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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1929.
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EXPERT'S OPINION: OVER SIX MILLION
GALLONS NEEDED A DAY.
RESERVOIR SUPPLY AND LAST WEEK'S CONSUMPTION.
KOWLOON
TROUBLES ALLEVIATED.
Mr. A. B. Purves, of the Water Works Department of the P.W.D., gave our representative yesterday information as to the grave technical difficulties of maintaining a rider main service for a short period every day. He said:-
To maintain a two-hour supply to the rider main dix- tricts that is to the majority of Chinese houses-It would be necessary to open the principal mains for twelve hours daily. That is a purely technical question and a thing you can't escape.
**
Such a supply would maan an expenditure of six to seven million gallons a day, instead of st million gallons as at present."* GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL
SUPPLIES.
INCREASED SERVICE
EXPECTED.
Instances of several members of the same family waiting in turn in the queues also came to the notice of our representative, In sore places, residents have to go a long way for water and although
long way for water or to line up with the queues for the fountains.
CORRESPONDENCE.
WHY NOT A WATER LOAN?
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE нома кома DAILY PRESE."]
Sin. Judging from the opinion of the public, the best scheme aug- gested so far for the alleviation of hardship dating the prepeat water shortage is the plan to purap water From tankers into Tytam. The Government, however, has indicated that the cost of such a scheme would amount to at least $500,000 a month. a figure, which the Colony cannot afford.
The
With our share market, our pro- perty market,, and business general- ly, so backward, would it, not be possible to raise a public loan at. a reasonable rate of interest last public loan which the Govern- ment raised at 6 per cent. Was oversubscribed by huge margins. Is it not possible to raise a short-term A long meeting was held at the the tank scheme is a scurce "of
loan from the public? After all. Water Control Office yesterday at assistance to people near the there must be plenty of money avail- Praya yet, those living further in-able in the Colony, as from a re- when the various schemes for augland still have either to travel a port I read in your "Money and menting the water supply were
Market column yesterday, the Chinese, for want of something farther examined. No statement could be made, but we understand
better to do, have invested over In Wanchai and the Eastern dis- 85.000,000 in Central Bank notes in special attention is being turned to trict generally, there are still very the hope that these notes will touch the use of supplies within the long queues at the fountains and ."' par af some future date. Colony. A fall of rain means that there is certainly room for many ft. after raising the loan, a more fountains there. It is hoped {** cloudburst should visit the a, proportion of the supplies now that the Government scheme in Colony, the money could be utilised being tapped run to waste and the cludes better facilities in Wanchai, in speeding-up the Shing Mun authorities are considering how Happy Valley and Causeway Bay and other local permanent water
in the near future.
schemes. The loan would serve in this can be obviated by a careful
two-fold purpose, therefore, as it organisation of available water
would remove the present hardship transport.
to a certain extent and, when that. is over. it would' speed up our Government's scheme. I mention the idea for what it is worth, leav ing the matter of details to those more able to deal with it.Yours, etc.,
The Tanks.
THE RESERVOIR "SUPPLY
Emphasis was laid on the fact THE HONG KONG POSITION. that the supply from the tanks was not being fully used. It is most unfortunate," "our représentative
The total, storage in the island reservoirs on the morning of Mer- day. July 1, amounted to 178.54 was informed, that the general million gallons showing a decrease population are not drawing as much of only 2.08 million gallons during as they could and as much as weed from streams being 19.47 million the past week; the amount ecllect-
hoped. If the water is clouds, or gallons. This was equal to nearly rusty (if from the steel tanks) it is refused or even wasted."
"Many people prefer to wait for the fountain supply. We quite realise the inconvenience of getting water in this way, but more could be got from the tanks with little or no waiting."
Each tank has 24 or 40 taps and on the pipe connecting the steel tanks in Central Street and Western Street there are 80 taps.
Imports.
six days' supply.
The week's consumption totalled 27.91 million gallons was made up as follows:-
City mains ".... Taikoo ... Lai Chi Kok Tsun Wan Steamers, etc.
Total
... 20.15 .37 2.39* 2.98* 1.63*
27.21
*-To tanks.
Kowloon Supply Improved.
Hong Kong, July 3.
"IDEA.
THE BIG IDEA.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HỒNG XỪNG DAILY PRESS."
SIR--With reference to the Ion. H. E. Pollock's interesting letter in to-day's issue of the Daily Press with regard to the water problem, I think most people will agree that the only solution to get an adequate and permanent supply of water in Hong Kong and Kowloon is to `ap- proach the Chinese Government to allow the Hong Kong Government to construct waterworks in Chinese Supplies are still arriving, freight age free, chiefly from Shanghai. The total storage in the mainland territory, where there are many in- Yesterday the Raiching brought "280
reservoirs on the morning of Mon-exhaustible supplies of water ab- tons from Foochow, the Hap Sangday, July 1, amounted to 114.27 tainable. 140 tons and the Sui Yang 440 from of 13.99 million gallons during the million gallons showing an increase Shanghai.
past week. Negotiations are in progress with the Chinese authorities to waive the usual formalities at Lan Tia, which take from one to two hours, in the case of the Fu Kwong.
The week's consumption, exclud- ing supplies to Hong Kong is 20.60 million gallons plas 0.11 from the Tsun Wan supply making a total of 20.71 million gallons.
difficulty in getting such a conces sion, but in these modern days one would imagine some arrangement could be entered into between the two Governmente which would benefit both Europeens and Chinese in the Colony.
There will be no doubt be great
The cost of Shanghai water is 50 The yield from the Shing Mun "As the Colony is only in ita in- cents a ton and Singapore is also | River and streams during the week fancy, it appears to be waste of an cxpensive source. This is a is 37.07 million gallons.
good money to continue patching matter which the Government has During the week Kowloon's con-up our Hong Kong water supply... to consider when the suggestion of sumption of water nearly doubled | Let us have something big-Yours,
fleet of tankers bringing supplies compared with the previous week, etc. from outlying ports is urged. and a twelve hours supply hus
enormously alleviated the situation- but the increased cousuinption with better facilities is significant, Some reasons for it are given below.
AN OBSERVER'S
IMPRESSION.
HARDSHIP IN CHINESE HOUSES.
tanka on the
Hong Kong, July 3
The writer noticed in many flats in Chinese tenements houses in the HOW KOWLOON BEARS UP! Yaumati district, carefully built up piles of kerosene tins, three or four tins high and as many long and deep, all full of water, while for fear of losing business some of the tea houses had miniature reservoirs constructed in their premises.
A
WATER HOARDERS ?
"Observer,"
Despite the completion of the
correspondent, sea front and the sends us the following:- installation st extra fountains, Over the week-end, the writer inconvenience and suffering from happened to dirty his hands sorting
the
An explanation of this storing up of water may be the difficulty of
fountains. If a coolie has to wait
water sharpage is still very ont copper pipes in a Yaumat obtaining a supply from the street acute on the Island. That was the shop, and asked for a little water. impression gained by a baily Press A shop foki led the way to the for two hours with one bucket, it representative who made a round kitchen at the rear, where a sur-
does not seem unreasonable to him of the various districts in Hong prising sight was seen.
to add ten more receptacles. In a small
Another point which might be room 12 feet square enough water was stored for a herd of camels! "worth investigation. How much of the water thus stored in tins in a In one corner stood an enormous beer-barrel filled to the brim, and, dirty kitchen or out on the pare- neatly built under the tap, was n
ment in thrown away unused be- cement tank. The tap was flowing cause it has become dirty, the con- freely and it would appear from server saying to himself that there the number of kerosene tins packed is plenty more where it came from?
Kong yesterday.
Many Chinese houses are getting barely sufficient water for cooking and drinking and in the Central district the average supply to any one flat is about four buckets, that is to say, two londs, one in the morning and one in the evening
In cases were one family occupy sround the room that it was never flat, this supply has to serve cook-turned off,
ing purposes and perhaps affords An enquiry as to how they were the family an opportunity to wash inconvenienced" by the drought, hands and faces, but there would be no water left for washing cloth ing and the house itself.
A DRY JUNE.
was received with a smiling remark Last month's rainfall was oply that they were quite all right, 5.31 inches of which 3.08 fell be. which was doubtless true. But it tween the 22nd and 25th inclusive. Where more than one family oc- brings up the query whether the The 24th saw 1.10 inches recorded cupy a flat, the suffering is very restrictions to the water supply as the maximum daily fall The real and water after it has served are. in Kowloon, really causing the 30th and the 15th saw just under for washing the person is used for suffering of which some people are and a little over half an inch, res-
bucket so eloquent.
and there was pectively,
speck- of rain an 12 other days. On 12 days there was no rain at all.
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A few visits to Chinese fats in Yaumati will soon prove to anyone that there are not a few Chinese bo¬ratis ta be inconventenced by
(Continued on next Column).
Yesterday's fall was described by the Rogal Observatory.as 0.01 of an inch. It washed down the affect and freshened the trees.
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