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HONGKONG
includes the construction of a dam 110 ft. in height impounding about 180 million gallons. The existing Aberdeen Paper works dam having a capacity of about 90 million gallons was purchased by Government and will be incor- porated in the Scheme.:
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A steel pipe line 18 ins. in diameter is being laid to the Elliot Filter Beds above West Point, where a Rapid Gravity Filtration Plant is being erected, capable of dealing with 4 million gallons daily.
Two large catchwaters are also included in the Scheme, which when com- pleted will add a minimum of 2.1 million gallons per day to the Island's Supply.
Further development in the Shing Mun Valley in now under consideration, with a view to providing storage for the enormous quantity of water which annually runs to waste from that Valley.
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The natural productions of the Colony are few and unimportant. There is little land suitable for tillage, and nothing is grown but a little rice and some vegetables near the outlying villages. There are large granite quarries, both on the island and in Kowloon, and there is a small export of this stone. A bed of fire clay exists at Deep Water Bay, and bricks and earthenware pipes are manufactured from it. The forests now growing up may one day become a source of revenue, when sufficiently extensive, from the periodical thinnings. The approaches to the port are well lighted. The western entrance has the following lights :-
Gap Rock Light-Fl. every 3 seconds, visible 18 miles. Connected to the
port by Wireless Telegraphy.
Green Island Light-Fl. W. R. every 8 seconds, visible 16 miles. Connected
to the Port by Telephone.
Central Fairway North Buoy: Fl. every 3 seconds. South Buoy: Fl.
every 3 seconds.
At the eastern entrance there are:-
Waglan Island Light Group: Fl. every 10 seconds, visible 21 miles. Con- nected to the Port by Telephone, Telegraph and Wireless Telegraphy Diaphone Fog Signal.
Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Telegraphy Station.
Tathong Point Light-Fl, W. R. every 5 seconds, visible 2 miles. Fog
Bells every 30 seconds.
Cape Collinson Light-Double Fl. W. R. every 10 seconds, visible 16 miles. Lyeemoon Pass Lights-North Side: Fl. R. every 5 seconds. South Side:
Fl. R. every 5 seconds.
Channel Rocks Fl. every 5 seconds.
Cust Rock Beacon-Fl. every 3 seconds.
Chin Sal Chiu Point Light-Fl. W. R. every 3 seconds, visible 10 miles.
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The harbour of Hongkong is one of the finest and most beautiful in the world, having an area of ten square miles, and, with its diversified scenery and varied shipping, presents an animated and imposing spectacle. It consists of the sheet of water between the island and the mainland, and is enclosed on all sides by lofty hills, formerly destitute of foliage, but now becoming clothed, especially on the island, with young forests, the result of the affore- station scheme of the Government. The city of Victoria is magnificently situated, the houses, many of them large and handsome, rising, tier upon tier, from the water's edge to a height of over five hundred feet on the face of the Peak, while many buildings are visible on the very summit of the hills. Seen from the water at night, when lights twinkle among the trees and houses, the city, spreading along the shore for five miles, affords a sight not readily to be forgotten.
Nor on landing are the favourable impressions of the stranger dissipated or lessened. The city is well built, the roads and streets are for the most part admirably made and kept, and a few of the thoroughfares delightfully
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