Enclosure 2 in Fräger's General Series No 12 of
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EXTRACT FROM UNIVERSAL GAZETTE OF 15th March, 1906.
Translation,
Report of the Special Meeting of Kuangtung gentry and merchants on Railway Matters held at the Ai Ya Charity Association on 4th March, 1906.
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4th subject. On the 1st March Viceroy T'ang wrote to
the General Chamber of Commerce that the main line
section from Huang Chu to Yao T'ang was at the moment unfinished and needed about dollars 60,000 to enable cars to run and he had engaged a Japanese engineer for six months at 360 dollars a month for salary and subsistence the authorities proposed to find the funds and start building, the work to be taken over when the
trade shares should have been collected and the official
advance repaid out of them.
It was submitted to the meeting whether instalments dollars 60,000 should be provided and
a request made to take over the building.
The meeting decided to defer the subject to a future
date.
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