CO129-526-10 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Scheme with plans of the dam and reservoir sites 8-5-1930 - 10-9-1930 — Page 13

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the C.D. A. c.

Dinles

6.10.20

This is the scheme which we have just

authorged the C.A. to

engage Consulting

Engineers to report on. Until that report has been received and affroved,

it

zeems

premature to put up the scheme to the C.P.A.C., but this J. Campbell should

see and advise

that point.

JtCalder

6.10.30

May/k

1. I should be inclined to tell Hong Kong, at once,

that an application for aid from the Col: Dev:

Fund in respect of a new gaol should not be for-

warded. That seems clearly outside the scope of

the Act. This intimation may save them useless

trouble.

2. As regards the Shing Mun waterworks, second

section, there seems no point in approaching the

CDAC at this stage. We do not know if the

scheme will be sanctioned: we do not even know as

yet if it is a feasible and workmanlike scheme.

There are--and can be, in the circumstances--no

detailed estimates available. And the works

are not likely to be commenced before 1932, in

any event. It is perhaps hardly reasonable to ask