CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8] — Page 197

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of Outwards. It is only reasonable and fair that the exceptional

conditions under which the stoppage occurred should be taken into

account in arriving at the compensation due by the Chinese

Government. Even if Traffic were to be resumed at once it will be

some time before the position arrived at, at time of closing can

be regained, and the stoppage will adversely affect the receipts

at the time when the Railway has to gain as much as possible in

order to put by for the rainy day which comes in May and goes on to

the end of August and the consequent bad times.

Assuming then that under normal conditions

the receipt would have gone up 50% per fortnight that is 25% per

week average for the rest of the time, no unfair assumption during

the month of November We arrive at the following figures which

for easy reference I take in round figures.

Week ending 28th. October Inwards and Outwards - 82,000

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earnings as $19,740 from which we should deduct three days for

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earnings let. December of 85.800 = $828.00 or $1,899.00 in all

total 817,741.00 or a rate of 8591.00 per diem. Taking half of

this in terms of the Working Agreement we should receive a daily

rate $295.00 say $300 as compensation during November. Should the

cessation of Traffic go on in December it would be fair to assume

that the figures would still increase. On the British Section last year due to natural development and Christmas Traffic, the increase over the November receipts was about 33% so that for every day of December we should claim 394.00 or say $400 per diem.

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