A GREAT BANKER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18899, 27 June 1923, Page 10

A GREAT BANKER.

LATE SIR DENISON MILLER, (Feom Ode Own Coreespondent.) SYDNEY, June 13. There have been few more impressive funerals in Sydney than that; of the first Governor of the Commonwealth Bank (Sir Denison Miller), the announcement of whose sudden death carno as a profound shook to the community. The Commonwealth Bank is his best and most lasting monument, If lie did not actuality create it, ho proved the fitness of Andrew Fisher's choice for the job by laying soundly and well the foundations for the bank and by rearing upon those foundations a great edifice in the world’s fiiinncia.l fabric. The war, with the flotation of huge loans and other problems, presented opportunities for the display of vision and imagination and resource and efficiency of which Sir Denison Miller did not fail to take advantage. The financial councils of the nation are immeasurably the poorer for his passing. Had he lived, his statutory term of office would not have expired until 1926; hut his death will probably raise afresh the question of substituting for one-man control the government of this great institution by a board. The impressive cortege from St. Andrew's Cathedral to the grave made a detour so that Sir Denison's aged mother, 100 infirm to leave her home, might witness the passing of her distinguished son. It was only one of many touching scenes. It is the prerogative of big men that their influence lives long after thev have dosed behind them the gates of life and passed into the insolvable mystery of death. Sir Denison Miller was such a man. His memory, his influence, will live.