Subject.
Page
June 24 chelles,(Rec. July 28.)
101.
States that no system of mechanical transport has been, or is likely to be, introduced into the Island.
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The Governor
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25
Ditto
Northern June 29 Nigeria, (Rec. July 30.)
403.
Transmits report by Mr. Ridsdale upon the working of the two motor cars owned by the Administration.
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26
Ditto
Barbados, 9.1.
July 15 (Rec. Aug. 8.)
States, with reference to No. 8, that as the system of transport introduced is still in the experimental stage the completion of the returns will be postponed until more accurate details than is possible at present can be supplied.
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FURTHER PAPERS
RELATING TO
MECHANICAL TRANSPORT IN THE
COLONIES,
&c.
J
(No. 120.) MY LORD,
No. 1.
MALTA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 3 July, 1909.)
WITH reference to your circular despatch of the 28th ultimo,* relating to
The Palace, Valletta, 28 June, 1909. mechanical transport in British Colonies and Protectorates, I have the honour to state that this Government has no mechanical transport and cannot, therefore, furnish the information called for in paragraph 3.
2. The contents of the final paragraph of your Lordship's despatch have been duly noted.
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27
Ditto
Fiji, 125, » | (Rec. Aug. 9.)
June 14
Reports that there is at present no system of mechanical transport in the Colony.
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28
Ditto
Mauritius 183.
August 3 (Rec, Sept. 15.)|
Supplies information respecting the use of mechanical transport employed in the sugar industry in Mauritius,
25
1911.
20
Ditto
East Africa Pro- tectorate,
April 13 (Rec. May 5,)
177.
Reports that, owing to absence of metulled roads outside townships and cheapness of ox-transport, it is doubt- ful whether mechanical transport will be used for some time, except, perhaps, in areas where oxen cannot live.
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No. 2.
I have, &c.,
H. F. GRANT,
Governor.
(No. 367.)
MY LORD,
SIERRA LEONE.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 6 August, 1909.)
Government House, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 19th July, 1909.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your circular despatch of
*
the 28th of May, relating to the question of mechanical transport.
2. In my despatch, No. 49, of the 29th January, I stated that information would, at a later date, be furnished you with respect to the cost of inetalling two parallel tracks along one of the railway feeder roads with the object of strengthening the road along the lines over which traction engine wheels would pass.
3. The Blama road was in certain places strengthened during the rainy season of 1908 in the manner described: pieces of syenite about the size of a man's hand were placed along the tracks in layers of laterite, so arranged that the latter rock made a cushion preventing one syenite stone from crushing another.
The Maintenance Engineer, who was asked to report upon the effect which the traction engines had upon the portions of the road mentioned, states :-
“I went over a portion of the Blama road and observed that where broken syenite was put into the road and mixed with laterite earth a good hard
• No. 44 in [Cd. 4589].
† No. 10 in [Cd. 4589].
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