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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1894. 777
QUESTIONS.--Mr. MCCONACHIE, pursuant to notice, asked the following questions:
(a) Will the Government inform the Council what steps they intend to take or are now taking for increasing the water supply to the city? What will be the estimated additional storage, the probable cost, and description of the proposed new works, and how long they will take to complete?
(b) Is it contemplated to raise the height of the Tytam Dam, if so, how much?
(e) If any, and what provision, is being made (temporary or otherwise) for increasing the water
supply to the city during the coming dry season?
(d) Does the "Water Authority" anticipate there will be any necessity to curtail the daily water
supply during the coming dry season as has been done regularly for the last few years?
The Acting Colonial Secretary replied.
Mr. CHATER, pursuant to notice, asked the following question :---
I would beg to call His Excellency's attention to the constant complaints that are being made as to the state of the roads, and the inconvenience and danger arising from their continually being taken up in the most crowded thoroughfares, and to ask whether any steps are being taken permanently to remedy this state of things?
His Excellency the Governor replied.
NOTICE OF QUESTION.Mr. CHATER gave notice that at the next meeting of Council he would ask the following question :-
As the plague is now virtually stamped out, the deaths and admissions during the last week having been very few, is it contemplated to withdraw the Proclamation declaring Hongkong to be an infected port, and if so when?
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE WOMEN AND GIRLS' PROTECTION ORDINANCE, 1890,' AND ORDINANCE No. 14 of 1891, ENTITLED 'AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE WOMEN AND GIRLS' PROTECTION ORDINANCE, 1890.'"-The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to nem. con.
Bill read a first time.
BILL ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE FOR THE SUMMARY RESUMPTION OF CERTAIN CROWN Lands SITUATE IN THE TAIPINGSHAN DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.-The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of the Bill, and addressed the Council.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Mr. CHATER addressed the Council on the subject of the Bill.
Question-put and agreed to nem. con.
Bill read a first time.
ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned till Monday, the 3rd September.
Read and confirmed, this 3rd day of September, 1894.
J. G. T. BUCKLE,
Acting Clerk of Councils.
WILLIAM ROBINSON,
Governor.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 332.
The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published.
J. G. T. BUCKLE, Acting Clerk of Councils.
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 3rd September, 1894.
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