Sir,
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON,
W.C.
9th March 1903.
I have the honour to return the copy of a report by Mr Osbert Chadwick C.M.G. upon the Waterworks Consolidation Ordinance 1902 of Hongkong together with a copy of that ordinance and a petition from certain Chinese rate payers asking that the ordinance may be disallowed.
2. In accordance with a request of the Colonial Office I discussed with Mr Chadwick the objections which have been raised to the new ordinance by certain Chinese rate payers in their petition to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and after careful consideration we came to the conclusion that certain modifications in the ordinance in consonance with some of the views of the Petitioners could with advantage be incorporated. These I see are referred to in Mr Chadwick's report and I beg to state that I fully concur with his remarks on the subject.
3. There can be no doubt that under existing conditions the present system in Hongkong by which water pipes and taps are on every floor of a house, be it a tenement house or other building, must lead to an intermittent system during the very dry season of the year. The wastage of water with an eastern population under such a system is so enormous that even with the supply more than doubled I doubt whether the inhabitants will obtain a constant supply in any but excessively wet seasons. For instance very similar difficulties have arisen in Calcutta. At one time while the supply was mainly derived from street Hydrants placed at moderate distances from one another and only a few houses were connected the supply was constant but as...
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Sir,
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON,
W.C.
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9th. March 1903.
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I have the honour to return the copy of a report by Ur
Osbert Chadwick C.M.0. upon the Waterworks consolidation
ordinance 1902 of Hongkong together with a copy of that ordin-
ance and a petition from certain Chinese rate payers asking
that the ordinance may be disallowed.
2. In accordance with a request of the Colonial Office I
discussed with Mr Chadwick the objections which have been
raised to the new ordinance by certain Chinese rate payers
in their petition to the Secretary of State for the Colonies
and after careful consideration we came to the conclusion that
certain modifications in the ordinance in consonance with some
of the views of the Petitioners could with advantage be incor-
porated. These I see are referred to in Mr Chadwick's report
and I beg to state that I fully concur with his remarks on the
subject.
3. There can be no doubt that under existing conditions the
present system in Hongkong by which water pipes and taps are
on every floor of a house, be it a tenement house or other R
building, must lead to an intermittent system during the very
dry season of the year. The wastage of water with an eastern
population under such a system is so enormous that even with the
supply more than doubled I doubt whether the inhabitants will
obtain a constant supply in any but excessively wet seasons.
For instance very similar difficulties have arisen in
Calcutta. At one time while the supply was mainly derived from
street Hydrants placed at moderate distances from one another
and only a few houses connected the supply was constant but as
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