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DRASTIC RESTRICTIONS ON WATER SUPPLY.

NO RAIN TO BE EXPECTED BEFORE APRIL.

RIDER MAINS TO BE CUT OFF.

STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT POLICY.

Owing to water shortage and the fact that the dry season appears to have set in, which means no heavy rain may fall until April, drastic steps are being taken by the Public Works Depart- ment o conserve the supply on the Island,

Mr. H. T. Creasy, C.B.E., Director of Public Werks, has sued an earnest appeal to the public in the following terms Owing to the low water level of the Storage Reservoirs on the Island it has become a vital necessity that the con- sumption of water for all purposes should be reduced.

The co-operation of the public in preventing waste and reducing consumption to a minimum is earnestly requested.

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RIDER MAINS TO BE CUT OFF.

A second notice states:—

It is proposed on November 1st to cut of all Rider Mains and to place the Rider Main Districts on a street fountain supply available throughout the 24 hours,

The Director of Public Works adds that as yet no "restric tions will be placed on metered troperty, but an urgent append is made to all householders to save water wherever possible and individual meters will be watched and netion taken in the event of waste..

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- A full explanation of the Government's policy has also been

issued and is published below.

NECESSARY TO REDUCE

BY 25 PER CENT.

The Director of Public Works states

Owing to the low water level of the Storage Reservoira on the Island, restriction cf water supply was introduced in the Rider Main Areas on "September 9th."

It was then boped that there might be considerable rainfall to rase the situation before the dry Season finally set in, but that hope has not been realized. "

The dry season appears now to have definitely set in and no effec- tive rainfall can be expected before early April, and it is possible con paratively little may fall till the end of June.

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OUTSIDE THE RIDER MAIN AREAS.

REASONS FOR NOT EXTEND

ING RESTRICTION.

1. DANGER OF FIRE-If the mains were emptied daily, internal fire services would not function and the Fire Brigade would be without the means of fighting fires, at least in their initial stages when the Brigade is most effective. Even with a turneock standing by the necessary valves, in some cases an effective water supply could not be ensured for possibly half an hour for more after notice to turn on

Under the above circumstances,water had bain given. it is necessary to reduce consuing tion on the island to a figure which' will leave a margin of safely under the most unfavourable conditions, and now that the weather is cooler the sooner the necessary restrictions are imposed the less diastic they will require to be

It is proposed on November 1st. to cut off all Rider. Mains and to place the Rider Main Districts on street fountain supply available throughout the twenty-four hours.

It is not, however, fair or reason- able that one section of the com- muuity only should be made, to hear the entire burden of the necessary reduction in supply.

For many reasons it is not con- sidered desirable at present to introduce actual restrictions

to metered property, but the Govern ment would earnestly appeal to all consumers to cut down their supply at least twenty-five per cent, and economise as far as possible in every way:

In the majority of cases a reduc- tion in consumption of twenty-five per cent. merely means cutting out easily avoidable waste.

Bath water should be used for watering gardens and plants and for other purposes, such as washing down verandahs and drains, and servants should be ordered to economise as far as possible.

Read Your Meter Daily!

This disadvantage does not occur in the Rider Main Districts even with a fountain supply, as the principal mains. charged.

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2. UNLESS HOURS OF SUPPLY WERE VERY DRASTICALLY CUT DOWN, THE ECONOMY WOULD E NEGLIGIBLE, "-17 ANY. i

Consumers, would probably draw more than required and would throw away the old water unused and draw fresh water each day.

When the mains Sled up each day, the sediment in them would be stirred up and the first water from the taps would be possibly black and certainly brown. This water would be run

to waste, and so, much of the pessible economy would go down the drains.

This is particularly so in the Peak where the distribution pipes are wrought iron.

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3. CONTINUAL CHARGING AND EMPTYING OF MAINA 18 DANGEROUS. AND CERTAIN TO LEAD TO GUESTS AND LEAKAGES,

When, a main has been emptied, it naturally becomes filled with air, and when the main is recharged this air has to be expelled as the

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27th, 1928.

PICTURE EXHIBITION.

JAPANESE WATER COLOURS.

SOME INTERESTING OIL PAINTINGS,

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The bi-annual exhibition of Japanese painting opens to-day at Mess. Komor and Komor's. The pictures are as interesting on this ocession as they always are, per- haps, more interesting because they include some half dozen cil paint ings and a very large collection of prints besities the usual water colours and pastel. Those artists whose work

we associate with Kamor's exhibitions are all repre- sented together with certain new men Yamamoto, Tenabuchi, Kamo, and many others combine to make this exhibition an opportunity to study and appreciate modern Japan- ese art, and it is interesting to notice that in the foreign medium, oil, the Japanese follows far more closely the Western style.

The Olla.

The oil paintings are studies in technique, often the palette knife has been usil to get brond effects noticeably in the skies. The chief merit in these oil paintings is their exquisite lighting effects, and of course. the skill in composition which seems inborn in the Oriental artis The picture of the moonlit harbour is particularly attractive and there Another woodland scene which is destinetly reminis cent of Corot,

The Water Colours. Among the "water eslours both large and small, there is an immense range of subject and price nithough none of them can be considered coatly. Fuji, the sacred mountain, is represented many times in every mood, and all sides of Japanese life are reflected in portrait studies of both men and women. The temples of Nikko faithfully reproduced in every tiny detail, the lovely and ever changing atmospheric effects of the land of the Rising Sun, and of the seas which encircle her are all treated over and over again, by different artists with a different

vision.

The Prints.

TO CAMP OR NOT TO CAMP.

SIGNS OF A HARD WINTER.

A POSTPONED ENGAGEMENT.

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CHANGES IN HANKOW.

FORTUNE-TELLERS

MUST GO.

MODERN PROGRESS.

I don't know whether it's because I'm getting old or what, but every-

HANKOW, Oct. 18th. body nowadays seems to be worry

The streets of Hankow are to ing about something or other, and from what I rend it would the lover of things Chinese. Old Folk are just chokeful o alarms lose another of their charms for. seem that most of us live in a per: shops are being pulled down. The fect fool's paradise. It doesna' matter what paper or book you swinging signs are being removed.. lift, there's aye plenty of folk and Now the edict has gone forth that to spare crossing mental bridges before they come to them. If it's within the next three months the no future peace in the Pacific, it's astrologers, necromancers, phreno- the rising tide of Mormonism. Or again some bright lad discovers logists and physiognomists are all that in fifty years time folk will to disappear. What a favour of lose the use of their legs or at antiquity there is about even the worst the world's petrol supply hames of these professions! And will peter out.

what a fascinating thing it has

Ther again it's the iniquity of the flapper vote or what's likely to happen to the Bricklayers Union if Chancellors o' the Exchequer take to mixing mortar wi' their aum mer holidays.

been to mingle with the crowd while a wily old boy duped a cousin from the country!

The Country Cousin Inquires. Stand for a minute or two. by listle table. Notice the

As I said to Janet just the other sight it's either the exhaustion o

resources, earthquakes, | natural glacial movements, over-popula this tion, ductless glands. prohibition, Broon's mother said the first time spiritualism or eugenics. Sandy venerable appearance of the gentle- she saw his photo taken in kilts,

man in charge. On his right is it's a terrible business all together the cage containing two small -birds. On the"frunt of the table is a long row of cards edge up. In front of him is his whitepainted writing-board and his ink and pens. All is eminently respectable, despite the animadversions of the recent edicts.

and hard to thole!

Mind ye, there's a lot to be said in favour other Chinese news papers. To the average foreigner they're no' nearly an upsetting. Even wi' some o' the Chinese them selves they're no so wearing, for wi a language like you and the price of rice what it is, it's a dollar to a hard pumeln, that it's a toss-up

The country cousin draws near. whether your cook-boy thinks he's He looks all round. He asks what reading the Three Principles or the it would cost to get a question an-

The old gentleman sym latest scandal at West Point. Ay, swered. a language like that has its com pethetically inquires the nature of persations. If you know what the question, and the bumpkin re- nean, it's no' nearly so disturbing. plies that the farm has been doing But Janet, she doesna' bother hadly owing to the drought and he much about what's likely to hap. has a rich relative in Hankow, en to her great-grand bairns.. Stop, stop. You must not They'll just have to fend for them tell me anything. For four cop- selves, is her idea. Of course, it's pers i will tell you what you want hard for some women to look into to know," "says the fortune teller. the future except it's a case The coppers are paid, the door of booking bridge, engagements and the cage is opened, two grains of worrying whether it i mean

rice are deftly thrown on the need- new fur collar this year.

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Ayed group of cards, and the bird hops out. It swallows the rice and then hauls out a card and drops it before, the old gentleman as it hurries back into cage to get two other grains of rice which have just been thrown inside.

The prints might be roughly divided into three groups. Colour Prints of the modern school, which are gay, full of colour, and extra-we're gut about a hundred weight ordinarily interesting in the way o' second-hand moth balls in our in which quite ordinary and even

house right now but still they ugly objects are made to serve the diana' seem to do much good. It purpose of decoration. Prints of the

means new things every back-end oid school, are mostly copies of just the same excepting, of course, wellknown old masters, of pictures that a dara or two on the old of gods and goddesses, flowers,

man's second-best pair o' trousers animals and birds. Modern original is neither here nor there. Ay, it's prints by well-known masters in a sair fecht besides being the sign 'clude elaborate theatre posters o' a hard winter,

giving seenes exact in every detail from the Japanese stage, and won derful sketches, of expressive faces among many other subjects. Prints from either of the two first groups only cost a dollar or so, while even those of the third are no more ex- pensive than the other pictures of the exhibition."

Komor's exhibitions need no intro- duction to the people of this Cnlay They are always awaited eagerly and the pictures sell like the pro- verbial hot cakes." It is quite necessary for anyone who wishes to see the exhibition as a whole to visit it within the first day on two after opening, since the paintings

ace removed when sold.

HONG KONG SHARE

MARKET..

But Janet, she's hard to put off once she gets a notion into her heid.

"Man," says she, "dinna' blether and let a body have a chance to get a word in edge-ways. Instead of meaning about other folk, what about yoursel'."

Ay, Jass, what now?" Then she started all over again for about the twentieth time about me going to comp.. I'd bean try- ing to heid her off for days but I may just as well have spoken to the Kwokmingtang.

Ay," says she," when it comes to this time o' year, I aye notice i ye get terrible patriotic. If it's

Halloween, it's

no'

the Ball and now you say you've pro- mised a man to go to camp on the 18th. A likely thing to be aure! Set you up wi a kilt cot at Fanling and wearing the boots

The mystic characters on the card are studied. One of them is written in ink on the board. It is looked at from all angies. And then the old gentleman gives the verdiet.. You are in need of money.

You have come from the country to see a rich relative bere. You" hesitate to mention the ques- tion of money. Do not hesitate.

He will listen to all you have to say and certainly help you."" The face of the bumpkin brightens, bu as he goes the old rascal winks at the foreigner. and calls after him, Mind you, I did not say he would lend you all you want."

The Wayside Doctor. But these are not the only folks tables home for the last time in who have to carry their stools and December. The distinguished sur- geons who pull teeth and performa Have acupuncture are to go too. you ever watched one of these men rusty needle plunge a dirty, straight into the body of his patient 1 If you have not, you have not seen how stoically a

off your feet. You'll just write Chinese can endure pain. And and tell him that you canna go

water fills the pipe. With a single MESSRS. BENJAMIN & POTTS travaiging the New Territories

main en a rising grade its filling. is simple and not dangerous, but It is a simple matter for con with complicated mains in cross sumers to read their meters daily and so make sure that their ordersstreets at all sorts of gradients are being carried out.

very slow and careful fillings Government will carefully scruti necessary ar air locks very damag nize the consumptions as registered ing to the joints will form and ly individual meters, and take such hydraulic pressures and shocks will be set up in the maina, causing action as may be deemed necessary where waste is apparent.

pressures far in excess of those the Should voluntary restriction main is designed to withstand. prove ineffective, it will be neces 4. Supplies outside Rider Main sary to introduce compulsory Areas are either by street fountain, restrictions.

ar by meter. Wastage in metered I would appeal to you for your supplies can be quickly noticed, as co-operation generally in the pre-meters are read monthly and com- vention of waste and reduction of

parison can at once he made with consumption.

previous consumptions.

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TWO DAYS FROM PANAMA TO NEW YORK,

the continent in a manner that would have been impossible with the older forms of transport It will bring the West Indies within one day's journey, and Central America and Panama within two days journey, of New York. ·

Mr. Richard F Hoyt is to be Chairman of the new organisation, and the President will be Mr. Cornelius V. Whitney,

REPORT.

Messrs. Benjamin & Potts," in their weekly report on the local share market, dated yesterday, state:-The slight setback in prices

referred to last week seems to have

has not been any extension of husi come to an end and although there news in the local market since the date of our last report, rates seem to have steadied and in soms cases higher quotations are to be record ed especially in the more favourite stocks.

that week-end anyway. You know M.CL. affair on the 17th August, you promised to help me at the that's enough to worry me without. you making it shot wi' they nasty machine guns.

worse getting But I got a loan of a camp bed this," says

their little bottles of pills made even the physicians of repute with

now required, and how can a man from all sorts of queer things must practise no more, Certificates are

sit for a medical examination who

has specialized all his life in mak noxious vapours in the backs of his ing holes large enough to let out

fellow-men and done nothing else. tellers are to apply all through Hupeh Province and the local offi einis are to gather all the old and

The rules about the fortune-

A well you'll be better sleeping in your sin hoose this year. Be sides, if I have my way, you'll sleep without rocking the night you get hame frae Lee Gardens.

blind into homes and to see that "A richt, & richt, and your the younger pues learn

useful. wheest wuman:

As I was saying, material well-trades. Someone will have to do being isna' the ultimate object of some hustling if the homes are to be ready by December. — North life. Spiritual well-being is also China Daily NewA demanded by civilised men and women. Quite so.

All the same, I think you'll agree wit me that the establishment" o' spiritual peace isna' so simple a thing as it looks.

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Steamboats are quoted 28 with no business

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