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any

time existed as to there being

ample water.

deering

the wet season,

meet

from the hills above Victoria to mock the requiressout of the lown during the dry season; and that the only point for

~

Consideration in connection with aw

has been — not

improved water supply whether we could find.

/ water enough

but where we could find the best and

most suitable site

for holding

there

very large volume which we have

at command and which we require

to store up for There

b.

town or on

use in the

dry

RENTRAYV

are wo-volleys above the

the mountain slopes.

the harbour any

overlooking the

where

near Victoria where water could be

ponded on a su

· sufficiently large

scale

scale to cut the wants of the population

during the dry season, or

from.

from which the water thus ponded could be delivered

by gravitation through pipes at arm eufficient

elevation above sea-

lead to

subsorve the higher portions of the town.

7.

The only valley fulfilling those

conditions was

exhaustive

found — after

ant

ve survey of the topography of the entire istaud in the Tytan district,

in

and accordingly this locality, in epite

distance from.

the town, had to

of it

be selected as the best site for the two- future reservoir :

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The main

- feature of the

bree

waterworks is the gravité

MASOVA

and concrete dan which it is

intended to build across the Tylam

Valley