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for such admission and use of the road is based on concrete or preferably on a vehicle-mile rate, as may be mutually agreed.
To deal directly with the contemplated joint arrangements between the British and Chinese sections of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, one of three plans is possible.
(1) To provide a junction station at the frontier to be operated as a terminal station.
(2) To place one section under the working control of the other, or
(3) to give the Chinese section working power in Kowloon.
Plan (1) would of course avoid all difficulty in respect of dual control or foreign jurisdiction. It is questionable whether it would be wise administrative policy to burden the finances of the colony with a recurring working deficit, in addition to the interest charged on the railway loan.
The 30 miles of the British section, if worked as a separate undertaking, could require a full complement of staff. For effective supervision, the irreducible minimum would suffice to work five times the mileage. And in actual practice, 15
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