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(a)

(b)

(2)

concerns merely entering into an Agreement:-

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For the sharping of cost of working of the Junction Station

at Sam Chun.

The quoting of rates to either side of the Junction by

each Section with a view to through booking.

(c) The hire to be paid by one Section to the other for the

use of Stock running over its line when carrying passen-

gers and goods.

4.

The third is to work the two Sections under separate

management and as two distinct concerns and each Section to

grant the other Running Powers over their respective lengths.

The party exercising the Running Powers, doing its own haul and

There paying 80 per cent of the gross receipts to the other.

is no obligation under such a system for the party who gives the

Running Powers to do more than to receive and despatch trains,

and all other services to enable goods to reach their destina-

tion whether in the way of storage, craneage, etc. have to be

paid for separately.

5. The Joint Working or first system has been prepared by

us as being the fairest solution of the problem, as being the

more economical in working, and as tending to greater efficiency

both in the maintenance-of the way and works, as well as in

affic working and the studying of the convenience of the

Public.

6. The advantages of this method apply equally over the 2nd

and 3rd proposals:

(1)

The cost of superior supervision is reduced.

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(2)

Two workshops have been provided, one on each Section.

The size and capacity of the Workshops on the British

Section and presumably on the Chinese have been designed

in such a way as to cope with work on the assumption that

Stock would be pooled. Hence unless the work of repair

and any Capital work in extensions is equally divided between the two shops there will be an overload on the

Chinese

and a