CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6] — Page 499

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These are

OFFICE EXPENSES & HOME CHARGES: impossible to estimate at the beginning of a work.

Local office expenses depend on the number of returne

it is necessary to make, etc. which cannot be foreseen except on a system which has been running for a long time as is the case on Indian Railways.

Home charges I cannot possible foresee as

I

I only get debits from the Crown Agents for this. can only average out by the monthly debits sent me

through the Treasury.

In conclusion I would state that I consider

it beyond the power of any Engineer to estimate in detail accurately for a Railway such as this is in a new country. Even in India where Railways have been constructed for a very long time the first estimate is almost invariably under the final one. No Railway Contractor could possibly hope to make an un- -iform profit on every item of his tender, he must

always count on losing on certain items and making up the losses on others. It is just the same on departmental work estimating except that in the latter such a high percentage is not put on to cover contingencies. For similar reasons I cannot give the exact causes of small excesses and savings when dealing with such large figures. The original estimate of June 1907 was the only one in which I had time to go into any detail, the estimates in my re- ports for 1907 and 1908 were only in round figures

and as I stated before without a very large accurate

figure and trained accounts staff it would be impossible to give accurate figures in detail.

Some

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