With regard to the main extension from Turbo to Luzinga, I have been advised that invitations to firms in this country to tender for the work would involve an extra delay of 12 months in beginning work, and I have therefore decided that, when the surveys and staking out have been completed, and I have received and considered a full estimate of the cost of the line, the work shall be undertaken departmentally, with a free use of local competitive contract for particular parts of the construction. The question will be separately considered for other lines, but the Thika-Tana River branch, which is not one of the lines covered by the £3,500,000 assisted loan, is already under construction on the same basis. So far as I am aware, no expenditure under that loan has been incurred, except on the surveys, which were authorised before the Vote was passed. Construction of the Turbo-Luzinga line is expected to be begun by the 1st January next.