CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930 — Page 100

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wishes me to place on record the importance which his

Government attach to the execution at an early date of

measures calculated to place the Chinese section on a

sound basis.

I have the honour to enclose for the information of

the competent department of Your xeellenoy' a nevarnaant

a statement of the improvements and repaire which in the

opinion or the Government of Hong Kong are required on

of

the Chinese section in order to increase the earnings of

the whole line to their full capacity. It will be seen

from the mclosed statement that disproportionate dalla

have recently been made upon the British section of the

railway to provide locomotives and coaching stock to

meet the requirements of through-traffie over the whole

line, and that even so the extra 100omotives and coaches

provided by the British section cannot be exploited to

their full earning capacity for the benefit of the joint

parse of the railway owing to defects in the track on the

Chinese section.

5.

In the circumstances I should be grateful if Your Ex-

cellency would call the serious attention of the Ministry

of Railways to the needs of the Canton-Kowloon line and re-

quest that the necessary meŭsures of rehabilitation on

Chinese section may be undertaken as soon as possible in

order to place this joint Sine-British enterprise on a

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