CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905 — Page 199

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maintenance must be lower on the shorter and more level

route. He adds that the remainder of the *Eastern Route" will, with minor modifications, follow closely the align- ment selected by Mr Large.

The following extract from the Chief Surveying Engineer's letter dated Kowloon, 7th August 1905, may be of Interest

"I have now completed my preliminary survey of the "Eastern Route" and am about to go over the "Western "Route". I have levelled the whole of the "Eastern Route and have shown the section to H. E. the Governor of Hong Kong. He has expressed satisfaction with what has "been done. H. E. Sir Mathew Nathan does not want to "have any of the line pegged out South of the mountain "range for some considerable time as he fears that "speculators would get hold of land required for the "works if the location of the centre line was made known. "Sir Mathew's idea is to commence work on the con- struction of the Railway between Tai Po and Lo Fu next November, and to use the Railway formation as a public road. The frontier road has been constructed from "Kowloon to Tai Po (length 18 miles) and Sir Mathew thinks that from Tai Po to Lo Fu the Railway might be used as

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a road until tear the completion of the Railway tunnel "through the range, say three years hence. This portion "of the Railway will be pegged out by the Public Works "Department under my supervision, and the portion "between Tai Po and the North portal of the tunnel will be pegged out by Mr Valpy and Mr Sayer, also

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