§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, if he will say who was the consulting engineer from whom the Colonial Office obtained the information, subsequently found to be incorrect, that Mr. Slessor's estimate for the construction and equipment of the Johore Railway contemplated a light and inferior line; whether the Colonial Office has taken any corrective notice of that suuply to it of information contrary to fact; and whether the same consulting engineer is still retained for the defence of the Crown Agents Department, and unchecked information accepted from him?
§ Colonel SEELYThe consulting engineers for the Federated Malay States railways are Messrs. Gregory, Eyles, and Waring. The information as to Mr. Slessor's estimate was derived from that firm, Mr. Slessor having given a copy of his report to Sir Charles Gregory, to whom he had formerly been an assistant. We have seen no evidence to show that the information derived from Messrs. Gregory, Eyles, and Waring is in any way incorrect.