Park Cottage
East sheen
504
17th April 1891
C. O.
precisely, those that a properly devised and intelligently- administered system ofquceral storcreeping would prevent. Indeed Mr Chadwick himself in admitting in his 24th paragraph the desirability of a central store decountaut, recoquines the governing principle
of the Central Store septem, which
focus the
is to
into one
bring responsibility for the receipt, issue, and proper application of stores.
I have the honour to be
Sir,
Your Obedient Servant
RE HONG KONG
8807
To
The Crown Agents for the Colonies
IREC2 (REGP ! MAY 91
Gentlemen,
1.
2.
I have received a letter from the Resident Pnginer
Koning
Water & Drainage Department Hong dated 8th March 1891, in which
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he reports that the distributary mains of the City of Victoria
water-vorks are nearly completed. He also calls my attenti on
to certain fects, commectvu with the distribution of water,
throughout that city, which are of great importance, as regards
the future success of the works.
The facts are, as follow 6.- with the rate of consumption,
which has obtained during the past year, the joint supply,
which the old and the new works can jointly afford, does not
suffice to give a permanent co' stant-supply, in ary seasons,
During a part of February the Resident Pigineer found it necessar
to shut off the water supply between the hours of 9 p.m. & 6 a.m.
The works have given fully as much water as they were
designed to supply; but the consumption has vastly second
that amount. The cause of this excess is obvivus;-enormous
waste from defuctive house-fittings, as I shall shew further on.
There has been no miscalculation on the part of the designers
of the works, as to the quantity that they could be counted
upon to supply or indeed as to the legitimate requirements of
the population.
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