§ MR. HUDSON () Hertfordshire, HitchinTo ask the Postmaster General, as representing the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether he can state if any, and, if so, which railways in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony are bing extended at the present moment, and which lines it is proposed to extend in the near future.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain for the Secretary of State for the Colonies.) Lines are in course of construction from Bloemfontein to Ficksburg and from Vereeniging to johannesburg. Surveys are also being or have been made for lines from Harrismith to Vereeniging, from Sannah's Post to Wepener, from Springs to Machadodorp, and from Krugersdorp to Rustenburg, and other lines are under consideration as to which the information at present avaliable is too incomplete ot make it possible to arrive at a decision.