CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930 — Page 171

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The following scheme is proposed for rehabilitation of the

railway, paying off its outstanding debts other than amortisation

in arrears, and providing the funds necessary for improvements:-

1. The sum to be provided is $4,000,000 of which the

Government will provide $1,000,000 while an additional loan of $3,000,000 will be raised,

2. The amount of $4,000,000 to be used as follows t-

Goverment Advance.

Lo an

Total

Renewal of sleepers Purchase of Conches terest in arrears Trustees Ramuneration Advanoes from

B. & C. Corporation

**

*

Ubligations for materials

360.000

300,000

360,000 300,000

2.750,962

2,750,962

67,549

67,549

71.099

71,099

(2)

336.035

336,035

91,003

91,003

Unpaid wages

55,469

55,469

Domestic Loan

55,193

55,193

To tal

1,087,038

3,000,272

037,310

Lese estimated surplus

for 1929

90.000

10.000

100,000

Total 3 997,038

2,990,272

3,987,310

3. A moratorium of eleven years (including the five years previous to and including 1929) to be dealared in regard

to the amortisation of the original loan.

4. The amortisation of the new loan to bogin at once with an in itial payment of $400,000 at the end of the first year increasing yearly by $50,000 until the whole loan is repaid. This will permit repayment to be made in six years.

5. The attached table shows the amounts due each year for the interest on the original loan, the interest on, and amortisation of the new loan, and the amortisation of the original loan when that is resumed on the expáry of the moratorium In this table the rate of exchange has been taken as $11.00 21.

The Government to guarantee that a sum equal to one twelfth of the annual amount required as shewn by the table referred to shall be set aside each month from the receipts of the railway, or if the said receipts are not sufficient, then the sum shall be provided by the Government from sther sources.

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