CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12] — Page 175

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Sir,

C.O.

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REC

(Rec 27 JUN 95)

Admiralty.

173

26 June 1895.

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With reference to your letter of the 31st December

1894, enclosing a copy of a Report on the Water Supply of

Hong Kong, by Mr 0. Chadwick, and stating that the

Colonial Government are taking steps to carry out the

proposals made therein for improving the Water Supply of

Hong Kong, I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of

the Admiralty to state, for the information of the Secretary

of State for the Colonies, that in view of the measures

that are being adopted by the Colonial Government it is hoped

that the necessity for the construction by the Admiralty

of a large reservoir will no longer exist.

It is, however, considered very desirable that

the storage of water for the purposes of the Naval Hospital

should be improved, and with this object it is proposed to

construct a small reservoir adjoining the existing Hospital

reservoir in the position shown on the enclosed plan.

The site belongs to the Colonial Government and I

Under Secretary of State,

am

The

for the Colonies,

L.P.-No. 9.

COLONIAL OFFICE.