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possible by working under a Joint management.
47 the disadvantage of the Second system is:-
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(1) The extra cost involved in supervision necessitated by
separate management,
(2) The fact that in the case of the "hineso larger workshops ̧.
would have to be maintained while in our case they would
practically lie idle..
(3) The unecononical distribution of engine lengths.
(4) the introduction of a third terminus in the Junction Static
at van hun an utterly inconvenient and unjustiæbly
expensive prooeeding in so short a distance.
(6) Unless the provisions of the working agreement as proposed
by us be adhered to in the framing of rates no other
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rate quoted to junction would be of the slightest use in attracting traffic and enabling us to compete with
the water borne traffic from Wanton..
(6) Evan supposing a mutually satisfactory arrangement as
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regarda rates were arrived at, there would be no uniformit
of system for working end timing trains, and it seems hardly possibly that such could be arrived at under a dual control, moreover there must ever be present the dis- inclination to provide terminals unrenumerative in the-
selves which otherwise would conduce to expansion of
business.
Against the third proposal the same objection as to a satisfactory arrangement of function rates bolds, He would
running nover consent to grant the/boyers unless it were profitable to us and unless we had a guarantee that by doing so the Chinese. would on their side attract and bring over the British Fection the through traffic fromCanton and eventually from fankow. We should require a guarantee as to tʊe minimum train load and number of trains to be run either way and the arrangement would
not be to the advantage of “hinese, there would be a difficulty
in dealing with traffic once it were received here and the
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