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opinion that there are reasonable grounds for this expecte-

-tion. I am myself less optimistic. Secondly if it be

assumed that the expansion of traffic will take place, it

remains for consideration whether in view of so rapid and

presumably increasing a traffic the building of piers

would be preferable to an extension of the reclamation to

deep water. It must also be borne in mind that as the

Railway and reclaimed land is owned by the Colonial

Government it is immaterial from the point of view of

Revenue whether the rental price accrues from this Railway.

Reclamation or from any other unoccupied Crown Land. Proxi-

-mity of the coal depot to the Railway may be useful in

slightly reducing the cost of coal to the Railway, but it

is improbable that it will ever offer a profitable freight

since if its destination is Canton it would be hardly

remunerative to compete against the rates at which it is

carried by junks, while after the completion of the

Hankow line coal may be exported from the coal-fields of

Hunan, and will be in competition with Japanese coal. Kr.

Lindsey, however, thinks it possible that the Railway may

be able to carry coal profitably to canton, provided the

trucks have a back-load which may be found in Limestone

for the Cement Works. If cheap Chinese coal is exported

from