CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6] — Page 136

CONFIDENTIAL.

Hongkong.

سری هرویان

-7334-

My Lord,

C.0- 19330

10 JUN 09)

Government House,

130

Hongkong, 8th. May, 1909.

With reference to the paragraph

headed "Leigh and Orange's Contract" in the Railway Minute

which formed an enclosure in my Confidential Despatch of

the 13th. of last February, I have the honour to report

that the negotiations for an extension of the time of the

contract have been completed and that the conditions agreed

upon are those set out in paragraph 10 of the Chief

Resident Engineer's letter to the Consulting Engineers of

the 30th. ultimo of which I enclose a copy.

2.

The importance of obtaining the

use of the line of Railway constructed by the Contractors

in connection with their work, and known as the 'Overland

Route', is that all materials such as ballast, sleepers

and rails both for the British and Chinese Sections of the

Railway can be transported at a minimum of cost and trouble

and with profit to our Section in the case of the latter;

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

and

THE EARL OF CREVE,

&C.

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