CO129-577-7 Water Supply- Tai Lam Chung Valley reservoir 8-8-1939 - 26-1-1940 — Page 22

ALL COMMUNICATIONS

TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE

CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES,

THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE AND THE

OATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED.

Z/E.254/17

TELEGRAMS

INLAND: "crown sowEST LONDON,"

OVERSEAS: CROWN LONDON,"

TELEPHONE: ABBEY 7730,

Sir,

CROWN

AGENTS

FOR

THE

COLONIES

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4, MILLBANK,

11-

LONDON, S.W. 1.

5th January, 1940.

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3.1.40.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

your letter No. 53687/39 of the 22nd December transmitting

a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong

regarding the proposed construction of a storage reservoir

in the Tai Lam Chung Valley.

2.

As Messrs. Binnie, Deacon & Gourley were the

It

Consulting Engineers for the Shing Mun Valley scheme in

Hong Kong, we asked them if they would be willing to act in

a similar capacity for the scheme now proposed and we

enclose a copy of their reply dated the 3rd January.

will be seen that the firm will be pleased to act as

Consulting Engineers and either Mr. W.J.E. Binnie or

Mr. H.J.F. Gourley, both of whom visited Hong Kong in

connection with the Shing Mun Valley scheme, is prepared

to visit Hong Kong as soon as the full results of the

preliminary investigations are available.

This

3. The Governor of Hong Kong, in paragraph five of

his despatch of the 8th August, stated that a considerable

amount of useful information regarding the scheme had been

collected and that boring operations on a possible site

for a dam were then in progress. We think it is important

that all the data collected should be submitted to the

Consulting Engineers for consideration before a partner of

The Under Secretary of State,

10

Colonial Office.

/the

CA