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This is part of the Second Section.
The
for the Company's rights, lands and buildings:
cost is $525,000 to be paid up early in 1930. An
additional reservoir, to contain 175 million gallons
and to cost $900,000, is being constructed, together
with ancillary works, estimated to cost $1,277,000,
(including catchwaters, mains, filters, an access road, and a pumping station).
(b) The Sheng-mun Valley scheme will provide
supplies from the mainland, partly to meet the needs of the greatly increased population of Kowloon and
partly also to supplement the inadequate resource/of urce of
the Island.
The full scheme consists of the complete
development of the Sheng-mun Valley from Lead Mine
Pass to the sea and the Southern and Eastern slopes
of Taimoshan, a mountain 3,130 feet in height. At
present, however, only a section of this scheme has
been taken in hand and the references to the scheme
in the present memo randum refer only to this first
section. The following descrption is taken from a
recent speech delivered by the Governor:
"An access road 16 feet in width and 1.92
miles in length from Ts'un-wan to Pineapple Pass
was completed in 1925. In the same year were also
completed the intake dam across the Sheng-mun River
above Pineapple Pass, the temporary conduit 6,000
feet in length from this intake to the point where
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the dam in the Sheng-mun Gorge will be built, the
North conduit 2,900 feet in length from this point
to the opening of the North Tunnel, and the South Conduit 2,000 feet in length between the North and
South Tunnels. In 1926 the North Tunnel 2,160
feet