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ed with the system. Apart from any respectable Chinaman who wished to Gas connection with the main has only to notify the Government and they will provide bim with a mater and charge him a reasonable reat for it. You might then ask-How does this prevent waste? that if the owner, who will be the person will tell you think it does. It seems certain
primarily and principally involved in "
EXCESS OF CONSUMPTION OF WATER finds that his tenants or occupiers are wasting water and causing him to spend certain amount of money for excess, all he has to do is to refuse to carry on the undertaking as men tioned in the Ordinance and thereupon the
mains, and the tenants and occupier would
be passe Then again, there is ano Jection to this Bill, and that is the ab
matter
wastes the;
molho must have). meter fixed on the premises, believe the cost of a meter is pretty expensive just now I think a meter will cost between sixty and seventy dollars.
The Hon. A. G. Wise-Oh no, five dollars ? Hon. Dr, Ho Kai-Five dollars? Well, anyhow, they charge for a gas-meter something like forty cents a month rental. However, if the water meter is so cheap that objection falls to the ground. I thought it would take.
A VERY HEAVY SUM
that so conts for 1,000 gallons might very well be applied to the
that Mr. Chadwick in 'suggested an ascending would require an expert to thoroughly, but looking at point of view the suggestion good
has
the matter from a very broad is I think, rather There are one or two- CALA His Excellency-Your remarks are most excellent, but the question before us now is whether the Bill be read a second time. Thore is a proposal that it be put off for three months and it has been seconded. If the Bill had come up for reading I think your various com ments would come in. I take it that you are in favour of the Bill?
can disconnect bim, with the to buy one and that the rental would be fifty Hoo, Mr. Sharp-Yes, with modifications.
have to carry their water as in the good day of old. You may say, perhaps it is hard on
the owner, but I think if you will consider it you will see surely no grounds for such an
or sixty cents a month. The object of the Bill is detailed in the preamble as follows
Whereas large sums have from time to time been expended and may hereafter be expanded
in the establishment and maintenance of water.
His Excellency-But the question now is whether the Bill be read a second time at all If you can speak on that subject I shall be delighted to hear you,
Hon. Mr. Sharp-1 am afraid, sir, I am not
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HONGKONG AND ITS WATER SUPPLY.
THE NEW BILL
CHINESE OBJECTIONS..
At yesterday's meeting of the Legislative
Council the greater part of the time was taken up in discussing the new Ordinance to provide for and regulate the supply of water in Hong, kong, and for the maintainance and repair of the works connected therewith.
In moying the second reading of the Bill, the Hon. A. G. Wise said -- have only a few «remarks to make it is useless for me to dilute at any length on the crisis from which this Colony has just emerged with reference to water or rather the want of water, but I think I may tell you briefly that in consequence of the continued drought we have been perilously
near
THE END OF OUR SUPPLY:
house, which is very much like a rabbit warren,
for the misdeeds of one or two it would
be absolutely impossible in nine cases out
of ten to find out who is the delinquent With regard to Chinese houses, I do not. think it would be unfair to charge the owner, who always bas the means to stop it. With re ference to this subject I might say that a gentle mars who has left the Colony just now, but who has very close relations and interests in pro
perty namely the Hon. C. P. Chater, stated
that he approved of this scheme. That is all I can say. I heard him saying it, and therefore
it seems to me there can be --
The owner can'
NO HARDSHIP ON OWNERS -
can always get rid of his obligations and make his tenants revert to the old system, which in my opinion will reduce the waste.) Your waste is there. That is where it will have to be cut off. There are Europeans who have large gardens and who use a great amount of water, but the main waste is in Chinese houses, and that is the evil we have to fight with With regard to excess consumption it is defined as follows :-"Any quantity of water ascertained by meter as having been used, in a and certainly nearer to the end than we tenement in excess of a quarterly allowance, have ever been before. It is of course, no which, at 50 cents per 1,000 gallons, would be use to say that we have plenty of water now equal to one-third per centum on the rating and therefore the danger is over for the prevaluation of the said tenement. I think before sent, for what has happened before may hap the word "rating" you must put in "annual" pen again, and therefore, it behoves us to do
I will give you an example how it works out, something to prevent a recurrance of a water Suppose an annual rating valuation of $100 famine. Mr. Chadwick, who was sent out by month. Then one-third per cent of that would the Government of England at the request of abe $4, which at so cents per 1,020 gallons would section of the community, told us before he give you 88 or 89-gallons per day. The other went away that the Colony generally, owing to its increased population, could not in the
clauses of the Bill refer to the powers of the Government to collect the rents of the meter future always depend on the natural annual rainfall, in spite of our large addition at Tytam,
and also to collect any charges for excess con- for a continuous daily supply to all tenements sumption. There are of course general powers in the Colony. When he said that I think given to carry out the provisions of the Ordin
ance. That practically is the new part of the provisions in various Ordinances which are BillThe balance is a sort of collection of hereby repealed and I simply present to you in a consolidated form the Water Ordinances of
Colony,
he referred-in fact, I am sure he did- principally to tenements in the Chinese parts of the town, because I think we are all agreed that waste has occurred there in a very large way, and I think there can be no denying that the ordinary Chinese coolie. is very ready to turn on a tap, but has a horror of turning it off. Some years 380001 so long after all, for it is within my recollection there was no such system as a continuous. WATER SUPPLY TO CHINESE TENEMENTS.
The supply was then by means of water pipes and stand pipes in the streets, at different intervals and the Chinese occupants of these houses had to carry their water, and that was a safe-guard, for they did not carry much more than they wanted. To prevent waste at these stand-pipes various precautions were taken The first consisted of some sort of automatic device which i must say did not prove very efficacious, One of these was a brass button which, as long as you kept your thumb upon it, allowed the water to flow, and when you took it away the water stopped. But the coolie was not content, and put а I bit of wood in to keep the water going. Another appliance was a chain that you pulled down. As long as it was kept down the water flowed and it stopped when the chain was let back. The coolie tied a knot in that chain ́ ́ These appliances were of no great use, although there may be some fresh ones now. The chief precaution taken was this: there was a body of watchmen who patrolled the a
he atreels, and it was their duty when they came across a standpipe running to cut it off and if they
COULD CATCH THE MAN
this
The Hon. F. H. May seconded.
CHINESE OBJECTIONS.
a
Hon. Dr. Ho Kai-Sir, shortly before I came to the Council I received a communication from some of the leading Chinese asking me to represent their views to the hon. members of this Council and also to oppose the second reading of this Bill. Personally I have, not much objection to the Fill, but since I have to represent the views of our Chinese citizens, I wish to say a few words in order to better represent their case. The Chinese object to the provisions of this Bill on the following grounds. First of all, the allowance for daily consumption is too small. Just now we heard the learned Attorney-General review the quantity for a house with a Stoo a month rental, and he has told us that the water for that quarter is 54 at 50 cents per 1,000 gallons —that means to say, 8,000 gallons for the quarter. Now, a little arithmetic will show that S,coo-gallons divided by three will give you only 2,666, and then divide that by thiny and you will find that the house--a very big house, mind you, when you pay $100 a month-will get only about 88 gallons allowance per day, and supposing the house contained ten persons that only gives us eight gallons per day per head. I put it, sir, to you, in Chinese houses paying $100 a month there would very likely be twenty or thirty occupants. In European houses, including servants coolies boys," cooks, and so on-there might be an average of fifteen persons, and thus the quantity of water allowed to them would be something like between four and five gallons, and whatever was in excess of this would be. charged at the rate of so cents per 1,000 gallons. At that rate, you will find that the quantity allowed Chinese would come to some where, between one and two gallons per head, That, I say, is extremely small, and the Bill is justly reganted by them as giving them.–
NO WATER AT ALL
it is expedient to provide for and regulate the supply of water from such works as well as the maintenance and repairs of all works connection therewith also to make provision for the payment of all-such sums as aforesaid Bót otherwise provided for and for the repay ment of any loans in connection therewith and of the interest to accrue thereon." Now, in order to meet the excessive expenditure of the
¡ sums necessary in connection with these water-
works, I think the Chinese community made a
very good suggestion when they said the Government should raise the taxes of the Colony. By doing so you would realise this: extra sum, and that course would be preferable to trying to get income from the excessive con: sumption of water, which I believe would be a very expensive way of getting the money, As to the waste of water and how to prevent it, it is stated in the objects and reasons that as the waste principally occurs in Chinese tenement houses and the cost of excess consumption in nine cases out of ten will have to be paid by the owner, it is conceived that such owners will elect to
• DISCONNECT THEIR SERVICES and allow their tenants to have recourse to the public fountains-a system which used to be universal in the case of such tenements. At the same time any person who prefers to be connected can be so." Now, upon this point, personally I must say I do not see any more ineffective means of preventing waste than by resorting to the plan proposed here. Again, about this waste of water 1 must say that I believe water is wasted in European houses quite as much as in Chinese, for the Chinese servants waste the water just the same as they would do in their own houses: besides, in European quarters a large amount of water is used for watering the garden and watering the lawn-quite as much perhaps as would suffice houses. To go back to the other point, how- "for the requirements of two or three tenement
think that the charging excessive consumption ever, the learned Attorney-General seems to
of water will fall on the house-owner or land- lords, but you will find that the
COST WILL FALL ON THE TENANT.
inasmuch that if the landlord finds he has been charged for excessive consumption he can put so many dollars on the rental. 1 pro- pose, therefore, sir, that this Ordinance be read a second time three mouths hence, and I am quite sure that with a little more, care and consideration we can devise some means for the prevention of waste without perhaps inflicting so much hardship upon the Chinese community.
The Hon. Wei A Yuk seconded.
The Hon. C. S. Sharp-1 bave only a few remarks to make, sir, upon this Ordinance. We have listened very carefully to what has been said by the hon. member who has just sat down, I wish to preface my remarks by saying that I approach this Bill in no hostile spirit. I am fully in favour of doing away with waste. Our experience during the past few months has been such that we must make some strong effort to prevent a repetition of this thing. I think this Bill is a step in the right direction and should generally speaking, hope that you will adopt that view of it. I am somewhat concemed, however, at one or two matters in it, especially the matter of the proposed charges for water. As I take it, the effect of the pro posed charges will be to halve the present. free consumption allowed under the meter system." The owner is, I believe, charged at the rate of 25 cents per 1,000 gallons. The proposed charge is so cents. We certainly should husband cur supply but to halve the allowance is rather
the HEROIC MEASURE
leaving it running they took him to the Magis tracy and, as far as my recollection goes, had him ̈· fined $10. - Under that system things worked very well and I think I may say the Chinese were accustomed to carry their water. Although I thoroughly recognise that there is
Stress has been laid by the Sanitary a difference in population, at the came time,
Board and others on the advisability of a speaking comparatively, I have no hesitation
better water supply. If I may, I should like in saying that in those days there was little
to quote the Drainage Bye-laws. They say danger of a water famine. After a time some
that the real remedy is in careful construction philanthropic person of persons came along
and use of the drains and a liberal water and granted what they thought to be a boon to
supply,I take it that if we practically double the Chinese tenement holders-which was a
the present cost of water I am afraid that may curse to the Colony--a continuous daily supply, unless they pay for it. Again, there is another have the effect of making people penurious What was the result? We had various short-
objection against the Bill, and that is that over their water supply, and speaking from the ages, periods of want of water, until last Spring,
Chinese drawing this small quantity have to use sanitary point of view as embodied in these when various people said this must be put ait not only for potable purposes, but for washing extracts I have just read I think that would be stop to Th
The question is-How is it to be as well, and that on about: two gallons per rather a misfortune. As regards the present stop to? TH Bill is an endeavour
head per day. Of course, they are not like water consumption of the Colony, I have taken to do so, and the system we have Europeans who send their clothes out, but they | some of Mr. Chadwick's nutes for my guidance,-
a system of meters Section, 13.
have to do most of their washing at home, and and he states that the consumption of water the amount of water they would use would per head per day is about 17 gallons. He only be supplied, to any
average at least two gallons a day. Now, the goes on to say that though the present water measured
meter
Sanitary Board are trying their trust to get consumption is restricted it must certainly be the Chinese to clean their houses, and we hope reduced. But 1 submit that he could hardly.
do so and have meant by a reduction such
may induce
hing
TREMENDOUS REDUCTION
advocat
not. I take it that I was out of order?
His Excellency-Oh, ao; I do not say that. Hon. Mr. Sharp-Might I suggest that the mover of the amendment should make the period less than three months. It might be accepted. Three months is rather a long time.
Hon. Dr. Ho Kai--I will make it six weeks. On a division, the motion was carried by 7 votes to 4 for the amendment. For the motion there voted Mr. Shewan, Mr. Playfair, Mr.
Thomson, Mr. Badeley, Mr. Wise, Mr. Rumsey
and Mr. May; for the amendment Mr. Dick son, Mr. Sharp. Mr. WeiA Yuk and Dr. Ho Kai. The Hon. A. G. Wise-I do not propose to proceed with the Bill at this meeting.
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