200 Timehri. 



The Honourable A. B. Brown, member of the Court of Policy, was 

 asked to serve on the Committee. He regretted that owing to pressure 

 of business, he was unable to do so. The Honourable B. G. Duncan, 

 member of the Executive Council and of the Court of Policy, the 

 Honourable Wm. Whyte. and J. Downer, members of the Court of 

 Policy. Dr. J. M. Bohlehr and Mr. S. S. Wreford, Financial Bepresenta- 

 tives, were unavoidably absent. Mr. G. B. Bussell Garnett and Mr. B. 

 E. Brassington, (Financial Representatives) being absent from the colony 

 were unable to attend. Mr. Mewburn Garnett, who was appointed on 

 the Committee to represent the gold and diamond industries, left the 

 colony before the meeting of the Committee. Mr. C. E. Bice was 

 appointed in Mr. Garnett's place but owing to his absence in the interior, 

 Mas unable to be present on the 20th April. 



The Honourable J. B. Laing was proposed as chairman by the 

 Honourable the Government Secretary, and was unanimously elected. 

 After considerable discussion it was proposed, and unanimously carried, 

 that a Sub-Committee be formed to go into the whole question and 

 formulate resolutions for discussion at the Committee's next meeting. 



The following gentlemen were appointed members of the Sub- 

 Committee : — 



The Hons. J. B. Laing, Chairman ; C. Clementi, J. J. Nunan, J. 

 Hampden King, E. C. Buck, and A. P. Sherlock, Messrs. C. W. Prest, J. S. 

 McArthur, and J. Duke Smith. 



The Sub-Committee held two meetings and drafted ten resolutions 

 which were submitted at the meeting of the Committee held on Monday, 

 the 4th May, 1914, when all the members (including Mr. Duncan, Mr. 

 Downer, Dr. Bohlehr, Mr. Wreford and Mr. Bice, who were absent from 

 the first meeting of the Committee) were present, except Mr. C. F. 

 Wieting who had left the colony in the interval. 



Considerable discussion in public took place on the resolutions and 

 several amendments thereto were passed. 



The resolutions us amended, and unanimously adopted, are as 

 follows : — 



1. This Committee strongly supports the proposal to construct a 

 Hinterland Bailway if combined with a colonization and development 

 scheme ; and recommends : — 



2. That work on the railway shall be open to all labourers free in the 

 colony. 



3. That immigrants under contract be imported yearly for the first 

 five years to replace the labourers withdrawn from the coastal and river 

 districts for work on the Bailway and for taking up land under the 

 colonization scheme. 



4. That the railway shall be of metre gauge so as to allow of trans- 

 continental railway communication without change of engine or 

 carriage. 



