CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8] — Page 219

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Copy of Statement of Calculation forwarded by Ministry of

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The original Memorandum states that the Board of Posts and Columunications telegraphed on November 7, 1911, to the Governor requesting that the running of ordinary trains on the Canton-Kowloon Railway might be temporarily suspended from November 7 to November 12, the traffic losses to be dealt with in accordance with the Agreement.

The Ministry of Communications admits a liability under the Canton-Kowloon Working Agreement for compensation for five days, from November 7 to 12, and the report of the investigations of the Canton-Kowloon Railway Office states that, according to the Agreement, such compensation must be calculated on the average receipts for the month of that year preceding the suspension of

traffic; that the average daily receipts for the preceding month of that year amounted to One Hundred and Sixty-three dollars and eighteen cents, making the total compensation due for five days Eight hundred and fifteen dollers and ninety cents.

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815.90

The original Memorandum further quotes a communication from the Governor of Hongkong to the effect that, owing to the disturbed state of the districts through which the line runs, it

was not possible to resume through traffic until until December

14. It adds the provision of Article 7 of the Working Agreement that compensation for suspension of through traffic shall be paid by the Government requesting such suspension at a daily rate of

half the average gross receipts of the other Section on through traffic for the corresponding month of the previous year. It goes

on to state that the average gross receipts on through traffic of

the British Section for the Lonth preceding November 7th. amounted

to three hundred and seventy dollars per diem, or, by a reduction of one-half, to One hundred and eighty-five dollars, and that the

amount due as compensation for the suspension of traffic for 36

days is equal to Six thousand seven hundred and fifty (siç n.b.

750.50. this is an error for 86,752.50) dollars and fifty cents.

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