THE EXPERT QUESTION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11534, 17 March 1903, Page 5

THE EXPERT QUESTION.

Seeu last night by ;i representative of '•"Ihe Press. ,, Mr E. Allo, who hue been inspecting and reporting jn electrical power schemes iv this and other pans of the colony, said that he bad rend, '.he published correspondence which had tnk;:» place between the Premier and I\i ;• T. x--Tayior, M.H.R. Whilst freely adaiiiring that .his primary business in the colony was in tonii?ction vi'h iho firm of ek-c----fiicai-li.vdiaulio machinery manufacturers he rvpi-wwnU- —the Ovi- ,- likijn, near Zurich—hi> stoutly conttr.'l.-d that iv reporting on the varinusi Fcheuwis he 4iad not allowed his eomieetion with Uulinii to ink'rkre with his judgment of them. Hβ pointed out that the correspondence had ensued before Mr Taylor met him and had a conversation with him, and. though Mr Allo did not way so in as mnny words, lie gave the impression that. Mr Tay'or'.s point of view had Ikhii souvewhat altered after that conversation. He. liowt-ver, meiitiorcd that after he (Mr All*') had applied lwfore the Waimakariri Spatial and had addressed it. Mr Taylor w;is the in.-m----b'T who proposed a vote rff thanks t<> him. Mi Allo Miid liv lwd no apprehensions with regard to whateve: , reports may heieaftcr be'inatif on the seheni.* wlnn eompaivd with the reports hv h:»i made on them.

Willi repaid to the Wahuakr.riri and Rakaiit Scheie*, he ivninrkc-d that of the twn he «till tinii'y considered the Rnkaiu.' liver offered the bettor of the two.. Before leaving the South Island Mr All" said hf wished to express Ids appreciation of the kindri.'-w he has received, and his hope tiiiit the various tleetrical schemes, if undertaken,, would prove successful.

Whilst in Wellington Mr AUo will prepare and present to the Premier his repoit on the various electrical power schetiu*. He purposes leaving for Sydney on Saturday, and after spending a fortnight in Australia he will leave for Japan, returning to Europe by the Siberian railway.