ABSTRACT
The Committee adopted the method of examining in detail the expenditure of every branch of the Gold Coast Railway and Takoradi Harbour, as classified in the various Abstracts into which the Estimates of the Department are divided. In the Legislative Council during September last the Gold Coast Railway had been adversely criticised and unfavourably contrasted with the Nigeria system on account of the cost per mile of the maintenance of the line. Incidentally the Chief Mechanical Engineer informed the Committee that the engines on the Nigerian Railway consume 22 lbs. of fuel per engine-mile more than his engines. The Committee was informed that at the present time there is no African in the Railway Service of sufficiently wide experience of Railway work to render him competent for appointment as Office Assistant. Passenger fares are at present one penny a mile plus 15 per cent and this form of traffic is suffering heavily under road competition.
