CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10] — Page 679

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discuss matters which require Governor's sanction. On the other hand I am able to keep in closer touch and to save written correspondence. I have therefore arranged that a Railway Meeting shall take place once a month (on the first Tuesday), and I shall from time to time forward my précis of the conversation which has taken place at any particular meeting, if I should judge that it would be of interest to Your Lordship or of use to the Consulting Engineers. Two such meetings have already been held, and I forward my notes upon them.

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The next point to which I consider it worth while to direct Your Lordship's attention is the fitness of the Chief Resident Engineer for the post he occupies. I understood that Sir M. Nathan was dissatisfied with Mr. Eves - as indeed appears from various reports made by him to Your Lordship. The Consulting Engineers on the other hand were, so far as I could judge from conversation, satisfied with him and inclined to think that his position had been made somewhat difficult by the causes I have alluded to in the last two paragraphs. Believing strongly as I do in the Indian School of Railway Construction, and holding also the conviction that a Railway should be constructed by a Railway Expert who should be free

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شكرا 4. - 673 discuss matters which require Governor's sanction. On the other hand I am able to keep in closer touch and to save written correspondence. I have therefore arranged that a Railway Meeting shall take place once a month (on the first Tuesday), and I shall from time to time forward my précis of the conversation which has taken place at any particular meeting, if I should judge that it would be of interest to Your Lordship or of use to the Consulting Engineers. Two such meetings have already been held, and I forward my notes upon them. Enclosure 1 4. The next point to which I consider it worth while to direct Your Lordship's attention is the fitness of the Chief Resident Engineer for the post he occupies. I understood that Sir M. Nathan was dissatisfied with Mr. Eves - as indeed appears from various reports made by him to Your Lordship. The Consulting Engineers on the other hand were, so far as I could judge from conversation, satisfied with him and inclined to think that his position had been made somewhat difficult by the causes I have alluded to in the last two paragraphs. Believing strongly as I do in the Indian School of Railway Construction, and holding also the conviction that a Railway should be constructed by a Railway Expert who should be free
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شكرا 4. - 673 discuss matters which require Governor's sanction. On the A other hand I am able to keep in closer touch and to save written correspondence. I have therefore arranged that a Railway Meeting shall take place once a month (on the first Tuesday), and I shall from time to time forward my précis of the conversation which has taken place at any particular meeting, if I should judge that it would be of interest to Your Lordship or of use to the Consulting Engineers. Two such meetings have already been held, and I forward my notes upon them. Fenclosure 1 a+R 4. The next point to which I consider it worth while to direct Your Lordship's attention is the fitness of the Chief Resident Engineer for the post he occupies. I understood that Sir M. Nathan was dissatisfied with Mr. Eves - as indeed appears from various reports made by him to Your Lordship. The Consulting Engineers on the other hand were, so far as I could judge from conversa- -tion, satisfied with him and inclined to think that his position had been made somewhat difficult by the causes I have alluded to in the last two paragraphs. Believing strongly as I do in the Indian School of Railway Construct- -ion, and holding also the conviction that a Railway should be constructed by a Railway Expert who should be free
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4.

- 673

discuss matters which require Governor's sanction. On the

A

other hand I am able to keep in closer touch and to save

written correspondence. I have therefore arranged that a

Railway Meeting shall take place once a month (on the first

Tuesday), and I shall from time to time forward my précis

of the conversation which has taken place at any particular

meeting, if I should judge that it would be of interest to

Your Lordship or of use to the Consulting Engineers. Two

such meetings have already been held, and I forward my

notes upon them.

Fenclosure 1

a+R

4.

The next point to which I consider

it worth while to direct Your Lordship's attention is the

fitness of the Chief Resident Engineer for the post he

occupies. I understood that Sir M. Nathan was dissatisfied

with Mr. Eves - as indeed appears from various reports

made by him to Your Lordship. The Consulting Engineers on

the other hand were, so far as I could judge from conversa-

-tion, satisfied with him and inclined to think that his

position had been made somewhat difficult by the causes I

have alluded to in the last two paragraphs. Believing

strongly as I do in the Indian School of Railway Construct-

-ion, and holding also the conviction that a Railway

should be constructed by a Railway Expert who should be

free

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