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HEADING.
Water Supply.
Sanitarium Barrack
Hong Kong.
No.
189
383
C. O.
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FROM THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING
IN CHINA AND HONG KONG.
To The Adjutant General to the Forces,
Horse Guards, War Office, S. W.
ENCLOSURES.
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Sir,
Copy of Water Works Ordinance. Copy Report by water authy., and Copy of Col. Sec. No. 1689. min, by Dir. of Public Works.
Memo. by C. R. E.
H Ô N G K 0 NG,
26th September, 1894.
I have the honour to report that a difficulty
has arisen in regard to obtaining from the Colonial Water
Works a supply of filtered water for the Sanitarium Bar-
rack, the Government insisting upon certain conditions
which the Commanding Royal Engineer considers not only
unnecessary but undesirable to be admitted on the part
of the War Department.
I enclose a minute by the Commanding Royal
Engineer which fully states his case, together with a
copy of the Government regulations relative to water
supply.
Having, after several attempts to obtain a
relaxation