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ost each of these posts a quantity of hose.

was

Kept, together with the nex

necessary.

appliances for connecting it with the

nearest hydrant, and

in case o

of fire.

These articles were

C

Leave. I found that during my

during my absence of

-eighteen months, the pressure on the mains

had decreased to such an e

turning

Ovi

the water

nas 20

Kept in

of the shop

men

the nearest shop and one

periodically

instrusted in their use. On

the Queen's Road and other streets

extent that it

for the

longer of much use

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purposes of fire extinction; and besides this, the water was now so seldom turned

on in

the mains that the street plugs could not

Dear

the

even be relied

za level, the hydrantis pressure from

the street plugs being sufficient to throw water over the highest houses, these stations

were

of great value; and fires

mere.

on

several occasions extinguished by a jet. from the hydrant before the arrival of the engines. As far as I remember things

were much in this state when I went on

furlough in 1871. But on returning from

072

for the small se

supply of necessary for the boilers of the

fresh water nosessary steam Engines.

I was informed by the then sAsting

Surveyor General that this change was

caused by the large

number

large nur

of

new

pipes

connected with the mains for the supply

of Chinese houses in different parts of the town. The dearth of water increased and towards the end of 1873, by order of it.