CO129-572-16 Proposals to prevent wastage of water 30-3-1938 - 15-9-1938 — Page 30

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Сорига саз

No. 247

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

30th March, 1938.

30

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Enclosure 1.

Enclosure 2.

Sir,

I have the honour to inform you that I

consider it very desirable to take systematic measures

for the detection and prevention of waste of water

in the Colony, having regard to the increasing

difficulty in finding fresh supplies of water to meet

the ever increasing demand.

2.

I enclose a note prepared by the Water Engineer on the estimated cost of equipment and

maintenance of a waste detection service and also a

report on certain experimental waste detection work

which has been undertaken during the last year. The

full service envisaged in the first of these

enclosures must take two or three years to bring

into operation as the necessary waste detection

meters can only be purchased gradually having regard

to the staff available to supervise installation

and maintenance.

3.

I propose as a first step to provide

$25,000 for the installation of waste detection

meters and equipment during the present year allowing

for approximately twenty meters and further that

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

W.G.A.ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,

&c., &C., &c.

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