CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10] — Page 530

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Enclosure 2.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.

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Pro 4 NOV 03

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Hongkong,

23rd September, 190 %

Report on Ordinance No. ____16 of 1903 .

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled

An Ordinance .to repeal The Water-works Consolidation Ordinance, 1902, and to provide for and regulate the Supply of Teter in

the Colony of Hongkong and for the Maintenance and Repair of the

Works in connection therewith

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to

the Governor's Instructions,

The Water-works Consolidation Ordinance (No. 29 of 7902), which provided for the disconnection of all services to tenement houses, except in special enses, and the supply of such premises with water from public fonntains placed in the streets aui laues, did not meet with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies and instructions were received to modify its provisions in such a way as to enable the services to be retained whilst facilities were to be afforded for controlling the supply of water in case ek nal,

This has been douse by providing in the present Bill for the supply of practically the whole of the Chinese portion of the City through rider-mains ". These are subsidiary mains, to which all the services to the houses uear which they are laid will be connectel, and, as they can be shut off by means of valves from the principal muins, the supply of water to the humses can be restricted to any extent cou sidered necessary without shutting off the water from the City generally as has to be done at present. The powers of restriction are vested in the Water Authority, subject to the general control of the Governor-in-Commeil.