§ Colonel IVOR PHILIPPSasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how far the railway has been opened beyond Kuala Semantan towards the Kelantan frontier, and to what point the permanent survey has been completed; whether the trial surveys have been made from Kuala Tembeling to the Pahang-Kelantan frontier; and, if so, whether the route to be followed by the railway on entering Kelantan has yet been decided upon?
Mr. HARCOURTI have no information later than the end of November last. At that date the line was only open as far as Triang (fifty-six miles from Gemas), but the rails had been linked in for a distance of seventy-three miles from Gemas, and considerable progress had been made with the earthwork of the Semantan-Kuala 1699W Tembeling section. The permanent survey was completed as far as the Kelantan boundary in May last. A survey of the country beyond that boundary was begun on the 1st June last, and twenty-seven miles of trial survey had been completed by the end of October. I am not aware precisely what route is being surveyed.