Informal Conference with Mr. F. Bedford Glasier, on the Subject of the Lagos Railway, held at the Exchange Station Hotel, on Monday, April 27th, 1903, African Trade Section of the Incorporated Chamber of Commerce (Liverpool: C. Tinling & Co. printers, 1903).

With regard to railways, the authors want the railways at once. Mr. Glasier is purely a man representing the Colonial Office, and he perfectly certain, when they have heard his statement, they will be glad to help him to extend the line at Lagos. Up to the present they have not had time to educate the natives in railway matters; the native, as the reader knows, is not fond of work far from it, he resents work. As regards the extension of the Lagos Railway, as he has explained, he is interested in its ultimate success, and his view is to extend it immediately, for until it has reached its natural objective it cannot be fully remunerative. If the Government cannot do it, then they must get to work in the same manner and on the same lines as the Canadian Pacific Railway was constructed.