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fice or Individual.

Commons

1907

Binar

previous Paper. Jov 10630.

No.

HONG KONG

AUSTRALIA

No. 10889.

(Subject.)

356

DOMESTIC.

G. 0.

10889

[RECE

REGE 26 MAR 07,

Sleepers for Canton Kowloon Rly

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald,-To ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, at what price, delivered at Kowloon, including insurance and freight, sleepers have been supplied for the British Government section of the Kowloon to Canton Railway; whether the sleepers, according to the contract, had to be hand-hewn or sawed; whether a Government certificate of inspection from the place of export accompanied the shipment; whether he is aware that the Hong Kong agents of the firm supplying these sleepers are also the agents of the British Chinese Corporation, Limited; whether tenders for the supply of these sleepers were called for, and, if so, when and where they were advertised; and, more particularly, whether the Crown Agents gave any information to the Agents General of the Australian States that the tenders were being asked for these sleepers. [Wednesday 27th March.}.

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that explanations are wanted: Ithink it is a

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Contracts for supplies in this

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