CO129-543-10 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley water works 21-4-1933 - 8-2-1934 — Page 30

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No.

CONFIDENTIAL.

Sir,

Ausd

HONG KONG,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

14th July, 1933.

ED

6

30

42857/30

(1)on

62735/29

With reference to Mr. (now Sir Thomas)

Southorn's confidential despatch of the 8th May, 1930,

on the subject of the Cross Harbour Pipe Line, I have

the honour to inform you that, with the work on the second

section of the Shing Mun Scheme in hand, it is desirable

that a second pipe line should be provided. In this

connection I would invite your attention to the paragraph with the marginal note "Extension Second Pipe", in the

report by Mr. R. M. Henderson, which was forwarded to you

by Sir C. Clementi under cover of his confidential

despatch of the 25th January, 1929. The first pipe

line has now been in use for more than three years and

its success fully justifies the principle of a pipe line

across the harbour.

2.

The estimated cost of the second pipe line

is $350,000 and subject to your concurrence it is proposed

to include $300,000 in the draft Estimates for 1934, under

Loan Works, (Appendix V of the 1933 Estimates).

3.

It is however necessary that further

information of a technical nature should be obtained

regarding the different types of material used in the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,

&C.,

&c.,

&C.

pipes

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