CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7] — Page 78

No. 118

Hongkong.

21091

13 JUN 06

Government House,

Hongkong, 12th. May, 1906.

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My Lord,

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In continuation of my Despatch

No. 241 dated the 5th. October, 1905, transmitting a state-

-ment showing the action taken to give effect to the re-

-commendations contained in Mr. 0. Chadwick's Report of

the 10th. April, 1902, on the Sanitation and Water Supply

of this Colony, and referring to the first and second

paragraphs of that statement which dealt with water statis-

-tics, I have the honour to transmit 6 coples of these

statistics for each rain-year (1st. May to 30th. April)

from 1889 1890, the first year in which systematic re-

-turns appear to have been kept to 1904

>

1905,

the last

year for which they have as yet been completed. I also

enclose an abstract of these returns.

Penclosure 1. Post)

# copies her Book

Conclosure 2.

2.

The average annual rainfall

throughout the period under review was 83.96 inches the

largest

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

800.

2

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

&c.,

&C...