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ost each of these posts a quantity of hose.
was
Kept, together with the nex
necessary.
appliances for connecting it with the
nearest hydrant, and
in case o
of fire.
These articles were
C
Leave. I found that during my
during my absence of
-eighteen months, the pressure on the mains
had decreased to such an e
turning
Ovi
the water
nas 20
Kept in
of the shop
men
the nearest shop and one
periodically
instrusted in their use. On
the Queen's Road and other streets
extent that it
for the
longer of much use
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purposes of fire extinction; and besides this, the water was now so seldom turned
on in
the mains that the street plugs could not
Dear
the
even be relied
za level, the hydrantis pressure from
the street plugs being sufficient to throw water over the highest houses, these stations
were
of great value; and fires
mere.
on
several occasions extinguished by a jet. from the hydrant before the arrival of the engines. As far as I remember things
were much in this state when I went on
furlough in 1871. But on returning from
072
for the small se
supply of necessary for the boilers of the
fresh water nosessary steam Engines.
I was informed by the then sAsting
Surveyor General that this change was
caused by the large
number
large nur
of
new
pipes
connected with the mains for the supply
of Chinese houses in different parts of the town. The dearth of water increased and towards the end of 1873, by order of it.