No. 118
Hongkong.
21091
13 JUN 06
Government House,
Hongkong, 12th. May, 1906.
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My Lord,
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In continuation of my Despatch
No. 241 dated the 5th. October, 1905, transmitting a state-
-ment showing the action taken to give effect to the re-
-commendations contained in Mr. 0. Chadwick's Report of
the 10th. April, 1902, on the Sanitation and Water Supply
of this Colony, and referring to the first and second
paragraphs of that statement which dealt with water statis-
-tics, I have the honour to transmit 6 coples of these
statistics for each rain-year (1st. May to 30th. April)
from 1889 1890, the first year in which systematic re-
-turns appear to have been kept to 1904
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1905,
the last
year for which they have as yet been completed. I also
enclose an abstract of these returns.
Penclosure 1. Post)
# copies her Book
Conclosure 2.
2.
The average annual rainfall
throughout the period under review was 83.96 inches the
largest
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
800.
2
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
&c.,
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