This,
of course, reviewed the whole subject of our inquiry and embodied our
final conclusions and recommendations. To the credit of the Commission
be it said, these conclusions and recommendations were entirely
unanimous, as also were those in each of our Interim Reports, published
in connection with the Dominions separately.
In this Final Report the subject of railways was not included. Railways
of course formed part of our inquiry, but they were dealt with in our
Interim Reports.
To a large extent railways were more a matter of domestic than of
Imperial concern, but as the development of the resources of the
Dominions depended greatly upon the adequacy of railway transit, the
subject came within the province of our inquiry. I will not trouble the
reader with statistics (which can be readily obtained elsewhere) beyond
the following statement which represented, at the time we made our
investigations, the railway mileage and the population in each Dominion
compared with the United Kingdom:--
Miles of Population. Number of
Railway. Inhabitants
per Mile of
Railway.
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