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FROM MESSRS. SIR ALEX. BINNIE, SON & DEACON TO THE CROWN AGENTS.
Artillery House,
Artillery Row,
Victoria Street, Westminster. S.W.1.
8th August, 1933.
Gentlemen,
SHING MUN VALLEY WATERWORKS, HONG KONG.
VISIT: MAY
JULY, 1933
Our partner, Mr. Gourley, has recently returned
from a visit of inspection to the site of these works.
He arrived in Hong Kong on May 31st and left on June
17th, 1933.
Since the beginning of the year a considerable number of borings have been sunk on various sites, working
both day and night, in order that the most economical and
favourable position might be selected for the dam.
After Mr. Gourley had made a detailed study of
the whole of the prevailing conditions on the ground, it
became clearly evident that, whichever site might be
selected, a masonry dam would prove to be expensive and
more costly than we had originally estimated on the
information which was then available.
As the result of Mr. Gourley's visit and further
information which we have received from Mr. Hull since his
return, we have been able to instruct Mr. Hull by cable at
once to proceed with the actual foundation
excavations for
another type of dam, excavation for which will be
/sufficiently