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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WATER SHORTAGE..

A FULL SUPPLY FROM

·TO-MORROW.`

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1928.

LIMEWASHING PUMP.

DISPUTE OVER $100.

DEVICE WHICH CAN BE WORKED BY ONE MAN.

PLAINTIFF SUCCEED IN SUMMARY COURT.

Residents of the Central and At the meeting of the Sanitary "It is a pocullar thing that people Western districts will be intarest-Board held yesterday, the Chair- always think that they owe poople ed to learn that at yesterday's man (Mr. W. J. Carrie) announce less than, they do, and think that meeting of the Sanitary Boarded that the question of limewash-people owe them more than they the Chairman, Mr. W. J. Carrie, ing for next year had come up do," remarked Mr. O. A.'S. Russ in in answer to certain questions re-again. The Bourd had received a the Summary Court yesterday lating to the present water res-new type of pump called the Solo during the hearing of a claim for trictions, indicated that it is hoped Pump which could be worked by $483.78. The plaintiff, Wo Keo- to give a full-supply to the Cen-one man." tral and Westorn districts from to-morrow morning.

buted.

tseung, aued Sun Kam-kee for that amount in respect of goods sold and delivered. Mr. Russ was for the plaintiff, the defendant being present in person.

Mr. Russ said that the only dis-

The Chairman stated that one of the objections to the old pump In making the announcement, which nooded the service of ono the chairman remarked that the man to pump and one to hold the rain which had fallen this last spray was that when the order to week-end had again been dis-stop the pump was given there pute was with regard to the sum appointing and unevenly distri-was a certain amount of delay alleged he had paid to the plaintiff of $100 which the defendant which led to some of the whitewash which sum had not been entered There were present at the meet- dripping on the floor. With the in the books. The plaintiff's books ing, besides the Chairman, Dr. G.Solo Pump, shọ....... stop

were perfectly clear on the matter, W. Pope, (Medical Officer of effected at any time. The spray Mr. Russ continued. The account Health), the Hon. Mr. H. T. was finer and the Chairman added ran from March 23, 1927, until Creasy; (Director of Public that there would be much less March, this year, when the last Works), Mr. J.. P. Braga, Ist, Col

payment was made. more comfort these Hot Days. S. Bostock, Dr. S. W. Tao, Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, Dr. S. C. Ho and than a reliable

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The questions, as put by Dr. S. W. Tso and the anawera by the Head of Sanitary Department are glyen below:

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could be

At the present moment, they The total value of goods supplied had only one Solo Pump so far, was $6,602.18 and the total sum but more would be here when the paid by the defondant was $5,168.- limewashing, season started in 40, leaving the balance claimed. October. He moved that me Mr. Russ added it was nearly cor-: washing be taken up departmental-tain that the dispute arose over ly and that the price be at $3.84 two payments of $50 each, one on a flat..

March 6 and another on March

13, this year. Those amounta

Q: (1) "Are the following state- Dr. Pope seconded and the mo-totalled $100 and if that was the

ments as appeared in the Chin-tion was carried unanimously.

Jaum the defendant stated he had pald and which had not been on- Dr. S. W. Tso, prior to the adoptered, it had, in fact, been duly

The defendant produced books

ese newspapers, purporting to be made by the Water Au- thority in explanation of the ion of the motion, mentioned that recorded. condition of water supply in the Board might direct such in- the Central and Western dis speciors na were in charge of tricts, correct? namely: that limewashing to see that the top which he profossed to be unable the fullest capacity of the Pok-floors were limewashed first in all to read, saying that another man fulam Reservoir which sup cases and that the roof be spray.kept the books for him. He had, plies the Central and Western jed before the walls, so as to avoid however, left as the shop had been closed. He admitted that he owed. districts is sixty-alx million as much dripping as possible.

some $300 odd but said he was not sure.

gallons, out of which, five mil lion gallons are useless;

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The Chairman remarked that he thought that had been the practice A: The questions have been re- in the past and assured Dr. Tao ferred to Government and I that in any case he would see that am authorised to make the the latter's suggestions were car-: following replies:-Yes, the fried out. full capacity of Pokfulam Rc-| servoir is 60 million gallons, but water from Pokfulam is

usually supplied to the Cen- tral District.

Q: That 20 days before the re- atriction on water supply in Central districts .com- the menced Pokfulam Reservoir was full to overflow;

A: Restriction was not imposed

until 37 days after Pokfulam Q: Reservoir had ceased to be full.

Daily Consumption.

| Q: That, on full supply, the Cen- tral and Western districts consume three, million gul- long daily;

A: The figure giyen is incor- rest. On full supply, im- mediately prior to the present restriction, the Central and Western Districts were con- suming approximately 9.5 mil- lion gallons a day and on rea. tricted supply approximately 7.2 million gallons are being used.

Q: That the Tytam Reservoir can give a supply of eight million gallons a day.

Is supplying only 500,000 gal-

His Lordship asked the defen- dant why, if he was not sure of |the amount he owed, did he dis-

pute the claims.

Defendant replied that he was told the debt was about $300,

His Lordship gave judgment for

lons a day; this, with the the plaintiff. supply from Tytam and Tyłam Tuk, makes 2,400,000 gallons for the Western Districts. The Central District gets ap- proximately a further 6 millión gallóns.

Water Pressure.

That the force of the water from the Tyinm Reservoir to the Central and Western dia- the tricts is weak because supplying pipe to these din tricts is small; and because every one draws water at the same time during the hour of supply the water cannot be forced up to the upper floors of the houses in the rider-main districts.

A: The water passed

A: Tytam and Tytam Tuk Re- acrvoirs could at present supply 8 million gallons a day, but the Bowon Road Conduit is only designed to carry 7Q: million gallona a day. Of this only 1.9 million gallons can be passed to the Elliott Filter Beds in the Western District. 2.9 million gallone pass through the Albany Filter Beds and 2.2 through the Bowen Road Filter to the Cen- tral District. These figures are of course approximate.

Q: That during the period of restriction the Pokfulam Re- servoir supplies to the Cen-

to the Elliott Filter Beds to supple-

ment the Pokfulam supply is less than it could be if the Bowen Road Conduit was big- ger and the pipe line exten- sion beyond the Albany Filter Beds larger, but the maximum amount possible is being dell- vered. The pressure in the Altered water mains is wenken. ed by the heavy drain caused by the simultaneous opening

of taps in all the houses of a district.

That the difference in rain- fall between the Tytam area and the Pokfulam aren is that while Tytam gets 8.85 inches Fckfulam gels only 3.36 In- ches.

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A: The comparative rainfall. quoted represents the figures for one day only. It is, how- ever, a fact that during the re- cent shortage rainfall at Pok- fulam has been considerably leas than the rainfall at Tytam.

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give these two districts additional 500,000 gallons a day in order to keep them on full supply?

A: It will be seen from the above detailed replies that the differ- ence between full and restrict- ed supply in the Central and Western Districts is appro- ximately 2.3 million gallons at day. During the present re- striction, owing to shortage at Pokfulam, which normally supplies up to 3 million gallons a day, only 500,000 gallons dre being delivered, Every effort has been and is being made to supply the deficiency from Tytam and Tytam Tuk Reservoirs and the maxi- mum amounts (1.9 million gal- lons) which the Conduit and pipeline will carry, have been passed to the Western Dis- trict.

What are the measures, tem- porary or otherwise, taken by the Government to deal with shortage of water supply to these two most populous dis- tricla during the hot season ?"! A: The above replies show the temporary measures that have been taken to deal with the shortage of water supply which is mainly felt in the Western District. Plans for Waterworks extension both on the Island and pu the Main- land are under consideration and it is hoped that a decision on the programme of works will be made at an early date,

Full Supply To-morrow,

In addition to the above, una- wers, the Chairman also made

tral and Western districts Q: If the above statements are the following statement: "The

·750,000 gallons per day and

the Tytam Reservoir 1,750,000

gallons; making a total supply

of 2,500,000 gallons per day.. A: During the period of

striction Pokfulam Reservoir

re-

correctly reported the differ-rain which bas fallen this last ence on full supply and re-week-end has again been dis- stricted supply in these two appointing and unevenly distri districts is only 500,000 gal-buted. It is hoped, however, to lons per day. What is reason give a full supply to the Central cause therefore that, the and Western Districts on Thurs- Tytam Reservoir, could not day morning, the 9th August."

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