CO129-530-4 Development of Canton to Kowloon railway 1-12-1930 - 1-12-1930 — Page 32

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upen and that Kesere. Bowden Brothers fearing that they might experience difficulty in obtaining the balance of payment agreed instead to depoelt a sum deliverable only to the joint order of thecselves and a nominee of the Ministry of tailways.

7. It seems almost unbei iovaule that an

institution whose own credit ie suot as is that

aaob

of the Ministry of ailways, a Ministry soreover mugee #LOBO anjaid creditors are mainly British, should have the effrontery to hold up vitally important work on the shallow pretext that a British firm, walon bee earved 1t 20 ad sirably in the part, might prove undependable in the fulfilment of a contra:

to the exoellence

of this firm's work it is only necessary to quote Er. Lia, The Managing-Director of the Failway, when he

states in a telegrum to toe rurohaming Commission of 3rd June *ge have found the said fire very dependable 40 we Dave had several transactions before;" or again a letter of the engineer-in-Chief to the kanaging Director of E8th June which states *1 nave asked the

Engineer of ways and works to point out to you to- sorrow the rue sleepers whion were laid in our track in 1928. A# you will see for yourself these sleeperB have now started to rot after two yeare service, while the Dew South sajos aleepers bought from lesere. Bowden er there in 1981 and 1926 are still in good condition after 9 years. The total number of

Singapore and Yanile sleepers bought in the last & yours equale approximately 49,000 and the rot in these aleepers as now commenced.

30 So you will see for

yourself/