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been I cannot say, but I can vouch for the
great
pains taken by Mr Stanger
in his inspections, and I
am
absolutely certain that he would not have
passed material in the condition complained of.
In his despatch No 235 of the 20th May, 1885,
the Governor of Hongkong desires to have
my
opinion as to whether the Estimate of the Surveyor
General, of the total estimated cost of the Water
works at & 166, 440 is excessive, or otherwise, as
woontes from
compared with the average cost of water-supply
to buropean bitics.
In reply, I quote from
A
quote from a Table giving the
capacities and costs of water-works, consisting of impounding - Reservoirs and conduits, in Great Britain
The Tytam Works are estimated to supply 19
gallons per head daily, to a population of 125,000,
at