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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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discuss matters which require Governor's sanction. On the
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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
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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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