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finished with Tong Fuk. A year or two later, there were similar difficulties over blasting during construction of the access road to the new catch waters above the village. This time, perhaps owing to location, the position must have been deemed more serious for the villagers, and at their request expenditure for a protective ritual was approved to take care of village concerns. This ritual action was described in the Notes and Queries section of this Journal not long after the event (JHKBRAS 5(1965), pp. 122-4).

A year or two after the events I am describing here, the catch waters for the new reservoir were under construction behind Tong Fuk village. Mindful of the need to provide water for irrigation, pipes and taps were installed to ensure this supply before any flow from the stream courses was taken for the reservoir. However, displeased with the whole business, some villagers sawed off the heads of the water taps, so as to maintain a continuous flow of water to their fields, as hitherto, freeing themselves from irksome constraints and engineers' decisions as to what constituted "enough".

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259 finished with Tong Fuk. A year or two later, there were similar difficulties over blasting during construction of the access road to the new catch waters above the village. This time, perhaps owing to location, the position must have been deemed more serious for the villagers, and at their request expenditure for a protective ritual was approved to take care of village concerns. This ritual action was described in the Notes and Queries section of this Journal not long after the event (JHKBRAS 5(1965), pp. 122-4). A year or two after the events I am describing here, the catch waters for the new reservoir were under construction behind Tong Fuk village. Mindful of the need to provide water for irrigation, pipes and taps were installed to ensure this supply before any flow from the stream courses was taken for the reservoir. However, displeased with the whole business, some villagers sawed off the heads of the water taps, so as to maintain a continuous flow of water to their fields, as hitherto, freeing themselves from irksome constraints and engineers' decisions as to what constituted "enough".
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259 finished with Tong Fuk. A year or two later, there were similar difficulties over blasting during construction of the access road to the new catch waters above the village. This time, perhaps owing to location, the position must have been deemed more serious for the villagers, and at their request expenditure for a protective ritual was approved to take care of village concerns. This ritual action was described in the Notes and Queries section of this Journal not long after the event (JHKBRAS 5 (1965), pp. 122-4). i A year or two after the events I am describing here, the catch waters for the new reservoir were under construction behind Tong fuk village. Mindful of the need to provide water for irrigation, pipes and taps were installed to ensure this sup- ply before any flow from the stream courses was taken for the reservoir. However, displeased with the whole business, some villagers sawed off the heads of the water taps, so as to maintain a continuous flow of water to their fields, as hitherto, freeing themselves from irksome constraints and engineers' decisions as to what constituted "enough”.
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finished with Tong Fuk. A year or two later, there were similar difficulties over blasting during construction of the access road to the new catch waters above the village. This time, perhaps owing to location, the position must have been deemed more serious for the villagers, and at their request expenditure for a protective ritual was approved to take care of village concerns. This ritual action was described in the Notes and Queries section of this Journal not long after the event (JHKBRAS 5 (1965), pp. 122-4).

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A year or two after the events I am describing here, the catch waters for the new reservoir were under construction behind Tong fuk village. Mindful of the need to provide water for irrigation, pipes and taps were installed to ensure this sup- ply before any flow from the stream courses was taken for the reservoir. However, displeased with the whole business, some villagers sawed off the heads of the water taps, so as to maintain a continuous flow of water to their fields, as hitherto, freeing themselves from irksome constraints and engineers' decisions as to what constituted "enough”.

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