CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]

Me 137

C.O.

12555

273

26. September 1902.

Hong Kong,

18 SEP 1902

Hongkong Government Hill Bungalow Peter Supply

I have the honour to submit the following Report on Water Supply caused by deficient rain and the steps taken to tide over the scarcity during the year 1901-1902.

The rainfall during 1901 was the second lowest on record, amounting to 55.78 inches as compared with an average of 86.57 inches. The effect of this inadequate rainfall on the water supply was probably intensified by the low rainfalls of the preceding years, which amounted to 54.02, ... and ... inches respectively, all considerably below the average, so that, during 1901, only ...

The Storage Reservoir, (Pokfulam), Tai Lam (Taftain), and Wongnichong, never being full...

The Honourable

The Colonial Secretary

However, to follow the exact format required and improve readability, here is the revised version in HTML, with proper paragraph handling and minimal necessary line breaks:

Me 137
C.O.
12555
273
26 September 1902.

Hong Kong,
18 SEP 1902

Hongkong Government Hill Bungalow Peter Supply

I have the honour to submit the following Report on Water Supply caused by deficient rain and the steps taken to tide over the scarcity during the year 1901-1902.

The rainfall during 1901 was the second lowest on record, amounting to 55.78 inches as compared with an average of 86.57 inches. The effect of this inadequate rainfall on the water supply was probably intensified by the low rainfalls of the preceding years, which amounted to 54.02, ... and ... inches respectively, all considerably below the average, so that, during 1901, only ...

The Storage Reservoir, (Pokfulam), Tai Lam (Taftain), and Wongnichong, never being full...

The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary

Let's correct and refine it according to the given rules. ## Step 1: Correcting OCR output and formatting The given text is the OCR output of a historical document. The first step is to correct the obvious errors such as "Leviciarif" to "September", "sain" to "rain", "lide" to "tide", "ucoceeding" to "succeeding", "CA" to "...", "Sefencel" to "supplies", "ciclou sified" to "intensified", "unted" to "amounted", "conviégrably" to "considerably", "Coloccial" to "Colonial", "fille" to be left as is or corrected if context allows. ## Step 2: Applying the corrections After applying the corrections: "26. Leviciarif 1902." becomes "26 September 1902.", "deficient sain" becomes "deficient rain", "lide over" becomes "tide over", "the rainfall during at or 1901" is corrected to "the rainfall during 1901", "aMCI CA" is unclear but seems to be a placeholder or error, "Sefencel the water seepply" becomes "supplies the water supply", "ciclou sified" becomes "intensified", "unted to" becomes "amounted to", "conviégrably" becomes "considerably", "Coloccial" becomes "Colonial". ## Step 3: Formatting the text The text should be formatted into proper paragraphs and Markdown syntax should be avoided in the final output as per the instructions. Instead, HTML is used. ## Step 4: Checking for missing words and reordering The text has some missing words or unclear parts (e.g., "yong and yo. y3 inches"), which should be indicated with "...", and sentences should be reordered or completed if necessary for clarity. ## Step 5: Finalizing the output Given the constraints, the output should be in HTML format using

for paragraphs. The final answer is:

Me 137
C.O.
12555
273
26 September 1902.

Hong Kong,
18 SEP 1902

Hongkong Government Hill Bungalow Peter Supply

I have the honour to submit the following Report on Water Supply caused by deficient rain and the steps taken to tide over the scarcity during the year 1901-1902.

The rainfall during 1901 was the second lowest on record, amounting to 55.78 inches as compared with an average of 86.57 inches. The effect of this inadequate rainfall on the water supply was probably intensified by the low rainfalls of the preceding years, which amounted to 54.02, ... and ... inches respectively, all considerably below the average, so that, during 1901, only ...

The Storage Reservoir, (Pokfulam), Tai Lam (Taftain), and Wongnichong, never being full...

The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary