P.W.R. Hongkong,
Q 70
The rainfall for the year amounted to 98.57 inches (Observatory Record) or 8.17 inches less than last year, and was 8.72 inches above the average for the last forty-one years. Although there was considerable rainfall during February and April, the wet season did not set in until May.
The first heavy rains fell on the 16th May, when the reservoirs commenced to rise. The dry season set in late, the last considerable rain falling on the 5th October when a heavy rainfall was experienced completely filling the reservoirs.
The maximum quantity of water impounded in all the reservoirs during the year amounted to 2,127 million gallons on 11th October, or 39 million gallons less than the maximum for 1923.
The total quantity of water remaining in the reservoirs at the end of the year amounted to 1,568.79 million gallons.
The total quantity of water pumped from the Tai Lam Tuk Reservoir during the year amounted to 1,429.28 million gallons, 1,273.19 million gallons being pumped by the new Simpson Engines, and 154.09 million gallons by the Tangye Engines. This total exceeds last year's by 557.11 million gallons.
No. 1 Engine (Tangye) ran 55 days. 3 71 2 " 15 "" "? "" "+ 4 208 "J 77 "" "" (Simpson) 228The following is a statement of the cost of pumping during 1923 and 1924.
Tai Lam Tuk Pumping Station.
1923 1924 Coal $47,470.00 $74,588.60* Wages 12,198.09 13,957.89 Miscellaneous, including repairs and stores other than coal 6,044.12 12,534.71 Total $66,013.41 $101,081.20*This represents value of coal consumed during the year.
Coal to the value of $4,275.00 was carried forward from 1923 to 1924, and coal to the value of $8,806.40 was carried forward from 1924 to 1925.
The price of coal was $15.00 per ton during the whole year in 1924.
P.W.R. Hongkong,
Q 70
The rainfall for the year amounted to 98.57 inches (Observa- tory Record) or 8.17 inches less than last year, and was 8.72 inches above the average for the last forty-one years. Although there was considerable rainfall during February and April, the wet season did not set in until May.
The first heavy rains fell on the 16th May, when the reservoirs commenced to rise. The dry season set in late, the last con- siderable rain falling on the 5th October when a heavy rainfall was experienced completely filling the reservoirs.
The maximum quantity of water impounded in all the reser- voirs during the year amounted to 2,127 million gallons on 11th October, or 39 million gallons less than the maximum for 1923.
The total quantity of water remaining in the reservoirs at the end of the year amounted to 1,568.79 million gallons.
The total quantity of water pumped from the Tailam Tuk Reser- voir during the year amounted to 1,429.28 million gallons, 1,273.19 million gallons being pumped by the new Simpson Engines, and 154.09 million gallons by the Tangye Engines. This total exceeds last year's by 557.11 million gallons.
No. 1 Engine (Tangye) ran 55 days.
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The following is a statement of the cost of pumping during 1923 and 1924.
Taitam Tuk Pumping Station.
Coal.
Wages,
Miscellaneons, including repairs and stores other
than coal,
Total.
1923.
1924.
$ 47.470.00 12,198.09
$74,588.60 * 13,957.89
6,044.12
12,534.71
$ 66,013,41
$101,081.20
*This represents value of coal consumed during the year.
Coal to the value
of $4,275,00 was carried forward from 1923 to 1924, and coal to the value of $8,806,40 was carried forward from 1924 to 1925.
The price of coal was $15.00 per ton during the whole year in 1924.
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