pettit (who was four seats away on the top table) but was rather upset because Dan had given him a book on how to play golf, and it had ruined his game.
Cue for Dan to give him a book on how to run a railway?
The Institute dinner was glittering and very well attended as usual. Mr President said that many had had to be turned away. Time, then, for a bigger dining-room for the event, in all logic?