CO129-533-4 Hong Kong Water Supply Scheme 28-1-1931 - 20-1-1932 — Page 13

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Submits alszons

prapasals.

31.12.31 / 13

Governm's

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With reference to paragraphs 9 and 10

of Crown Agents' letter of the 31st of December

(21), I spoke to-day on the telephone to Mr. Spiller,

who told me that it would take at least three or four months for the Consulting Engineers to prepare the necessary drawings and quantities. He said that if the scheme was to proceed

the

Consulting Engineers were anxious to get their men on the spot by August, which was the best month of the year for work of that sort to begin in Hong

Kong. There is, therefore, none too much time if the scheme is to be begun this year.

In view of the Governor's undertaking given in paragraph 8 of his Confidential despatch of August the 7th, 1931 (14), to proceed with an adequate scheme of water charges, general approval of the further work on the Shing Mun water scheme need not, I think, be further withheld on that account.

The Crown Agents in paragraph 4 of (21) consider that the proposals put forward with regard to the engineering aspects of the scheme can be

approved.

? Approve engineering aspects of proposals the carrying out of the work under the direct supervision of the Consulting Engineers; and telegraph to Hong Kong as in draft herewith (for

conson

No reference has been made in the draft telegram to possibility of an application for

assistance