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(v.) Distribution Works,—An 8" main was laid in Gascoigne Road, connecting to the Yaumati distribution system by a 4" temporary main and extending along Des Voeux Road as far as Bulkeley Street, Hunghom. The Gascoigne Road section constitutes an addition to the system, but the Des Voeux Road section only supersedes an old 5" main. which was in turn taken up and relaid as far as Station Street, superseding an old 3" maiu. A 4" main

was laid along Temple Street, Yaumati, from Waterloo Road to Market Street; a 3" main from Station Street North to Ship Lane, Taikoktsui, and a 4" main in Ship Lane. These all constitute extensions of the distribution system.

The above included the laying of:

4,100 feet 8" cast iron pipes.

2,300 5"

3,100

4"

2)

Fire Hydrants to the number of 22 were fixed on the new mains.

77. Fytum Tuk Scheme-First Section.-Good progress was made with this work from January to May, but. from June to October it was again auch retarded by the prevalence of sickness among the men employed. The typhoons of the 18th and 29th of September did practically no damage to permanent works but almost completely destroyed all the contractor's matsheds and scaffoldings thus causing serious interference with the work at a time when it was about freed from the impediment caused by sickness.

(i.) Dam.-The dam was constructed to an average height of 195.5 feet above Ordnance Datum or 4 feet 6 inches below the level of the overflow crest. The following are the quantities of material used in its construction during the year :--

Cement concrete,.

Rubble masonry facework,

Ashlar masonry

8,500 enbic yards.

296

26,000

feet.

At the close of the year, water was impounded in the reservoir to the extent of 120 million gallons, standing at 15 feet below the overflow crest.

(ii) Pumping Station.The engine-house, boiler-house, fue and chimney were all practically completed with the exception of internal finishings. The boilers were set in position early in the year and the erection of the first engine was begun in July, and of the second in October. By the close of the year the heavy cast iron bed-plates together with many of the smaller parts of both engines were in place.

(iii.) New Roal.-The new road (with the exception of the bridge over the stream below the dam and the adjoining cutting) was completed to formation level and was ready for surfacing and channelling, the pipes for the rising main having been laid and covered up. The bridge already mentioned was completed to springing level and the centering crected.

(iv.) Access Roads to Pumping Station and Gauge Basin.-The roadd to the Pumping Station was completed except some trimming off and surfacing and channelling and the 12- foot track to the gauge basin at the Tytam tunnel inlet was in a forward state, with the pipes strung out ready for laying as soon as the trench had been excavated.

(v.) Rising Main, 18" diameter. Good progress was made with this work, the length of main laid during the year amounting to about 7,650 lineal feet. The requisite valves, washouts, &c. were fixed.

(vi.) Suction Main, 18" diameter.—The laying of this main was completed, 3,619 feet being laid during the year.

Reconstruction of No. 2 Tank.--This work was not proceeded with and, owing to recent developments in the High Level District of the City and in the Peak District, it is likely to be abandoned in favour of another scheme.