§ MR. R. W. PERKS (Lincolnshire, Louth)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether there is any agreement between the promoters of the Mombaza and Uganda Railway and the Crown Agents for the Colonies, under which the Crown Agents undertake to purchase materials, stores, and rolling stock for the railway; if so, whether he will cause a copy of any such agreement to be presented to Parliament?
§ *THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERThere are no promoters of the railway in question. The superintendence of the work is intrusted to a Committee, whose names were given in a Paper on the Uganda Railway Bill recently presented to Parliament. Sir Montagu Ommanney, one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies, is a member of 927 the Committee, and the necessary purchases are being made through his office; but there is no formal agreement.
§ *THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERNo, Sir; Sir Montagu Ommanney acts under the authority of the Committee.
§ *THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERSir Montagu Ommanney is.