CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929 — Page 141

52819/28.

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENT I AL

Dear Sir Cecil Clementi,

140

Downing Street,

August, 1928.

Thank you for your letter of the 17th of

Auquet about the Hong Kong Water Supply.

We note

that it will be very inconvenient for you to come

up before the 18th of September and will arrange for

the discussion some time after that. In the

meanwhile wo are obtaining the preliminary

observations of the Crown Agents on the questions

of distillation of sea water and the construction

of a tunnel, and are also thinking over the matter

from the point of view of defence of Hong Kong.

The sessional paper to which you refer

has not arrived but we have telegraphed asking that

copies may be sent as soon as possible.

I will

let you have copies as soon as they arrive and

meanwhile enclose two typed copies of your

memorandum as requested.

SIR C. CLEMENTI, K.C.M.G.,