CO129-513-6 Hong Kong water supply- schemes for development and improvement 25-1-1929 - 2-8-1929 — Page 37

No 309.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG. 21st June 1929.

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Sir,

I reret to have to report that owing to

the continued absence of adequate rainfall, the water-shortage in this Colony has reached very grave

dimensions. From January 1920 up to the middle of the

current month only 2.435 inches of rain had fallen

as apinst an average since lcc4 of 117.097. Consequently all the main reservoirs in the Island

are empty at a time when

overflowing, and on the

they hold almost be

inland the springs are so

low that the new conduits from the Shing fun

catchment,ev enen recourse is hd to pumping, yield

"

but a little over one million gallons a day instead of

the four million gallons daily, which they were

designed to supply.

The enclosed copy of a statement made in the

Enclo o Legislative Council on the 20th June, by the

Honourable 1r. H.. Creasy, C.B.E., Director of

Public Works, contains a full escription of the

present position and of the measures taken to meet it.

HE RIGHT HONOUR.BE

SIDNEY WEBD, P.C. LL.3.

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