CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 429

2

for 22269

426

on the West Praya ($25,000).

The $150,000 set apart for Insani-

-tary Property Resumption is to complete the work of which

a plan and statement were forwarded with my Despatch No.138

of the 26th. May last; this resumption is now well in hand.

Under Water Supply it is proposed

to make a commencement with the reconstruction of No. 2

Service Tank in Victoria, a work stated to be urgent in

paragraph 21 of Mr. 0. Chadwick's report of the 18th. April

1902

on the water supply of the Colony, and to carry out

a small scheme for supplying water to the new Officers'

Quarters at Tai Po at present dependent for this necessary

on coolie carriage. The Kowloon and Tytam Tuk (No. 1 Sec-

-tion) Waterworks are to be completed. During the year the

detailed plans, estimates, and specifications for the Tytan

Tuk (No. 2 Section) Works will be prepared to enable that

project to be put in hand at the commencement of 1907.

8.

Should the revised Estimates for

1905, according to which there will be a balance of assets

on the 31st. December next of $331,962 and the Estimates

!

for 1906, as now framed to show an excess of receipts over

expenditure of $290,440 be realised there will be a balance

Jo

of assets on the 31st. December, 1906 of $662,402. It will probably