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date on it and I will write your Excellency later if I am able

to obtain any useful information.

I believe at Aden all the water is distilled

sea water also the British Navy have some distillation process

for the Men of War but I should have thought that filtered

natural water would be preferable from a medical point of

viewwhen compared with distilled sea water, if the former is

obtainable.

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As regards (3) The Shing Fun Scheme has already

received very careful consideration and was, I believe, adopted

as a practical scheme prior to the 1925 financial collapse.

The idea is to dan up a perennial stream divert part of the

water by means of a tunnel to Kowloon and bring the remaining

water over to the Island of Hongkong by a pipe line.

water thus obtained will be sufficient both for Kowloon and

the Island for a number of years to come. The tunnel has

already been completed but nothing has been done in respect

of the pipe line or the dams in connection therewith although

the land which will be required for the Hamsthas been resumed.

There are two proposals in respect of the pipe line, one to embed

it in the sea and the other to lay it on the bed of the sea.

Two objections have been raised to the Shing Mun Scheme :-

(a) That it is situated in the new Territories the

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lease of which from the Chinese Government expires in about

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