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THE
TWENTY-THIRD AN- NUAL MEETING will be held
at the Sanitary Board Room, Post Office Building (by kind permis- sion) on FRIDAY, 6th September, at 5.15 p.m.
A. A. RUMJAHN,
Hon. Secretary, Hong Kong, 31st August, 1929.
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THE CHINA MAIL,
WATER SUPPLY
Governor's Comprehensive Review
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RIDER MAINS TO GO
Future Plans Fully Outlined
At the meeting of the Legislative Counell yesterday H.E. the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) gave the following review of the Government's water supply policy-both with regard to the Island and Mainland developments. The Government aims at the eventual abolition of the rider main system in favour of meters in all houses.
The schemes now in hand allow expansion up to a supply of 20 million gallons a' day.
whom 1,520
later, in
voir and of the Kowloon water- works gravitation scheme began in 1902 and was
completed in 1910. Its storage capacity at overflow-level 18 3522 million gallons, but with the sluices down an additional 321⁄21⁄2 million gallons can be stored, making a total of 385 million gallons, Next follow- ed, in 1925, the completion of the Shek-lai-pui reservoir, with
capacity of 116 million gallons
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and three filter-bets.
and meanwhile, in 1923, work be- gan
Un the Shengmun valley. scheme, which is still under con- have more to say later on. Two struction, and about which I shall
small schemes on the mainland PRESENT, Past and Future won-
should. however, be mentioned at. derfully revealed through
this point. system of Meditation (Yogasadhana)
Gravitation System of the Great Yogi, Swani Premanan
In 1920 dalce, the world famous
the Royal Hong Our House has remarkable
Kong Golf Club requested from famous
fom
Government to supply water to quartery
Honourable Members of the.
In 1841 there were estimated to the links and club-houses at Fan- India, Burmu and Ceylon been known to the public for the last Legislative Council:
be 6,650 Chinese in Hong Konging; and, as private residential For many months past our prin- The number of Europeans, then development also had begun in Our charges are 5 ques- 12 years. DRAUGHTSMAN WANTED—A first tions & shillings; Annual Life Read- cipal anxiety has been the very
resident оп the island, is not the vicinity, a gravitation system class Portugues draughtsman cap- ing (Monthly details) 5 shillings; serious water shortage in the known; but it must have been able of designing and detailing en-Weekly details 10 shillings; Complete
was constructed to supply the dis- buildings to be Test Life Reading 10 shilling Kong island, due to an abnormal- 1851, the population had increas perennial stream to
Colony, and "expécially. tirely single storey
very small. Ten years on Hong
trict, water being obtained from a constructed reinforced concrete, tensive Whole Life Reading
(from
ed to a total of 32,983 souls the golf course.
the west of wood or steel frame with corrugated birth to death) 20 shillings. Payable ly tow rainfall. This water emer- iron shee
sheeting. Must be willing to in British Post Orders only. Parti-gency arose in spite of the fact
The distribution deen and Ap-li-chan villages with work for considerable periods at ports culare required (Birth date, and date that all the storage reservoirs of
were non-Chinese: systein now extends from Tan-ling 60,000 gallons and in that year the Colony's first village to Kam-tsin village
a day; and, in other than Hong Kong. Apply in the when writing). Prof. S. N. BOSE,
and order to improve this supply, the first instance by letter addressed B.A. Swami Premananda Ashram, the Colony overflowed in 1928. waterworks were constructed the average daily consumption Government in 1897 constructed a "Secretary, Post Office Box No. 22. Beadon Street (P.O. Box 11418. The last dates in that year when namely, five wells for the city this year has been about 17,000 small covered service reservoir Hong Kong."
Calcutta.
the reservoirs on Hong Kong is supply. Again, it is interesting to gallons. It was further decided, and stood at overflow-level were remark that during the recent in 1922, to place the Taipo water pany's own reservair was,
The Com- how- 15 follows: Wong-mai-ch'ung emergency we have had to fall supply on а more June 4, Pok-fu-lam June 5, Tytam back upon the opening of walls in basis. Prior to that year houses Government in March last, as an satisfactory ever, resumed by the Hong Kong
Happy Valley and elsewhere to oke out our failing supply from were supplied from sources
the neighbourhood of Taipo initial step towards the extension of of the waterworks in Aberdeen the reservoira.
doubtful purity, and Taipo Market valley, a matter to which I shall In The Year 1860
itself was dependent on wells. revert. later on. The next step was taken in An intake, has
The Ap-li-chau- now been formed supply was obtained by water- 1860, when two tanks were con- in a large stream near Taino; all boats until 1928, when a 2" pipe city supply; and once structed in Bonham-road for the cultivated ground above the in-line was laid acros9 the bed of
again take has been resumed and the Aberdeen harbour to give this cent, of the annual rating valua- note that tanks have during the catchment area has been made small island a direct service.
tion of the asid tenements. recent emergency proved to bo
into a forestry reservc. A 4" Question of Distribution Under such a system of computa- one of the most useful means of main has been laid and supplies I now pass from the subject of tion, the "free" supply of water combatting the drought. The two Taipo Market and other villages water, storage to that of water in a Chinese house inhabited by tenks built in 1860 were, three as wall as the residential build-distribution. On the mainland, the poorer classes would, it was years later, connected by an aqueings in the vicinity. The daily where storage of water has for estimated, have been about two
where in consumption at present amounts tunately hitherto kept pace with gallons per caput per diem. Ex- duct with Pok-fu-lam, 1833 the Colony's first storage reto 40,000 gallons,
the growth of the population, it perience gained in Kowloon servoir was completed. year the population of Hong Kong servoirs were also being built on to give all premises
In that Meanwhile further storage re- is now the policy of Government that time had shown that seven a metered gallone a day was for domestic had increased to 124,850 souls, of Hong Kong island in the Tytam supply through the mains. But purposes enough for the poorer whom 3,149 were non-Chinese. valley,
there The Tyłam Brewash re-on the island, where in times of Chinese, when The Fek-fu-lam scheme, like 30 servoir, with Д capacity of drought the water storage has waste; and it was anticipated many of the Colony's waterworks. 22,370,000 gallons, was completed often been insufficient to supply, that, rather than pay for the developed by successive in 1904; and the so-called Inter- the needs of the resident popula- extra five gallons a head, oc- stages. In 1863 the capacity of mediate- Reservoir in Tytam tion, a more complicated system cupants would give up their house this reservoir was only two mil valley, with 氤 capacity of of distribution grow up. Under
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termediate November 17. On the
1928. Shek-lai-pui | ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS mainland, in
of the Sale by Public Auction reservoir last stood at overflow
level on September 8 and Kowloon be held on MONDAY, the 5th day of September, 1929. at the rainfall for the second half reservoir on November 28. But
13 p.m..
at the Offices of the
of 1028 was only 22.69 inches-the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov lowest ever recorded; and the ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land 1ainfall from the beginning of at Wong Nei Chung, in the Colony this year to July 12 last. when of Hong Kong for a term of 75 the drought may be said to have rears with the option of renewal ended. was only 15.76 inches, mak- at Crown Rent to be fixed by the ing a total of 38.65 inches during Surveyor of His Majesty the King, period of a little for cae farther term of 75 years PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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over twelve
months. The lowest rainfall ever
previously recorded in this Colony
for twelve consecutive months was 45.83 inches in 1895. The recent drought was. therefore, much the most severa in the Colony's history and its effect was such that on July 11, 1929, when our island reservoirs were at their lowest, the total water ator-
was
in
lion gallons. In 1871 by recon-195,914,000 gallons, was complet the legislation of the years 1895 struction its storage was increased ed in 1907. Work on the Tytam- to 1898 the syster of supply was to 66 million gallons: and in 1895 tuk scheme, began in 1913 and as follows:-
an additional 4,400,000 gallons was completed on October 22, (a) Within the City of Vic were impounded by the use of 1917.
These works comprise a toria water for domestic purposes boards, making the total capacity storage reservoir, practically at was supplied without check or re- of Pok-fu-lam reservoir 70,400,000 sea-level, with a capacity of 1.419 straint of any kind through ser- gallons, Meanwhile, in 1877, the million gallons, a pumping-station vices laid on to the houses. Any conduit between
Pok-fu-lam and capable of raising 9 million gal-house the city was reconstructed; and lons a day to Tvtam Tunnel, two Meters were fixed only in the case io 1890, four filter beds for this suction malns of 18" diameter of supplies for trade Or поп- reservoir were built with an area and half a mile in length, and domestic purposes.
of 1,360 square yards.
а
three rising maina of 18" dia- meter and 1.92 miles in length.
Three Small Schemes Three more small schemes must be mentioned for the sake of com-
could have its service.
age in Hong Kong was only 150 million gallons, while on June 8, 24 1929, when our mainland reser- voirs were at their lowest, the total water storage in Kowloon was only 79 million gallons. This means that the Island and mainland reservoirs were so de pleted that no more than 7 per cent and 15 per cent, respective. ly of their aggregate capacities PUBLIC AUCTION. remained in storage. Since July
(b) Outside the City of Vic- 12 we have fortunately had heavy
Tylam Valley
toria the supply of water to Chin- ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS rains and our anxieties have been
The second, and by far the
ese houses was entirely by means of the Sale by Public Auction somewhat relieved. But it has
largest, of the storage schemes on
of public fountains. Services for be held on
the island is that MONDAY, the brought home to every resident in
in the Tytam
the supply of water for domestic 9th day of September. 1929, at this Colony in an unmistakable valley. The original section of pleteness. 3 p.m., at the Offices of the manner that our water problem is
In 1914 a service re purposes were permitted to Euro- this scheme was completed in servoir and two filter-beds were pean houses only, and in the case Public Works Department, by the most pressing and the most
1889. It provided for a storage constructed to supply the Shau-ki- of all services meters had to be Order of His Excellency the Gov- important of our domestic
reservoir of 312,330,000 gallons, a pro-
wan district with water collected fixed. ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land blems; and it is quite clear to all
tunnel 1.38 miles long, a conduit from intakes in streams
on the (e) A uniform rate, both in- at Shamshuipo, in the Colony of of us that an adequate solution of three miles long, and a service re-eastern slopes of Mount Parker, side and outside the city, of 2 per Hong Kong, for a term of 75 this problem is
with imperative, servoir
capacity of A supply of about 200,000 gallons cent. per annum on the rating years, commencing from 1st July, Therefore, as a preliminary to our
5,700,000 gallons. In 1897 thea
day is obtained from this valuation was charged on account 1898, with the option of renewal deliberations over next year's dam was raised to
impound an source. In 1922 a balance tank of water. In the case of all at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the budget. I wish to place before you additional 72,470,000 gallons. The was built and a 3" pipe line, cap metered supplies, the water con- Surveyor of His Majesty the King the history in brief outline of the capacity of Tytan reservoir thus able of yielding 75,000 gallons asumed was charged for at the for one further term of 24 years Colony's waterwerks, descrip became 384,800,000 gallons, and day, was laid from Wong-nai-rate of 25 cents per thousand less three days.
tion of our present position with hy using boards this was further ch'ung reservoir to serve the new gallons, a rebate of 1.1/3 per
increased to a total of 407 milion development in water supply, and a
Repulse
Bay. cent. per annum on the rating statement the waterworks gallons. Meanwhile, in 1891, the Finally, this year, a similar pipe- valuation being made from the policy which we intend to pursue
Peak, which had previously been line and balance tank have been accounts.
well water, was built in the near future and of the goal dependent on
the connecting
Stanley
Strange Anomalies supplied from the city waterworks peninsula with the Tytam supply You will see that under the old by pumping; and, in 1892, the city and capable of yielding nearly ordinances Back To 1841
there were some waterworks distribution scheme 100.000 gallons a day.
strange anomalies.
A European was completed.
No further storage reservoirs house inside the tity boundaries In 1899 was completed the small have as yet been constructed in obtained an unlimited supply of Wong-nai-ch'ung reservoir with a Hong Kong, and the total capacity water through the mains without capacity of 30,340,000. gallons, in-of the six storage reservoirs built payment, except in the form of creased to 33,994,000 gallons by by Government on the island-rates: but a similar house outside the use of boards; and in that namely, Pok-fu-lam, Wong-nai- the city boundaries was metered year the total capacity of all ator-ch'ung, Tytam, Tytan Byewash, and had to pay for all it consum- age reservoirs on the island, with Tytam Intermediate and Tytamtuk ed, only a portion of the amount boards in use, was 511,394,000 is 2,118,414,000 gallǝns. gallons. It is not now consider population of Hong Kong island ed. A Chinese house inside the
The paid as water rate being refund ed safe to increase the depth of cannot now be less than 600,000 city boundaries also obtained an water in the Pok-fu-lam and souls. Thus the storage, which unlimited supply of water from Wong-nai-ch'ung reservoirs by the in 1863 was 10-more than 16 the mains without payment, ex?
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The construction of residential and business premises on Hong Kong island began in March,
when 1841,
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Company erected the first substantial house and godowns at East Point. The mer- cantile centre of the Colony was at the outset in Wong-nai-ch'ung valley and Chinese settlement be- gan to
the west of that valley. The water supply for these early seltlers came from the fine moun- tain-stream which gives the valley, its name, and which makes its way into the hartour through what is now known as the Bow rington Canal. The so-called Blue Pool in this stream provided a small storage; and it is interest- ing to note that during the recent water emergency this pool, which was reconstructed by the city waterworks in: 1874, was again brought into use and dug out, after being completely silted up
New Territories
Private Enterprise
of the population would fetch their water from the street-foun tains, where they could obtain as much as
they required free of charge, except in so far as the payment of rates was concerned, Universal Metersge A bill was drafted, which provid- ed for universal meterage, and "excess consumption" was defined in it as any quantity of water as- certained by a meter 48 having been used in a tenement in ex-
of Cess
a quarterly allowance which, at 50 cents per thousand gallons, would be equal to 1/3 per
services.
at
was no
A bill, drafted on these lines, was read a first time in this Council, but its object was mis- understood by the Chinese. They imagined that the aim
was to raise revenue, whereas the real object was to check waste. The then Chinese members of the Legislative Council represented to Government that the bill would fall in its object, as landlords, in order to make their houses at- tractive, would keep the water- services in them and would ar- range to charge the tenants for their excess consumption by addi- tlons to the rent. The Chinese, it was urged, would be better pleased if Government took steps to attain its object by direct legis- lation, at the same time increas- ing the "free" supply to such pre- mises as were allowed services.
Idea Abandoned
The Government thereupon aban- doned the idea of universal meter- age and determined to provide for the supply of water to the poor- er sections of the population by Deans of street-fountains, a step
which would have brought the distribution of water within the city into line with that then exist- For ing outside its boundaries. the wealthier classes a supply of house services would be provided, services to be metered all such and any excess consumption above. a certain allowance to be charg ed for. Public fountains would be opened throughout the city and all houses would be discon- nacted from the mains unless the owners agreed to the introduction of meters and signed an under-
tion." taking to pay for "excess consump
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Had A Hard Time Cutting Her Teeth
use of boards. Both these old re- gallons a head, and in 1899 was capt in the form of rates; but a servoirs leak and the leakage in only 1,972 gallons a head, is now similar house outside the city creases, when boards are fixed. 3,530 gallons a head. Moreover, as Tytam reservoir now
boundaries had to obtain its sup- ply from street-fountains, whilst Until Baby's Own Tablets Were. overflows into Tytam-tuk reser-
Apart from these six storage paying the same water rate as a Used With Fine Results. voir, the use of boarde in connee-reservoirs constructed tion with it has been discontinu Government, four reservoirs have
by the house inside the city.
Drought and insufficient storage There are few more trying times ed. The total capacity of these been built on Hong Kong island made it frequently necessary to for a mother than when her child reservoira has thus been reduced by private enterprise. Three of resort to a system of intermittentis teething. A simple and ready from 511,394,000 gallons in 1899 them were constructed by Messrs supply upon the island. Indeed, solution to the fretting of both to 481,140,000 gallons at the pre Butterfield & Swire in connection from 1889, the date of the com- mother and child is to be found sent day. The Colony's popula- with their -establishments tion in 1899 was 250,312 souls, of Quarry Bay. The first was built scheme, down to 1902 it had only pleasant and absolutely harmless at pletion of the original Tytam | in Baby's Own Tablets, for these in the course of the intervening whom 15,822 were non-Chinese. in 1884 and has a capacity of 11 been found possible to maintain little lozenges allay the pains and million gallons. The second, the full supply in four years. assist the process of teething so On April 16, 1809, the New built in 1898, has a capacity of The trouble came to a head dur-¦ quickly and easily as to seem al- Territories were taken ever and 30 million gallons; and the third, ing the exceptional drought of most magical in their good effects.
over the the British dag was hoisted at built in 1895 and situated at the 1901-2, which extended Taipo. Prior to that day the 500-foot level above North Point, whole of South China and result- land population of British Kow has a capacity of 137.7 million ed in a water famine on Hong loon, which, according to the 1891 gallons. There is also in the Kong island during the early part census, was 39,997 souls, had Aberdeen valley a storage reser of 1902 similar to that which we drawn its water supply antirely oir constructed in 1890 by the have experienced this year. It from wells, and the only water. Tai Shing Paper Manufacturing became evident that action must works undertaken by the Hong Company. Its capacity, when first be taken, not merely to increase, Kong Government on Kowloon built, was 44.2 million gallons. In but to conserve the Colony's water peninsula had been the construc the years 1899 and 1900 its dam storage; and it was first sought tion, în 1895, of three wells, north was raised 18 feet to its present to attain the latter object hy in
gallons a day. But from 1899 on by 47,8 million gallons to a total so-called “free supply" of water check diarrhoea, relieve croup and wards increasing attention was capacity of 92 milion gallons, being placed very low. It was colds, expel worms. Of chemists, given to schemes for storing From this reservoir the Company hoped that, rather than incur the
or post free, 60 cents per vial, water on the mainland, The con- is required by the terms of its expense of paying for "excess | from the Dr. Williams Medicine struction of the Kowloon reser Crown lease to supply the Aber- consumption, the poorer classes | Co., 60, Klangse Road, Shanghai.
years. Moreover, even when the drought was at its worst, the Wong-nai-ching stream never failed to flow. Doubtless it was this natural water supply which attracted the first settlers to the Happy Valley,
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