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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 28, 1929.
There is plenty of water at Taipo, but the Fanling supply is getting rather
low.
Emergency Measures.
The following emergency measures have been taken to augment the ordinary
supplies.
In November, 1928, 4 steel tanks, each of 30,000 gallons capacity, were cabled for from England and arrived in the Colony on 28th January, 1929. Two were erected at Western Street and Sutherland Street, and came into operation on the 21st March. The other two were erected at Western Market and Gilman Street, and came into operation on the 9th and 14th April respectively. The total quantity delivered to these 1 tanks to date from the Laichikok Water Boat Dock is 22.63 million gallons, or an average of 0.257 million gallons a day. For the past few weeks daily delivery has been over 330,000 gallons a day.
Two other steel tanks were purchased locally and have been erected at Douglas Wharf and Centre Street. The former is supplied by the Douglas Company steamers when in port and also by H.M.S. Cherub from time to time.
The remainder of the tanks (15) are of brick and reinforced concrete con- struction, nine having been built by the Tung Wah Hospital Authorities and the last six erected by Government on the new Praya East Reclama- tion. The following is a list of the various tanks shewing their positions and capacity, totalling over 1,000,000 gallons. The additional Tanks will be available for intermittent sources of supply from steamers bring- ing water from outports and for the supplies from Wang Mun and Tsun Wan.
(a) Steel Tanks.
Tanks Erected.
Erected by the Water Works Office.
Total Number, Six.
(1) at Western Street. (2) at Sutherland Street. (3) at Western Market. (4) at Gilman Street.
(5) at Douglas Street.
(6) at Centre Street.
(b) Brick Tanks.
Total Capacity, 754 Tons.
Erected by the Tung Wah Hospital Authorities. Total Number, Nine.
(1) at Davis Street (for launches only).........138 Tons. (2) at Sands Street junct. Connaught Road ...381 Tons.
(3) at Hill Road junct. Connaught Road
(4) at Water Street
...315 Tons.
.339 Tons.
339 Tons.
.362 Tons.
(5) at Eastern Street...
(6) at Queen's Street
(7) at Cleverly Street
337 Tons.
(8) at Harbour Office
.337 Tons.
(9) at Pottinger Street
337 Tons.
Total Capacity, 2,747 Tons.
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