24. That your Petitioners are humbly of opinion that no expense should be spared or time wasted in enlarging the present insufficient reservoir capacity of the Colony to a capacity able to meet its present and probable future requirements.
Your Petitioners humbly ask that you may see fit to advise His Most Gracious Majesty the King to disallow the said Ordinance as passed by the Legislative Council of this Colony and that the same may be returned for amendment as regards the several particulars herein complained of or some of them and that Section 5 may be amended by the insertion of a provision authorising the connection of "Tenement houses" with the water supply by means of the system suggested by Mr. OSBERT CHADWICK in his said Report so as to allow such "Tenement houses" a constant or an intermittent supply of water as circumstances may permit.
August, 1902.
And Your Petitioners will ever pray &c.
DRAFT.
The C.A.
MINUTE.
Mr. Fiddian Collins, Mr. Antrobus, Mr. Cox, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Graham, Sir M. Ommanney, Earl of Onslow, Mr. Chamberlain.
A.C.384, 40595, 29 Aug., A.C.
Mr. Chamberlain to transmit to you a copy of a despatch from the B.A.C. of Hong Kong submitting for the signification of H.M. pleasure an Ordinance "to facilitate and regulate the supply of Water in the Colony of Hongkong and for the maintenance and Repairs of the works in connection therewith,"
24. That your Petitioners are humbly of opinion that no expense should be spared or time wasted in enlarging the present insufficient reservoir capacity of the Colony to a capacity able to meet its present and probable future requirements.
Your Petitioners humbly ask that you may see fit to advise His Most Gracious Majesty the King to disallow the said Ordinance as passed by the Legislative Council of this Colony and that the same may be returned for amendment as regards the several particulars herein complained of or some of them and that Section 5 may be amended by the insertion of a provision authorising the connection of "Tenement houses" with the water supply by means of the system suggested by Mr. OSBERT CHADWICK in his said Report so as to allow such Tenement houses" a constant or an intermittent
August, 1902.
supply of water as circumstances may permit.
And Your Petitioners will ever pray &c.
DRAFT.
The C.A
MINUTE.
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Mr. Cox.
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