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ALL COMMUNICATIONS

TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE

GROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES, THE ABOVE REFERENCE AND THE

CATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED.

TEL. ADD. "CROWN, LONDON"

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P. 14.00.08

WHITEHALL GARDENS,

LONDON, S. W.

13th October

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Hong Kong Kowloon Canton Railway.

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7th Oct/08

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

your letter of the 19th September No.32728/1908 communicat-

ing to us a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong as to

the defects in certain bridges now under construction on

the Kowloon-Canton Railway.

2.

The papers which you forwarded to us have been

considered by the Consulting Engineers and I now enclose a

copy of the report which they have made to us in the matter.

We agree in the views which the Consulting Engineers express

and we consider that they state correctly the measure of

their responsibility for the work now in course of con-

struction. We are at a loss to conceive on what grounds

the Governor can have arrived at the conclusion that the

Consulting Engineers are financially responsible for the

successful carrying out of the works, and I would point out

that Consulting Engineers would have to be remunerated on

a very different scale to that which obtains at present if

they were to be called upon to accept such responsibility.

3. It appears to us that until Mr A.J. Barry has

made his inspection of the works and until the Consulting

Engineers shall have submitted their conclusions and advice

upon his report, it would be desirable that the Secretary he Under Secretary of State,

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