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"TAMAR" at Hong Kong,
30th June 1903.
Sir,
I have the honour to bring to Your Excellency's notice that owing to the wall of the Albany Nullah, abreast of the lower tram station, having collapsed during the heavy rain of Saturday and Sunday (the 27th and 28th instant) a mass of stone and debris was carried down the Nullah, eventually producing a temporary block in it.
The water, unable for some time to find an outlet, overflowed the bank of the Nullah by Murray Barracks, and carried mud and earth for some distance down Queen's Road, as well as into the Naval Yard, where it was piled up against the buildings, choked the drains and found its way into some of the store houses.
The Nullah in Admiralty property is now some three feet deep in stones and debris, and would probably soon become seriously choked if more heavy rain fell. I have therefore given directions for as many coolies as possible to be set to work on it and hope to have it clear again during the course of the next few days, it being estimated that there are some 1400 cubic yards of stones, earth, etc., to be removed from it.
As the blocking of a Nullah was chiefly due to a wall (the property of the Colonial Government, I believe)
His Excellency
Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G.
Governor, etc. etc.
Hong Kong.
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"TAMAR" at Hong Kong,
30th June 1903.
sir,
I have the honour to bring to Your Excellency's
notice that owing to the wall of the Albany Nullah, abreast
of the lower tram station, having collapsed during the heavy rain of Saturday and Sunday (the 27th and 28th instant) a mass of stone and debris was carried down the
Nullah, eventually producing a temporary block in it.
The water, unable for some time to find and
overflowed the bank of the Nullah by Murray
Barracks, and carried mud and earth for some distance
down Queen's Road, as well as into the Naval Yard, where
it was piled up against the buildings, choked the drains
and found its way into some of the store houses.
outlet
The Nullah in Admiralty property is now some three feet deep in stones and debris, and would probably
soon become seriously choked if more heavy rain fell.
have therefore given directions for as many coolies as
possible to be set to work on it and hope to have it
clear again during the course of the next few days, it
being estimated that there are some 1400 cubic yards
stones, earth, etc., to be removed from it.
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As the blocking of a Nullah was chiefly due to
a wall (the property of the Colonial Government,
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His Excellency
believe)
Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G.
Governor, etc. etc.
Hong Kong.
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