CO129-628-13 Compensation- requisitioned railway materials and stores 1-2-1950 - 30-4-1951 — Page 46

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Beenleigh Road Kuraby

15th

June 1950

H.P. Hall Ref/10 54447/5/50

See 8

Dear Mr Hall

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Re, the (600) Six Hundred Wagons requisitioned from the Chinese government on behalf of the Director General Transportation, middle East.

I can quite understand the position of the War Office with regards to the manufacture of the steel castings in India. Here is the picture as I see it

The Howloon banton Railway received an order for forting, checking marking and preparing for ship- - ment material for (600) Six Hundred Wagons.

These materials were not held in stock by the Kowloon banton Railway (B.S.) as quoted in your letter. Para πI. They were held and stored in Hong Kong by The Chinese Government, ministry of Communications; who supplied me with the invoices & blue prints

Owing to lack of proper storage space, this material was very widely distribuited about the colony. mainly in three places the horth Point. Kai Jack and the reclamation Chatham Road. The material was so badly -stored for checking against the Invoices, that a Chinese

Copy to WC. (12)

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