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that this well should be tested
by
continuous
8 pumping during
the dry months, of this year, and I further
ther recommended
that some
some che
cheap pumping
apparatus should be sent out
for the purpose.
Fr
my report
the
co
a sum for
Estimates for 1891 I included
for this put poll; and
this recommendation
AGO
approved.
by H. E. the officer administering the Government in Executive Council.
I should be glad to know
whether this recommendation has received the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
If so, I have the honour to recommend that the pumps should be procured and sent off without waiting for
an
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an indent from Hong Kong.
shall only just
As it is we
have time to send the "pump,
it out
in time for the coming dry season. If we fail to
to get it. before the monsoon, the preparation of the final design and estimate must be deferred till 1892, for the well, which is a shallow one will certainly
abundant supply
afford
am
wit weather, so that a test would be useless.
in
I cannot recommend, even the preparation of a final project, a work involving some exprenel, till the certainty of abundant perennial supply is established by direct experiment, beyond all doubt.
my
It would also facilitate work, if I were provided
with
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