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6.
When Mr. A. J. Barry inspected
the line on his recent visit he found much to criticise in
the work of the Chief Resident Engineer, but neither he nor
the Consulting Engineers were, I presume, aware of the very
large excess which is being incurred on the Tunnel over the
original Estimate of June, 1907. I was at the time awaiting
Mr. Eves's over-due report for 1908, and had no means my-
-self of knowing how things stood, and consequently did not
invite Mr. Barry's attention to the financial side of the
Railway question. I have written now fully in order that
the Consulting Engineers may have the fullest information
which I am able to afford them in their final revision of
the Railway Estimates. I fear that the selection of Mr.
Eves as Chief Resident Engineer for this line will prove to
have been an unfortunate one and will damage the reputation
of British Railway Engineering in the Far East.
7.
In his letter to the Consulting
Engineers of 11th. June, 1909, paragraphs 11 and 12, Mr.
·
Eves states that my speech in the Legislative Council on
May 13th. had created a bad impression which I was anxious
to allay, and that he had been asked by the Colonial
Secretary to reconsider a letter which he had drafted to the
Consulting Engineers on the subject. The facts are as
stated
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