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Fran D. Weffernan to Acting Colonial Secretary
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Remarks on the Reed W. Moule's dry
earth
conservancy system.
This plan appears to be peculiarly adapted in many respects to Wongkong.
It suits the usual custom of the
The daily
Chinese of carrying away
excrita.
It has also the advantage of -
saving the expenditure of water, which
would
b v
very great should the water. doit system be extensively adopted,
as it is becaning in all new houses.
It would abo moderate the
also
nuisance)
which
ari
of long underground drains
liable to become choked, and
offensive. The action of these drains
to