1

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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