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back along the border, incidentally serving the lead
mine at Lin Ma Hang, the other the Hong Kong-Canton main
road going almost due north.
Several important factories have already been built
along the western route beyond Tsun Wan and it is
probable that in the future great industrial development
will take place in this direction: more flat and
reclamable land is available on the western side than on
the eastern, and access by water to Hong Kong Harbour
would be shorter and cheaper.
Water supplies.
The developed water supply for Hong Kong Island and
Kowloon town already depends principally on reservoirs
situated in the leased area, the proportion being as
follows:-
Capacity of reservoirs on British soil
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2362 million galls.
in leased area 3609 million galls.
The former are all on Hong Kong Island. The existing
storage, however, would be incapable of supplying a
town of the size envisaged in paragraph 2 above. Ün
the other hand all future reservoir development of any
importance serving British te ritory must be situated in
the leased area. The enclosed map indicates approximately
the existing and planned water-storage schemes on the
mainland with their catchment areas. The capacity of the
projected reservoir (hatched yellow) is put at 5000
million galls.
Health.
There is necessarily a close connection between
the health of a town and the hygienic condition of areas
lying just outside the town's boundary. In order to
safeguard kowloon town a close sanitary control over a