CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3] — Page 359

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Reservoir until such time as the Tytan Tuk Extension

Scheme is taken in hand and completed and that as regards

the purchase of land no reply could be given until

more

definite proposals are before the Government, and the

exact area which he desires is defined, with the class of

lease under which the various portions are to be held. I

also desired fuller information regarding the Tunnel, and

its prolongation at either end before sanction could be

accorded. When this information was before me I could (I

said) judge whether there was any reasonable prospect of

the scheme being put through, since it was undesirable on

the one hand that the Government should be associated with

an abortive scheme in which the investors would lose their

money (the capital he told me would be raised in England)

or on the other hand that the scheme should be left

derelict as an unsightly failure detrimental to Crown

property.

5.

To this letter Senor Pescio

replied through his Solicitors on October 12th., 1909,

(copy attached) and I enclose the answer of the Colonial

Secretary of the 29th. idem. Your Lordship will observe

that no satisfactory answer was given to the questions

asked, and the matter remained in abeyance until I

received