CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6] — Page 480

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Enclosure 6.

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Association, proposed to write to the Press to remove it.

I told him that I should welcome anything Mr. Stewart should write in that sense for I had no reason to believe that there had been any disregard of economy or extravagance in carrying out the work, and nothing I had said in my speech could properly give countenance to that view. Mr Stewart thereupon wrote to the Local Press the letter of which I enclose a copy. The leading paper referred to this letter and said that "the impression that the cost of the Railway is excessive and that money has been wasted" dated from the "discussion" in Finance Committee on 23rd January, 1908, when the Honourable Mr. Keswick and Honourable Mr. Hewett had adversely criticised the expenditure, and the former had called it "an extraordinary sum for a Railway 22 miles long".

9. In my second statement to the Council, I did my best to remove the impression that Mr. Bruce's estimate could be taken as a statement of the probable cost of the line, and that the Railway would in consequence cost more than double the original estimate, and while refraining from any further allusion to the unfortunate bridges, I dwelt on the difficulties of forecasting the cost of so long a Tunnel. Having discharged myself

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Enclosure 6. 407 Association, proposed to write to the Press to remove it. I told him that I should welcome anything Mr. Stewart should write in that sense for I had no reason to believe that there had been any disregard of economy or extravagance in carrying out the work, and nothing I had said in my speech could properly give countenance to that view. Mr Stewart thereupon wrote to the Local Press the letter of which I enclose a copy. The leading paper referred to this letter and said that "the impression that the cost of the Railway is excessive and that money has been wasted" dated from the "discussion" in Finance Committee on 23rd January, 1908, when the Honourable Mr. Keswick and Honourable Mr. Hewett had adversely criticised the expenditure, and the former had called it "an extraordinary sum for a Railway 22 miles long". 9. In my second statement to the Council, I did my best to remove the impression that Mr. Bruce's estimate could be taken as a statement of the probable cost of the line, and that the Railway would in consequence cost more than double the original estimate, and while refraining from any further allusion to the unfortunate bridges, I dwelt on the difficulties of forecasting the cost of so long a Tunnel. Having discharged myself Page 480 Page 481

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५ Enclosure 6. 407 Association, proposed to write to the Press to remove it. I told him that I should welcome anything Mr. Stewart should write in that sense for I had no reason to believe that there had been any disregard of economy or extravagance in carrying out the work, and nothing I had said in my speech could properly give countenance to that view. Mr Stewart thereupon wrote to the Local Press the letter of he bliad which I enclose a copy. The leading paper referred to this that "the impression that'the cost of the Railway is ex- "-cessive and that money has been wasted' dated from the "discussion" in Finance Committee on 23rd. January, 1908, when the Honourable Mr. Keswick and Honourable Mr. Hewett had adversely criticised the expenditure, and the former had called it "an extraordinary sum for a Railway 22 miles long". 9. In my second statement to the Council, I did my best to remove the impression that Mr. Bruce's estimate could be taken as a statement of the probable cost of the line, and that the Railway would in consequence cost more than double the original estimate, and while refraining from any further allusion to the unfortunate bridges, I dwelt on the difficulties of fore- -casting the cost of so long a Tunnel. Having discharged myself Page 480Page 481

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Enclosure 6.

407

Association, proposed to write to the Press to remove it.

I told him that I should welcome anything Mr. Stewart

should write in that sense for I had no reason to believe

that there had been any disregard of economy or extravagance

in carrying out the work, and nothing I had said in my

speech could properly give countenance to that view. Mr

Stewart thereupon wrote to the Local Press the letter of

he bliad

which I enclose a copy. The leading paper referred to this

that "the impression that'the cost of the Railway is ex-

"-cessive and that money has been wasted' dated from the

"discussion" in Finance Committee on 23rd. January, 1908,

when the Honourable Mr. Keswick and Honourable Mr. Hewett

had adversely criticised the expenditure, and the former

had called it "an extraordinary sum for a Railway 22 miles

long".

In my second statement to the

Council, I did my best to remove the impression that Mr.

Bruce's estimate could be taken as a statement of the

probable cost of the line, and that the Railway would in

consequence cost more than double the original estimate,

and while refraining from any further allusion to the

unfortunate bridges, I dwelt on the difficulties of fore-

-casting the cost of so long a Tunnel. Having discharged

myself

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