George Wishart Smith

George Wishart Smith (1868 – before 1960), sometimes written Wishart-Smith, was a railway executive in Western Australia and Railway Commissioner in Tasmania, from which service he was suspended after mounting costs and deteriorating patronage.

He was accountant for the Midland Railway Company when he was appointed Assistant General Manager in 1898.

[1] He was living at Midland Junction when he was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1909.

He was suspended by the Premier (Sir Walter Lee) in September 1923 following a Royal Commission into operation of the railways and recommendations by the Executive Council, meeting in Launceston, which found that Smith was guilty of "negligence, incompetence and misbehavior"[5] In suing the Tasmanian Government for wrongful dismissal he demanded specific details on each of these allegations,[6] but was met with a series of postponements and delays,[7] during which, of course, Smith received no salary.

daughter of Alfred Broadhead, licensee of the Scarborough Hotel, Clifton, on 4 Jun 1894.