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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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(D.T.D.)
22 August. 1967
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Water.
The Director of Water Supplies announced this Tuesday morning that from tomorrow water will be on for twenty-four hours a day.
"Thanks to tropical storm Kate water storage has increased dramatically by over three thousand million gallons to fourteen thousand eight hundred million gallons.
Our existing reservoirs are eighty-eight per cent full and some of them are overflowing.'
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The twenty-four hours supply is only temporary but it will continue at least for next few days.
In announcing this today Mr. Robertson said:
"Even when reservoirs stop overflowing we won't have to go back to supply every fourth day. New supply hours will depend to some extent of run-off and rainfall in next two or three days.
An announcement giving details of new supply hours and zones will be made before end of this week."
Mr. Robertson concluded by saying that if storage continues to improve then with water from China which under agreement starts on 1 October "we shall be able to maintain a daily supply (though perhaps not (repeat not) for twenty-four hours daily) throughout winter."
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