CO129-513-6 Hong Kong water supply- schemes for development and improvement 25-1-1929 - 2-8-1929 — Page 51

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approves the adoption of your

proposals and I am to authorise

you to proceed in consultation

with the Crown Agents and the

Consulting Engineer to select

the type of pipes and joints to

be adopted and generally to

in this cometry,

take the necessary steps to

carry out the scheme. The

Crown Agents are being informed

accordingly.

3.

a

In a separate letter

to the Crown Agents Mr. Fairley

has directed their attention,

in connection with the possibility

of obtaining further supplies of

from

water for the Hong Kong Island,

to a paper contributed by the late

Mr. Jaffe to the Institution of

Civil Engineers in 1918, entitled

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'Hong Kong Water Works, Low

Level Reservoirs and Contingent

Works