CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4] — Page 314

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of cost but Mr. H. P. Winslow believes that the amounts he has estimated will be sufficient. The question will now however be gone into in detail and I will address you further at the earliest possible date on the subject. In the meantime I enclose tracing of a plan for the Station which was suggested by the late Mr. E. S. Lindsey. This plan is of course only intended to convey a general idea of the arrangements that are believed to be most convenient and suitable if the Station is built on Kowloon Marine

Lots 3, 74 and 75.

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Locomotives. The sum of $140,000 under Head of Charge IX Plant (e) Loco, Rolling Stock is intended to cover the cost of 4 locomotives, namely (1) the locomotive ordered by indent No. 21 dated 9th. February, 1911, and provided for in Railway Capital Expenditure 1911, which provision however lapsed on 31st. December owing to non-delivery it has now been shipped: (2) the engine included under K.-C. Railway Special Expenditure in this year's Estimates which Sir F. D. Lugard explained in para- -graph & of his Despatch No. 390 of 16th. of last November was necessitated by this Government's engagements with China under the Draft Joint Working Agreement but which for reasons to be stated in a later paragraph I propose should be charged to capital to be provided by loan and not to railway earnings: (3) the engine the 1132V purchase of which I advocated in my Despatch No. 119 of 29th.

March on the ground that on arrival of the two new engines short- -ly expected from England the two now in service would have to be

subjected to an overhaul occupying two or three months, that a

rapid increase was expected in the through traffic as soon as the

country became a little more settled and that in the near future

it might be desirable to run the engines of the British Section

through to the Chinese Section; and (4) an additional locomotive

for the Fanling Brunch which is now only provided with two.

Addition to Engine Shops. With the purchase

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of the two engines referred to in the preceding paragraph the

number of main line engines, excluding a small construction

engine now being used on the Fanling Branch, will amount to five,

necessitating