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RAIN WATER IMPURITIES
In this hy means of a tippler arrangement which works automati- cally the first portion of rain is collected and discharged into the
depth, but merely to füdicate that its bottom lies above this stratum. A much better name is surface well, which indicates, as is the case, that the water derived from it is mainly surface well.
Being surface water it is liable to be polluted, containing the im- purities which it has picked up on; its way over and through the soil; Unless such a well is very carefully constructed and protected since it draws from a radius extending to f about four times its depth and
of the Company will be held at
`Although an individual could and the Offices of the General Mann- gers, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & many individuals do find smallor Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong quantities adequate, in the majority Kong. on WEDNESDAY, the 19th of towns in order to meet various June, 1929, at Noon for the pur-requirements, an allowance of from house drains, and not until this has forms a sort of catchpit for all sur-1 pose of receiving the Report of
the Directors, passing the counts, and electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from male the 12th Jane to 3rd July, 1929, Reply both days inclusive.
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By Order of the Board
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 24th May, 1929,
20 to 30 gallons of water per head of the population per day is sen- erally made.
Shallow Wells
been got rid of is a way through face washings and for the drainage to the collecting tank provided. Inom manure heaps, leaky drains, some places some dependence is placed upon this apparatus, but in and caspools, the water which it the majority of instances no such yields may be very grossly pollutted. precautions are taken,
Shallow wells are rarely used as any size. In villages the whole sources of supply for populations supply may come from them, how.... ever, and quite commonly cottages and even mansions in country dis-]
Risks of Rain Water
There
Of this amount at least half is supposed to be used for drinking, cooking, bathing, washing, and other domestic purposes, the re-
As a source of supply rain water maining half providing for trade and
street is somewhat uncertain and is apt communal purposes, washing, public batha and lava- to fail when most required. tories, with a certain proportion are some risks of pollution, but for unavoidable waste.
apart from these it is fairly pala In districts in which there are table and, because it is soft, from few or no water closets a smaller the domestic point of view, has quantity will be sufficient, but in some advantages. That there is towns at least the amounts named a necessity, where rainwater butts are allowed. In London, for in- are used, for preventing them from stance, the allowance is 284, and becoming breeding-places for mos- quitoes has already been mentioned.
LAMMERT BROS.in Glasgow 50 gallons, In St.
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TUESDAY, June 18, 1929, commencing at 230 p.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
A Valuable Collection of CURIOS
Helens, in Lancashire, the allow- ance for domestic purposes is 25 gallons and for other purposes 13 gallons.
strata.
The fact that, being soft, rain water is apt to act upon lead should. ensure that this metal is not em- ployed in the construction of the tanka in which it is stored.
Surface Water is the rain water which has reached the ground and is on its way to join a stream or If other collector of such water. it is to be used as a source of supply some means of catching it must be provided, and as it is liable to obtain impurities from the ground upon which falls and over which it flows attention must be given to purification before it is used.
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in a great variety of colours. All moderately priced.
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FRONT GANDEN
POLLUTION
STAFF WELL
IL MASOLL
DELE
POLLUTIONE
SHOWING VARIOUS SOURCES
OF
Sources of Water Primarily ali water is de- rived from the condensed moisture descending upon the earth, as rain dew, snow or hall. After it has fallen some of it re- turns whence it came as the result of the evaporation caused by the heat of the sun,
the remainder either flowing along the surface of the ground to fall into rivers or lakes, or percolating through the such collections as soil to reach
In many quite large distrita aur- these or to appear again as springs face water collected from high, open Comprising- FOR SALE-"Barkers," Sai Wan A Porcelain Bowls, Vases, old through cracks or fissures in the stretches of moorland is used, tricts may obtain their water from In such cases the well flae 4-Roomed Bungalow with large Bronze, Jade, Crystal and Amber
The underground water is special methods to be referred to such wells. Garden. Excellent Bathing facilities Ornaments, Porcelain Inlaid Fold also fed by it, level varying with later, being adopted in connection should not be too close to the Ideal place for Summer Hotel. For
house. Further, it should be as full particulars apply Box No. 595 ing Screens. Lacquer Cupboards, the amount of water falling on with its collection and treatment.
Springs and Wells
far as possible from, and if the c/o China Mail."
Chairs and Stools, Embroidered the ground surface.
Water supplies
The water that Mandarin Coats,
may be derived
percolates ground slopes, at a higher level Skirts and
its
down- than the privy, the cesspool, the journey Jewellery directly from the rain water; from continues Blackwood
the the water flowing over the surface; ward through
Bot] until manure heap, and any other possible
source of pollution. which the surface water falls, or layer of the earth's crust that is To ensure that the water enter from the percolated water through non-porous or only partially so. ing the well from distant points To this layer or stratum the name shall have undergone a certain springs or wells.
"Impermeable stratum" is given. amount of filtration, the bottom What becomes of the water there should be made the only point of after depends mainly upon the entry. The walls should be carri- nature
of and condition.
this ed down to the water level at least stratum. If it is cracked or and be built of bricks, jointed in fissured some may pass on through cement and backed with a thick the openings until a deeper im- layer of puddled clay, ie, clay permeable stratum is encountered, thoroughly worked up with water or, in the case of chalk, for example, and well pounded in. into cavities in the stratum itself; or it may simply remain on the surface of the impermesile stratum, forming part of the great body of water, which, as already indicated. is known as the underground water; or because the impermeable stratum is exposed or has "outcropped" at
SALE-Wharfedale Printing Shawls, Press, in excellent condition. Will take Sheet Double Demy. Useful for Cases, Jasa Table, Cabinet, Ten from the collections of water into its farther passage is stopped by a Small Printing Shop. Apply Box No tsin Carpets and Rugs, etc.
594, c/o "China Mail.”
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PHOTO - SUPPLIES
Kodake and Cameras.
Films, Plates and Papers, etc.
Developing, Printing and ‘-
2 Enlarging. ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES
Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
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NOTICE
TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS.
The Yuen Wo Seamen'
always has men ship as watch-
Our men
are employed
the leading
guaranteesKLIS.
Catalogues will be issued. On View from Monday, June 17,
1929.
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Auctioneers. Hong Kong, June 13, 1929.
FOR
TIRES
AND SERVICE LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Automobile Dept. C.3193.
BEST COAL & CHEAPEST PRICE KWONG HANG & CO.
Tel. C. 2736."-
43, Des Voeux Road Central Government and Admiralty Coal Contractors, HOUSE COAL.
Peak Upper Level
Middle Level
Central Ofice.
$22.00
}
$21.00
17 JF
$20.00
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Kowloon ...... » $17.00
#
No matter what the source may be, what is required of it is that it can be depended upon as regards whole- quantity, continuity, and someness.
must
To be a good drinking water it be clear, cool, colourless, odourless, and palatable; be moder ately aerated and possess a neutral reaction and no visible sediment, On chemical examination it should show itself to be fairly soft and free from evidences of pollution, It must as far as possible be bacteriologically pure, ie. it must contain no pathogenic organiams and only a small number of other organisms possibly, though it is
difficult to set up a standard, not more than 100 per cc.
Rain Water
face washings the wall should be To prevent the entrance of sur-
carried above the ground level and surrounded by cement sloping downwards and outwards from the In all
top of the wall all round. cases the well should be covered
and the water drawn by means of a pump, and not by a bucket. I
POLLUTION
SURFACE POLLUTIONS
IN THE CRICT OF A SHALLOW
WEAS
KING'S VOICE
IS IT BASS
BARITONE ?
OR
A RECORD'S VERSION
At a time when a special interest will by taken in it the Columbia Company have brought out a record. made by the King at the opening of the new Tyne Bridge, Gateshead, last October.
Most of us have heard the King's voice in one way or another: how _many can describe it off-hand?
don't mean can they describe it as a singing teacher would, but can they say merely whether it is a base or a baritone, gruff or resonent, flat or musical, and whether there are any pecularities in His Majesty's diction?
Range-Finding
I put the question to half-a-dozen friends, all of whom are observant men of affaire who have heard, the King speak of several occasions, Not one agreed entirely with any of and the others. One said the voice was will be 6 s.m. to 8 a.m.
It p.m. to 6 p.m. For the remain-gruff and indistinct, another that
pitch and very clear der of the Peak the hours are 6 was of normal
ia texture; another that it was dis- tinctly unmusical, and so on.
Now
to 10 a.m.
let me give my own testimony, baa-
First all, the recording is very clear. I suspect that a microphone
Meanwhile, the Water Author ity states, more tanks will be ined on this record. operation by to-morrow, obviously to relieve the rush in the lower levels brought on by the cutting down of the time to 81⁄2 hours per day.
the voice is life-like. (So is the dis-
he
was used, but whether it was ex not, creet cough which someone has im- prisoned forever ball-way through, Water from Shanghai and so it someone else's whisper at
the end). The King's diction "Always willing to lend a hand calent, and would be better still f is ex- whenever we can to old friends,"
did not occasionally force his of the officers of voice. You can detect at the begin- remarked one the Dollar Line round-the-worldning how he is feeling for the right He constricts his throat, is s.s. "President Adams," alongside range
pitches voice 100
and Kowbon wharf on Saturday. The explosive (note the word "occasion"); "Adams" brought down 350 tons stumbles
or twe Bat he soon finds the of fresh water from Shanghal and preposition, but over, one two of the Water Boat Co.'s fleet
responsive level, and only in the middle, when he is strozzing the were alongside taking delivery through hoses.
"key" sentence of his speech, does he stray from it again.
The system of bringing water to Hong Kong by ships is being per- tected.
Welcome Shower
The heavy shower on Saturday was not as productive as hoped but, for once, the rainfall seemed to
the guth surface it may re-addition to risks of polution with affect Hong Kong more than it
Tube or Abyssinian Wells are simply shallow wells formed by
did Kowloon,.....
Father and Son
His voice is musical and resonant in its lower natural register; if it were to remain there everybody would comment on its rich bass quality. It risen rather too often into a medium baritone, and then
it becomes hard and "edgy." It falls at the end of avery sentence in a way that used to be thought a fault, but the consonants are pronounced so distinctly (note the word "address" near the begin, too, at nearly
that not a sył
lable is lost. It every comma-a mannerism exhibited also by the Prince--and sometimes rises unexpectedly half-way through a clause. The vowels are well-nigh perfect, with a tendency to "nasalize the "a" in words "may,"
like "trade” and
appear in the form of a spring. a shallow well there is always a
Springa are known as surface or possibility of the supply failing Shortly after tiffin the rain deep springs according to the depth during very dry weather.
came on suddenly and strongly In most of the respects from which the water has come and
but the sun came out again short- named rain water i not too the distance it has travelled, Gen-
ly afterwards as though determin- dependable, and in Britain iterally speaking, the water yielded driving Northon's iron tubes into ed to give a fine week-end.. at $23.00 per ton. is practically only in rural dis-from a surface spring is liable to the soil, using first one that is
Between 2.30 p.m. and 4.30 p.m., tricts and where well or other water have been contaminated in its pointed and perforated and joint just over half an inch of rain was of good quality is unobtainable passage through the soil and to being an additional lengths, until registered at the Royal. Observa
This form tory, Kowloon, the actual figures that it is used. Except in the both unsatisfactory and unsafe for good supply is struck. tropics it is rarely looked to sup- human consumption.··
of well is used chiefly in loose being 0.55 inch, most of which
The subject matter of the speech, Deep Springs
gravelly solls and the water generfell within half an hour, follow- deli-ply the needs of populations of any
ss on all ceremonial occasions, is f ally must be pumped.
ed by mild drizzles.
no great importance, and all that re Taikoo Supply
mains to be said of the record is Reservoirs of the Taikoo Sugar it up in style, with a special jacket that the Columbia Company have got Refinery were well supplied by the and a view of the bridge stamped on downpour on Saturday. They are the vulcanite, the profits are to be now level with the top of the dams. given to Gateshead Hospitals.
---John O'London's Weekly. Talkoo has an excellent catch-
(March 9, 1829). water area from Mount Parker, the valley forming a natural channel through which the rains run direct into the main réservoir.
The above prices include "very charges to destination.
TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to
the ate SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street,
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.
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GUNS AND ACCESSORIES.·
GUNS:-Greener,
&
Webley Scotts RSA, J. W. Needham & Raick Freres-Air fles Revol vers. S. & W-Rifle Accessories Aperture Sights Sporting re quisites Cartridges to suit al bores,
THE HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS & AMMUNITION STORE 5-6, Beaconsfield Arcade.
size.
It is apt to contain a number of Impurities picked ap from the air and from the surfaces, upon which it falls and from which it is col lected.
Near the sea appreciable quantities of salts, particularly chlorides and sulphates, and in towna, ammonia, acids, soot and dirt, are generally present.
►
In the case
of the deep spring the water is generally safer, having been fered in its passage through the earth. It appears at the sur face because it has been forced up through cracks as. the result of pressure.
Water forced up in springa need
not necessarily, of course, discharge
Even if rain water reaches the ground fairly clean a great amount Wells-In addition to returning of care must be given to collection. naturally to the surface through In the case of a house the usual springs the percolated water may collecting surface is the roof, and he brought back as the result of the from this it runs into the eaves- |· efforts of man, through wells. gutters and thence by the rain-water pipes to a tank of some sort, usual-
ly though not always," under ground. Quite commonly in older houses, both at Home and abroad, the tank is constructed under the building and
Tanks and Reservoirs When sin water is to be collect- ed for the supply of populations of any size, special collecting surfaces constructed of concrete or other in- pervious material must be provided as well as tanks or reservoirs to which the water may be conducted by means of pipes. In these cases, as in the case of the single house,
HONG KONG HEIGHTS stepe must be taken to prevent the
rain water picking up pollution
[To Be Continued]
FURTHER RESTRICTIONS FROM TO-MORROW
SUPPLY: FROM SHANGHAI
Those who still obtain
their
on the surface; quite commonly water from taps, through meters, springs appear in the bed of a in their own premises, will have river, a lake, or the ses.
their hours cut down as from
Pipes Damaged to-morrow, as will be seen in an
Charged with damaging ten water official announcement on page 7 pipes, five Chinese, tenants of flats of this issue.
in Wai Ching-street, Yaumati, were Hitherto the mains in the City fined 85 nach by the Kowloon Magis- Victoria and in the Uppertrate, Mr. T. 3. Whyte Smith. The
pipes were damaged in the scareng Ing lane behind the fista. A hole had been dag in the earth and the pipe broken. A kerosene suction pump had been used to draw the water, this method being employed because, although water was sup plied by the authorities, the pres sure was so feeble as not to be of sufficient force even to reach the ground floor tenants.
WELLS, AS.
KEFALE WELL; B, ADELP WELLE
AFRICAN POLITICS
CONFERENCE OF GOVERN- „MENTS SUGGESTED:
London, May 17 The influential South African Hofmeyer, interviewed by a Lon-
Have You Tried This Tonic Treatment For
Your Back-Pains ?
When the nervous system gets run-down one of the commonest manifestations of the nervous de bility which results is an aching back. When the blood is poverished it not infrequently happens that the back muscles become afflicted with those Then- matie pains known as lumbago. Many women suffer back-ache at periodical intervals through rea- sons other than those mamed Labove.
For the information of visitors from the collecting surface. The The commonest types of well are Levels have been turned on for the following list of some of the large area must be kept scrupulous the Shallow or Surface, the Tube seven hours, day, from 6 am highest points on the Island and ly clean and well protected, and it or Abyssinian, The Deep, and the to 10a.m. and from 8 pa, to his importent suggestion for a misa Nervous Tonle Women every
Mainland is published:
Island
Victoria Peak
Signal Station
ML Farter
Mountain Lodge
The Eyrie
Penk Hotel
Taikoo Sanat
Mt Davis
is advisable to exclude from the Artesia
Feck,
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tanks the first quantity of rain by pers water that falls.:
of the roof con
tamination may
be
materials
a8
Shallon
1000
› Bowen, &ead (alterbeds) M
Kawlom Peak
B124
1971
hese are formed p.m. An hour and a half is the strate or lay extent of the farther daily res forming the friction, the times as from Tues ping the day being 6 am to 9 am and
3.30 p.m. to 6 pm
Peak Hours On the Feal, there will be only four hours supply each day, in two spells of two hours each for some sections, and in one spell of four hours for the other parts.
For Severn road (eastern -sec- not tion only) Berker-road, Magazine reat Gep and Wanchal Gap, the hours
or Surface Wella case of the shal- surface well, the
the_under
out never
ground or subsoil water
upon the first
Indeed las aÐU because it does not.
that
-
a
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