CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 591

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Kowloon Canton Railway Survey Pastal Temtory Financial approt-

Railway U-1

In order to arrive at some acasonable conclusion as to whether this Railway would be likely to become a financial success or otherwise

as a local schome, we had better look

Board of

Brace artures, and her what

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ather railways are

doing.

Faking their returns for duperuditure and Recupts per mile of Railway in the tricked Kingdon, I find that roughly they follows:-

England & Wales

Scotland

Jarland

Exp per mile

At A

Recupt pou

هم کی نہ لگے

ومروح کنگر

12000

6 doo

سلام کم کم

Suppon we deal with expenses, as perhaps we Away Karow Ancome about them than about- rccupts!

would

I should say that the items which

до

to form the total dapruditure per mile of this railway would be about as follows

England:

He aintainance of May

Rolling Stock

Praffic expruses Huserllanious

GY

2000

2500

2009

500

$7,000

best be

& Wales am not aur Class;

might in pect to be somewhere betwee Scotland and Ireland as regards expedien

Taking our working expences then at $7000 for mich and assuming them to be 40% of prcripts which should be reasonable in this Country (15)

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