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Q-Even if it gave us not as much as the present Tytam dam, that would put us ahead of our requirements for some time?
A-Yes.
Q--And do you think that would be preferable to conveying it across the har-
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A-It would be cheaper.
Q-You say it would be cheaper than conveying it across the harbour?
A-It would be; it is not only the conveying across the harbour, but there is also the conveying from the slopes of Taimo-shan.
Q-With regard to Kowloon water supply, you have read the scheme which Mr. CHATHAM has drawn up, have you not ?
A-Yes. But the scheme is essentially my scheme modified by acceptance of the suggestions of Mr. CHADWICK and Mr. ORMSBY.
Q-And when that is carried out, have you any idea of what time that will put us ahead of our requirements in Kowloon?
A-It is really impossible to say. It depends upon the growth of Kowloon entirely, and it has grown at the rate of 70 per cent., as Mr. CHATHAM pointed out, in four years, and if it continues at that rate, you will want a new scheme entirely in another ten years.
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At the present rate of progress, it will supply us for ten years?
I have not worked it out.
-But speaking roughly?
A-Roughly speaking, it will.
Q-It has been pointed out that there has been delay in carrying out this water scheme ?
A--Well, I don't think there is much question about that. My original report on the Kowloon gravitation scheme went in two years ago, and nothing is started yet.
Q-That is with regard to the Kowloon scheme?
A-Yes.
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A-Mr. COOPER's report was dated May, 1896, and the works he showed to be necessary for the then requirements were only completed about two years ago, and they are only just now starting works which were shown to be necessary for what were then the future but are now the present needs.
Q-Do you know why there has been such delays ?
A-I am not in a position to say.
By Colonel Brown.-You say you made a report on the Kowloon Water- works scheme. Did you design them?
A-I designed them.
Q-When you were in the Public Works Department ?
A-Yes.
Q-And you are now carrying them out as a member of the firm of DENISON, RAM & GIBBS ?
A-We hope to be, soon.
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