HC Deb 01 May 1906 vol 156 cc382-3
SIR C. HILL (Shrewsbury)

To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will grant a Return showing the railways constructed or in course of construction by the Crown Agents on the West Coast of Africa since 1900 inclusive, their mileage, the original estimate of their cost, and the actual cost of construction per mile so far as known.

(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) The hon. Member appears to be under some misapprehension. The Crown Agents for the Colonies do not construct railways. The manner in which the Government railways in West Africa have been constructed is explained in the Paper relating to the construction of railways in Sierra Leone, Lagos, and the Gold Coast [Cd. 2325], which was presented to Parliament in December, 1904, and in which will be found also the particulars for which the hon. Member asks.