§ Sir W. de FRECEasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the amounts of the original estimates of costs and times for completion of the various sections of the Accra-Kumasi Railway; and the actual final costs and times occupied in the completion of each separately constructed section?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREThe estimate for the cost of the Accra-Mangoase section which was executed by contract was 63W £165,614, and the estimated time two years. The actual cost of this section was £353,000, and the time 3¼ years. The remaining sections were constructed departmentally. The Mangoase-Koforidua section was estimated to cost £130,000, and the actual cost, was £102,164. No estimate of the time of construction was made, but the actual time was about 10 months. The Koforidua-Tafo extension, which was completed in the war, viz., on 1st January, 1917, cost £115,593, but owing to the war conditions no previous estimate was made. The remaining section to Kumasi constructed after the War at a time of great oscillation of prices was estimated to cost £1,668,000, and actually cost £2,142,000, and the time occupied was 3½ years.