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(under that Head of the Railway Estimates) viz.:- $350,000 more than suffices for the land actually required for the Station site which is estimated at $332,000. The balance ($18,000) added to the estimated saving of $270,000 on Station Buildings is available to meet the cost of Workshops (estimated at $120,000) for which no sum has hitherto been provided on the Railway Estimates, and a final saving of $168,000 will be affected in the present total of the Estimates under these two heads (Station and Shops). In a separate Despatch, however, I am informing Your Lordship that the revised Estimate prepared by the Chief Resident Engineer to accompany his report for 1908 shows an increase of about 1 million dollars over the revised Estimate of last year, bringing the total estimated cost of the Railway exclusive of the resumed lands not immediately required and including the reduced Estimate of the Station Buildings to 11 millions. The alternative of debiting the cost of the whole of the resumptions to the Railway Loan, results after including the cost of Workshops in an increase in the Railway Estimates of $287,167.
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In your Despatch Confidential of September 10th., 1908, you informed me that you were prepared to accept the proposals of the Consulting Engineers
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(under that Head of the Railway Estimates) viz.:- $350,000
more than suffices for the land actually required for
the Station site which is estimated at $332,000. The
balance ($18,000) added to the estimated saving of
$270,000 on Station Buildings is available to meet the
cost of Workshops (estimated at $120,000) for which no sum
has hitherto been provided on the Railway Estimates, and a
final saving of $168,000 will be affected in the present
total of the Estimates under these two heads (Station and
Shops). In a separate Despatch, however, I am informing
Your Lordship that the revised Estimate prepared by the
Chief Resident Engineer to accompany his report for 1908
shows an increase of about 1 million dollars over the
revised Estimate of last year, bringing the total estimated
cost of the Railway exclusive of the resumed lands not
immediately required and including the reduced Estimate of
the Station Buildings to 11 millions.The alternative of
debiting the cost of the whole of the resumptions to the
Railway Loan, results after including the cost of Workshops
in an increase in the Railway Estimates of $287,167.
6.
In your Despatch Confidential of
September 10th., 1908, you informed me that you were
prepared to accept the proposals of the Consulting
Engineers
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