COPY.
SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY
(WATER SUPPLY FROM JOHORE)
PONTIAN WATERWORKS, JOHORE.
19th January, 1931.
Mr. H. M. Finlay was engaged as Assistant Resident Engineer for the Johore Water
Scheme of the Singapore Municipality in November, 1927. He was at first employed at the
Sultan Ibrahim Reservoir, and was transferred to the works in my charge in 1929.
He was Engineer in charge of the Subsidiary Embankment-2,700 feet long and 45 feet
high, consisting of an earth bank with a concrete core wall supported on 40 feet long
steel sheet piling-and at the commencement of the Pumping Station was placed in charge
of that section of the works.
Mr. Finlay is very energetic and painstaking, and a man of considerable ability and
His work has been of consistently high quality.
resource.
It will afford me great pleasure at any time to give further details of Mr. Finlay's work
here, in response to inquiries.
(Signed) E. H. BATE, B.Sc., A.M.I.C.E.,
Resident Engineer,
Pontian Waterworks.
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