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cost of the line with it would certainly not exceed

£500,000.

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5.

The capital value of the saving

in working expenses including maintenance by the adoption

of the East low level route instead of the East high level

route is worked out by Mr. Bruce to be $919,800 and by the

adoption of the East low level route instead of the West

route to be $1,716,084.

6.

I am disposed to think that Mr.

Bruce's estimate of time, viz.:- 24 years for the construc-

-tion of the line by the East low level route is low and

that the estimate of 3 years for the piercing of the tun-

confiteutval -nel, suggested in paragraph 4 of my Despatch of the 12th.

January, is a safer one to adopt.

7.

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Mr. Bruce does not compare the

time taken in running along the East low level and West

routes but his difference of 13.06 miles between the

lengths of the two lines reduced to their equivalent

lengths of straight-level line confirms the saving report-

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-ed in paragraph 10 of my Despatch of January 11th. of

half an hour by the adoption of the former route.

8.

Mr. Bruce for the reasons he

gives

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