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COPY.
No.58
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Enclosure
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19 JUN 00
Public Works Office,
Hongkong, 11th. January, 1900.
I have the honour to forward herewith a most interesting and valuable report from Mr.Gibbs, on a schemƏ for a new water supply for British Kowloon and -- for Kowloon City.
It has long been recognised that, owing to the very rapid growth of population, the existing supply would prove insufficient, while it was incapable of much improvement.
The acquisition of the New Territory altered the conditions entirely, and we looked forward with confidence to the possibility of a new and much better scheme by which the whole peninsula could be supplied by gravitation from a reservoir or reservoirs in the hills lying to the North.
A report on the existing works was submitted
by Mr.Cooper and laid on the table of the Legislative Council on the 16th. November, 1892, and I would call attention to paragraphs 29 to 34 of that report. Mr. Gibbs refers to this report and gives a very good brief description of the works
carried out.
I beg also to invite attention to paragraph
96 of my last anmal report referring to this subject.
The census returns showed that the increase of
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