HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS replied:—
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There is no departmental objection to the proposal, and ordinarily the Water Authority would not refuse connections to services of the design referred to, subject to the materials and fittings being of approved quality. The lay-out of the inside service is a matter which chiefly concerns the landlord.
The alteration would, however, not provide a satisfactory solution of the difficulty. With the pipes installed as suggested, the supply of water to the top floor might, because of the height of the building, be in some cases curtailed from lack of pressure, with the result that very much less water would reach the whole house than with the usual type of service, providing draw-off points on the up-going pipe.
FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table the report of the Finance Committee, No. 6 of June 22, and moved that it be adopted.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded and this was agreed to.
MOTIONS.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER: The resolution standing in my name is intended to regularise the excess of expenditure in- curred in 1932 on the Aberdeen Valley Water Scheme over the quota allocated for that year. This sum was by a Resolution of this Council taken on December 10th, 1931, fixed at $347,000. The actual expenditure however amounted to $405,487.20, an excess of $58,487.20 over the quota approved. $33,509.25 of the excess was due to the work being proceeded with more rapidly than had been anticipated, and the balance, $24,977.95, represents the cost of administration which it was subsequently decided should be charged to the work.
I therefore move "That this Council approves of the additional expenditure of $58,487.20 on the Aberdeen Valley Water Scheme during the financial year 1932, which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony."
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded.
HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK: Sir, As the owner of a house over-looking the Aberdeen Reservoir I am very much dismayed to find a great deal of water, which is the overflow of that Reservoir into what was formerly known as the Paper Mill Reservoir, has been
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