567403-1929-Supplementary-Draft-Regulations---Regulation-under-section-23-of-Water-works-Ordinance-106 — Page 2

Fan Ling.

Shipping and water boats.

Building supplies.

Application.

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(10) The price of all unfiltered water supplied by meter at Fan Ling shall be one dollar per thousand gallons: provided that the special price hitherto charged for water supplied to the Royal Hongkong Golf Club at Fan Ling shall remain in force.

(11) The price of all water supplied by meter to shipping direct through pipes on wharves or piers, or supplied by meter to water boats, shall be two dollars per thousand gallons, and the price of all water supplied to shipping otherwise than direct through pipes on wharves or piers shall be four dollars per thousand gallons.

(12) The price of all water supplied by meter for building purposes shall be two dollars per thousand gallons.

(13) This regulation shall have effect only in respect of water supplied by meter in the third quarter of 1929, and for the purpose of this paragraph the word quarter with reference to any particular meter shall be construed as meaning the period between two consecutive readings of the meter as provided by Regulation 7 of these regulations for the purpose of calculating the quarterly consumption.

2. The following regulation is inserted in the said regulations immediately after Regulation 1:

IA. No person shall wilfully or negligently misuse or waste, or cause or allow to be misused or wasted, any water taken from a public fountain or public tank.

3. Regulation 13 of the said regulations is amended by the insertion of the words, "with such variations (if any) as the Water Authority may consider desirable,” imme- diately after the word "regulations in the fifth line thereof.

4. The following note is added to Form C in the Schedule to the above regula- tions:

NOTE. This form may be altered by the Water Authority as he may consider

desirable.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

July, 1929.

Clerk of Councils.