CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 391

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HEADING.

Water Supply.

Sanitarium Barrack

Hong Kong.

No.

189

383

C. O.

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FROM THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING

IN CHINA AND HONG KONG.

To The Adjutant General to the Forces,

Horse Guards, War Office, S. W.

ENCLOSURES.

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Sir,

Copy of Water Works Ordinance. Copy Report by water authy., and Copy of Col. Sec. No. 1689. min, by Dir. of Public Works.

Memo. by C. R. E.

H Ô N G K 0 NG,

26th September, 1894.

I have the honour to report that a difficulty

has arisen in regard to obtaining from the Colonial Water

Works a supply of filtered water for the Sanitarium Bar-

rack, the Government insisting upon certain conditions

which the Commanding Royal Engineer considers not only

unnecessary but undesirable to be admitted on the part

of the War Department.

I enclose a minute by the Commanding Royal

Engineer which fully states his case, together with a

copy of the Government regulations relative to water

supply.

Having, after several attempts to obtain a

relaxation