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6. When Mr. A. J. Barry inspected the line on his recent visit he found much to criticise in the work of the Chief Resident Engineer, but neither he nor the Consulting Engineers were, I presume, aware of the very large excess which is being incurred on the Tunnel over the original Estimate of June, 1907. I was at the time awaiting Mr. Eves's over-due report for 1908, and had no means myself of knowing how things stood, and consequently did not invite Mr. Barry's attention to the financial side of the Railway question. I have written now fully in order that the Consulting Engineers may have the fullest information which I am able to afford them in their final revision of the Railway Estimates. I fear that the selection of Mr. Eves as Chief Resident Engineer for this line will prove to have been an unfortunate one and will damage the reputation of British Railway Engineering in the Far East.
7. In his letter to the Consulting Engineers of 11th June, 1909, paragraphs 11 and 12, Mr. Eves states that my speech in the Legislative Council on May 13th had created a bad impression which I was anxious to allay, and that he had been asked by the Colonial Secretary to reconsider a letter which he had drafted to the Consulting Engineers on the subject. The facts are as stated