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No. 28.
TRINIDAD.
GOVERNOR SIR C. A. MOLONEY to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(No. 576.)
(Received January 4, 1902.)
Government House, December 16, 1901.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your circular despatch of the 1st June last on the subject of complaints which from time to time have reached you of mistakes or neglect on the part of the Crown Agents in regard to the commercial business entrusted to them, and asking if I am entirely satisfied with the relations between the Crown Agents and the Colony, which I administer.
2. In reply I have to say that the quality of the articles ordered are generally very good, and practically the only fault to find is the delay in fulfilling indents, which has at times occasioned loss to the Colony. In some contracts the penalty clauses for non-fulfilment cannot have been enforced, and in other cases requisitions for small and easily supplied articles would, owing to the long time taken in fulfilling them, appear to have had to wait their turn before receiving attention.
3. You will be now in a position to appreciate that the Colony has indeed little cause of complaint, and of other Colonial Governments, over which I have presided, my experience has been the same.
No. 29.
I have, &c.,
C. A. MOLONEY,
Governor.
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SIR,
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM to MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received February 3, 1902.)
(No. 415.)
[See No. 37.]
Government House, Penang, December 31, 1901.
IN continuation of my despatch, Straits Settlements, No. 510, of the 28th November last,* on the subject of the Crown Agents, I have the honour to enclose copies of correspondence received from the Resident-General, containing complaints against the state in which three locomotives were received from the Crown Agents.
2. This is a serious complaint, not only on account of the defective construction of the locomotives, but from the fact that the Federated Malay States paid a fee of over £23 for the inspection of each of these engines. Apparently the Inspecting Officer did not see the locomotives under steam, and I am of opinion that the inspection fee should not be debited against the Federated Malay States.
I have, &c.,
SIR,
Enclosure 1 in No. 29.
F. A. SWETTENHAM.
Federated Malay_States Railways.
(No. G. M. R. 1131/01.)
General Manager's Office, Kuala Lumpur, December 18, 1901.
I HAVE the honour to forward, for the information of the Government, corres- pondence on the condition in which locomotives Nos. 25, 26, 27, lately received from the Crown Agents, were found to be in when placed on the road in Perak, and to draw
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