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tenement situate within a rider main district in respect of which the sanction of the Governor in Council for a connexion with any principal main has been obtained, sub- ject to the owner giving the undertaking required by section 5:
Provided always that,-
(1) in the case of a tenement situate within a rider main district, the service to any tenement shall be connected with a rider main unless the sanction of the Governor in Council for a connexion with any principal main shall have been obtained; or
(2) in the case of a tenement situate outside the City of Victoria or situate in Kowloon or the New Territories, save and except when so directed by the Governor in Council, the Water Authority shall be under no obligation to connect the service. with the Waterworks where in the opinion of the Water Authority there is an ade- quate provision of public fountains."
24. The Ordinance was confirmed in Secretary of State's despatch No. 416 of 17th November, 1903.
25. The laying of the Rider-mains was commenced in 1904 and was completed in 1906. In all 28.35 miles of mains were laid, and 7,291 tenements were connected, at a total cost of $212,802.13. The amount collected from the owners of property was $222,069.96, leaving a balance of $9,267.83. The tax of 1% on the rateable value of tenement houses, which landlords of property in the rider main areas were prepared to pay for the maintenance of the rider mains, in addition to the first cost of installing these mains, has never been levied, and the cost of maintenance has at all times been borne by Government.
26. At the time Rider mains were sanctioned the Colony's water supply was ob tained from three Reservoirs :
Pokfulam (1863-1871) Storage capacity, Tytam (1889-1897)
Wongneichong (1899)
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Total:
66,000,000 galls. 384,800,000
30,340,000
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481,140,000 galls.
27. The population of Hong Kong island was then (1901 census) 283,905. The storage capacity therefore provided 1,695 gallons per head.
28. Since that date the following additions have been made to the Colony's water storage capacity:
Storage
Completed
capacity
(gallons)
Tytam Byewash Reservoir.
1904
22,370,000
Tytam Intermediate Reservoir
1907
195.914,000
Kowloon Reservoir
1910
352,500,000
Tytamtuk Reservoir
1917
1,419,000,000
Sheklaipui Reservoir
1925
116,000,000
Shing Mun Reception Reservoir
1926
33,150,000
Kowloon Byewash Reservoir.
1931
185,000,000
Aberdeen Upper Reservoir
1931
178,000,000
Total additions since 1902
2,501,934.000
Total present storage capacity of all
Reservoirs
2,983,074,000
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