HONGKONG
Revenue Expenditure
859
1920...
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14,689,672
14,489,594
1921...
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17,728,132
15,739,652
1922...
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22,291,064
18,563,002
1923...
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... 24,783,762
21,571,904
1924... 1925...
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24,209,638
26,726,426
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23,244,365
28,266,817
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1927 (revised estimate in September)..
The following figures show the Colony's credit or debit balance at the end of each year from 1915:-
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$ 452,686 2,300,785
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21,131,581 20,535,901 20,103,390
23,524,716
21,584,658
22,183,045
1915 Debit Balance
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1916 Credit Balance
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1917 1918
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1926 1927
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3,268,061
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5,681,138 4,290,187 4,490,266 6,478,745 12,658,642 15,971,495 13,107,549 8,113,482 3,486,290
(estimate) 4,100,439
DESCRIPTION
The island of Hongkong is about 11 miles long and from 2 to 5 miles broad; its circum- ference is about 27 miles. It consists of a broken ridge of lofty hills, with few valleys of any extent and scarcely any ground available for cultivation. The only valleys worthy of the name are those of Wong-nai Chung and Little Hongkong, both of which are remark- ably beautiful and well wooded, being in fact the only parts where any considerable arborescent vegetation was formerly to be found. The island is well watered by numerous streams, many of which are perennial. The city of Victoria and suburbs are supplied with water from the Pokfolum, Tytam, and Wong-nai Chung reservoirs. The first-named, constructed in 1866-69, has a storage capacity of sixty-eight million gallons, while the Tytam reservoir, constructed in 1883-88, and extended in 1896, has an area of about 29 acres and a storage capacity of about three hundred and ninety million gallons. From the Tytam reservoir the water is conveyed into town by means of a tunnel a mile and one-third in length and a conduit along the hillside some 400 feet above the sea level and nearly four miles in length, on which a fine road-called the Bowen Road-has been formed, which coinmands the most charming views of the city and the eastern district, and is a favourite resort of pedestrians. In many parts the conduit is carried over the ravines and rocks by ornamental stone bridges, one of which, above Wanchai, has twenty-three arches. The Wong-nei Chung reservoir, completed in 1899, has a capacity of twenty-seven million gallons. A bye- wash reservoir of about thirty million gallons capacity, situated immediately below the overflow of the Tytam reservoir, was completed in 1903, and a dam at Tytam Tuk to impound 194 million gallons was completed in 1909. A further extension of these waterworks was completed in 1917 at a cost of about $2,400,000, making provision for impounding 1,500 million gallons of water. This was expected to meet the needs of the Colony for another fifteen years but experience in dry seasons has shown that it is barely adequate for present requirements and a project lias been started to dam the Shing Mun river and to tap practically the whole of the Eastern and Southern slopes of Tai Mo Shan. It includes 8,500 acres, or 13 square miles, of catchment area, a large proportion of which will be drained by means of catch-waters. It was proposed eventually to build nine storage reservoirs, varying in size from 55 million to 1,700 million gallons and having an aggregate capacity of 4,500 million gallons, of which 2,400 million gallons, or rather more than the whole storage capacity in the Island of Hongkong, would be stored in gravity, and the remainder would be in pumping reservoir. The water will be conveyed through the Kowloon hills by open conduit and two tunnels, the latter being 2,400 and 4,350 feet in length, respectively. It was intended that the water should be brought down from the Filtered Water Reservoir by 24-inch trunk mains,
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