P.W.R. Hongkong.
Q 36
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The rainfall for the year amounted to 97.34 inches (Observatory Record) or 10.54 inches less than last year but was still 12.73 inches above the average for the last thirty-eight years.
There was but little rainfall in the early part of the year, the first of importance commencing on the 5th of May. The dry season set in early, the last considerable rain falling on the 6th of September.
The maximum quantity of water impounded in all the reservoirs during the year amounted to 2,135.14 million gallons during September or 16.54 million gallons less than the maximum during 1920.
The total quantity of water remaining in the reservoirs at the end of the year amounted to 1,394.46 million gallons.
The total quantity of water pumped from Taitam Tuk Reservoir during the year amounted to 1,211.14 million gallons, 792.74 million gallons being pumped by the new Simpson Engines and 418.40 million gallons by the Tangye Engines. This total is more than last year's by 431.86 million gallons.
No. 1 Engine (Tangye) ran 133 days. No. 2 166 77 12 No. 3 (Simpson) 145 > 17 No. 4 128 31 11The following is a comparative statement of the cost of pumping during 1920 and 1921 :-
Taitam Tuk Pumping Station.
1920 1921 Coal. $52,155.00 $78,180.00 Wages. $11,885.63 $12,200.00 Miscellaneous, including repairs and stores other than coal... $4,066.42 $8,871.76 Total, $68,107.05 $94,251.76Coal to the value of $315.00 was carried forward from 1920 to 1921 and coal to the value of $4,165.00 was carried forward from 1921 to 1922. The price of coal was $17 during the whole year.
The price last year (1920) was $22.50 per ton.