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261/2.
ALL COMMUNICATIONS
TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES, THE ABOVE REFERENCE AND THE
DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED.
TEL. ADD."CROWN, LONDON"
Sir,
Kowloon-Canton Railway
British Section.
18907
7 JUN 09)
213
WHITEHALL CARDENS,
LONDON, S. W.
5th June
190 9.
With reference to your letter of the 19th of You s.to CAs.September No.32728/08 and subsequent correspondence I have the
May.09
honour to enclose for the information of the Secretary of State a copy of a letter from the Consulting Engineers covering a copy of the report drawn up by Mr.A.J.Barry on his inspection
of the works in progress on the Kowloon-Canton Railway.
ctract
Report
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2. As a result of Mr. Barry's report, which
embodies their views as well as his own, and after careful
perusal of the views expressed by the Governor in his despatch of the 13th February to the Secretary of State (a copy of which wag, transmitted to us with your letter of the 27th March No. 9334/09) the Consulting Engineers feel themselves reluctantly
compelled to recommend that the present Chief Resident Engineer
should be asked to resign in view of the Colonial Government's
lack of confidence in his judgment which Sir J.Wolfe Barry and Partners admit they now share.
3. They suggest that his place should be filled
by a man who can combine this appointment with that of traffic
adviser to the Colonial Government which will undoubtedly re-
quire a traffic expert in the near future in settling a joint
he Under Secretary of State,
etc., etc., etc.,
Colonial Office.
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