CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8] — Page 198

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In case it may be urged that the above figures of development are exaggerated and that the development was

due to the exodus from Canton your attention is drawn to the in-

-crease of the Outward Traffic for the week ending November 4th.

This was Traffic to the Chinese Section and not from Canton at

all and the increase was £1,946 less $1,257 8689 rather more

than 54%.

Thus we have arrived that the amount claimable

in the strict wording of the Working Agreement should be £205.00 per diem against which we urge that the cessation of traffic came at an abnormal time when the line had had no time for natural

and fair development and accordingly a truer and fairer figure is represented by a claim of $300 a day, during November, and fol further development 8400 a day during December.

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But in addition to the above which represents

the loss on norval traffic we are entitled to what would have been

our share of the abnormal traffic that prevailed and which was bound to come to the Railway owing to the steamers not running on Sundays. To arrive at this figure in the figures for normal traf- -fic I have assumed the development during the week ending 4th. November to have been 82,500. As a fact the actual receipts were 85,043 thus the amount of abnormal traffic at the week end brought to the Railway was say $2,500 per week. Now this traffic cost us nothing additional to carry and therefore it is not fair to deduct 50% for Working Expenses which was the idea which governed the framing of the claim of the Working Agreement, and bearing in mind the rich harvest reaped by the River Steamers, it is only fair to suppose that the Railway would have had its share. Thus a further sum of $2,500 per week from the week ending 11th. November should be claimed and this makes the amount claimable to

the 1st. December an ₫ additional 10,000.

I would ask therefore that a sum of $300 a

day be claimed for the stoppage of Traffic during November plus $10,000 on account of abnormal traffic and for December at the rate of $400 a day plus a sum of $2,500 a week for abnormal

traffic.