288 suffered various small damages, of which the most serious from the point of view of water supply was the giving way of a bay on the top of the Taitam Reservoir Byewash, by which 23 million gallons of water were lost. Owing, however, to the promptness with which the damage was made good under the supervision of Mr. Hollingsworth, Executive Engineer, and to the streams running strongly into the reservoir, the loss is being made up. The Taitam Conduit took in a quantity of sand and gravel, which has to be removed. Landslips threatened but did not seriously injure the Pokfulam Conduit. The various quarters for Overseers and Watchmen received slight damage; five meters fixed to wharf supplies were lost in the harbour when the wharves were destroyed, but an endeavour will be made to recover them by divers.
On the Kowloon side, injuries were done to the waterboat supply plant at Lai Chi Kok; the cost of repairing which will, however, mostly fall on the Water Companies. Some damage was caused by landslips to the main catchwater for the new gravitation supply. The approximate estimate for repairing water-works is as follows:- Victoria
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suffered various small damages of which the most serious
from the point of view of water supply was the giving way o
of a bay on the top of the Taitam Reservoir Byewash by
which 23 million gallons of water were lost. Owing, however
to the promptness with which the damage was made good under
the supervision of Mr. Hollingsworth, Executive Engineer,
and to the streams running strongly into the reservoir the
loss is being made up. The Taitam Conduit took in a
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quantity of sand and gravel which has to be removed. Land-
-slips threatened but did not seriously injure the Pokfu-
-lam Conduit. The various quarters for Overseers and Watch-
-men received slight damage; five meters fixed to wharf
supplies were lost in the harbour when the wharves were
destroyed but an endeavour will be made to recover them by
divers.
On the Kowloon side injuries were
done to the waterboat supply plant at Lai Chi Kok the cost
of repairing which will, however, mostly fall on the
Water Companies. Some damage was caused by landslips to
the main catchwater for the new gravitation supply. The
approximate estimate for repairing water-works is as
follows:-
Victoria
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