Office or Individual.
Date.
1880
Last previous Paper.
20265-
Copy Govt. No 21. 10 March
ca 116750 frme 1079-H & § 8368)
Hongkong
No. 2520 DOMESTIC55
Proposed Fire Tanks + Mains for Victoria
brwards report thereon by
In Rawlinson.
(Minutes.)
M. Bramston Meade
It appears to me that the system
of tanks and hydrants should be considered only in connexion
with the new water works
in that the question of supplying sufficient water for drinking should also supply enough
for putting out fires; at present, as I understand, the two supplies
are quite distinct.
9 to Governor
are treated
to an
Reply, that when the plans I estimate were received, they
were referred to the Engineer,
whose report is enclosed:
and that it would seem desirable to