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STERANCIS

HOTEL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933.

WATER WASTAGE

SIR HENRY POLLOCK'S COMPLAINT

OUR BRITISH, FRENCH & RUSSIAN FOOD made by the Hon. Sir Henry

MENU

TIFFIN $1.25.

1. Spring Shtchi.

2. Cold Consommo.

3. Fish Cutlet. 4Chop Sui and Noodles, Lamb Cutlet & Pea Sauce, 5. Roast Stuffed Chicken.

Cold Assorted Meat & Salad,

3. Potatoes & Vegetables.

9: Baignets de Pommes.

10. Fruit.

1.1. Tea,

12. Coffee.

MENU

DINNER $1,50

1. Lobster Cocktail.

2. Barley Soup.

3. Rolled Oats.

4. Golden Tips.

5. Salmi Coose.“

6. Baked Breast of Beef.'

7. Potatoes & Vegetables.

8. Chocolate Blancmange. 9. Chrese. 10. "Fruit. 11. Tea.

12. Coffee.

SNACK TIFFIN $1.00. -

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something like fourteen Inches of rain below the average, that this a very wastoful policy to puraue, and I strongly urge that the Government stop the cleanlug out of the bottom of the Paper Mill and that the water which overflows

the Aberdeen Reservoir be left in the Paper M Reservoir and Impounded Instead of wasted.

from

A plea for careful conservation of the Colony's water supplies was Pollock at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Counell.

The Hon. Director of Public Sir Henry's complaint was made Works. It is anticipated that the during consideration of n-resolu- quantity of allt proposed to bo tion to spend $58,487.20 this year removed from the lower, Reservoir on the Aberdeen Valley water will be completed within the next scheme.

week or two after which the

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LONDON STOCK PRICES

MARKET GENERALLY

VERY FIRM ·

The following quotations on the London Stock Exchango have been roceived by Messrs. Swan, Culbertson and Fritz in conjunction with Router. The market: Generally very firm in spite of its paucity of business.

Chinese Bonda

Aug. 2. Aug. 3,

The resolution, moved by the lower Reservoir will be used for 44% Bonds 1898 Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mr. impounding water. If we have Eng. Iss....... £100% M. J. Breon) was made as follows, heavy rains in the meantima wo41% Loan 1908. £ 824 That this Council approves of shall close down our works and 5% Loan 1912 ....... £ 601⁄4 the additional expenditure of make use of the rainfall from the 6% Reorg. Lonn $58,487.20 on the Aberdeen Valley catchment area. Water Scheme during the financial- yoar 1932, which sum shall be 'met a future loan and from

shall meanwhile bo charged as an ad- vance from the surplus balances of the Colony.

Mr. Breen said. The resolu- tion, standing in my name, is in- tended to regulariae the excess of expenditure incurred in 1932, on Water the Aberdeen Valley Scheme, over the quota allocated for that year."

The resolution was agreed to.

WATER SERVICES.

Insufficient Pressure On Top Floors.

£100% £82 £ 67%

1013 Tan, Iss. ..£80 65% Bonds 1925-47 & 88% 6% Shai-Nanking

£40 Rly.

£ 88%

£ 89%

£ 40

5% Tiont-Pukow

Rly.

£ 21-20 £ 21-20

5% Tlent.-Pukow Railway (Supl. Riy.

5% Shai-Hang- chow - Ningpo Rly. 6% Honan Rly.... 6% Hukuang Rly.

1911

6% Lung Tsing U.

COUNCIL QUESTIONS.

The Government has no objec- This sum, was, by a Resolutiontion to landlords installing water of this Council taken on Decem-fittings which supply top floor! ber 10, 1931, fixed at $347,000. first, in place of those which now The netual exponditure, however, lead from bottom to top floora.

This briefly, was the reply of amounted to $405,487.20, an ex-

1024 Hon. Director of Públic cess of $68,487.20 over the quota works (Mr. A. G. W. Tickle) to à approved. $83,609.25 of the ex- Cens was due to the work being question asked by the Hon. Mr. proceeded with, more rapidly than R. H. Kotowall in the Legislative had been anticipated, and the Council yesterday.

Mr. Kotowall asked.~In view of balance,

the

Japan 6% Sterling

18-23 18-23

& Breweries

81-86

£ 12

£ 27 .......... € 27

Ini Rly. 1013. £ 12 £ 12

Foreign Bonds & Banks German 7% In- ternat. Loan

£81-80 £ 12

81

Lonn 1007... £ 85

81%

£ 86

£ 92

£ 0244

A

20/- 207-

110/-

110/-

28/0

28/0

58/6

58/0

38/- 38/3

79/6

78/0

34/6 34/0

28/B

28/-

42/0

42/9

97/6

07/0

20/0 20/0

107/- 106/2

28/74 28/0

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32/- 32/3 32/0 33/3. 27/0

27/6

Miscellaneous

16/9

1773

$24,977.95, represents the cost of administration, which the complaints received that water It Was subsequently decidedi should be charged to the work.

I therefore move "That this Council approves of the additional

Aberdeen Valley Water Scheme during the financial year 193g which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile

Japan 0% Sterling

Loan 1924

Industriala Associated Elec.

Industries does not reach the third and Brit-Amer. Tob. higher floors of many houses on Chinese Eng. &

Min. account of insufllclent pressure whenever restrictions are impor-J. & P. Conta ed, will the Government grant Courtaulds

to permission

property-Distillera owners as may apply for it, to Dunlop Rubber have the water-pipes fald frst to Everready the topmost floors and

thence General Elec.

Guinness ...

association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Poking expenditure of $68,487.20 on the

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be charged as an advance from onwards, instead of from the Impl. Chem. In- the surplus balances of the ground floors and upwards as at dustries Colony."

present? If not, what are theImpl. Tobacco The Colonial Secretary second-Government's reasons?

Int. Tea Stores ... The Hon. D.P.W. replied.Int. Nickel There is no dopartmental objec-Pinchin Johnson tion to the proposal, and or-Turner & Newall The Hon. SiHenry Pollock-dinarily the Water Authority Unilever Sir, as the owner of a house over- would not refuse connexion to looking the Aberdeen Reservoir, services of the design referred to, materials and am very much dismayed to find a subject to the great deal of water, which is the fittings being of approved quality. overflow of that Reservoir into The Iny-out of the inside service

Anglo-Dutch

Canadian Pacific Burma Corpn Rs. 18/7 18/9

Rly. Gata Kalumpong

Rubber

Trepca

Langiangte

London Tin Rubber Trusts Van Ryn Deep

what was formerly known as the lis a matter which, chiefly con- Paper Mill Reservoir, has boen (cerns the landlord. allowed to run to waste, I under- The alteration would, however, stand from the Hon. Director of not provide a satisfactory solu- Public Works, to whom I have tion of the difficulty. With the Estates spoken on this matter, that that pipes installed as suggested, the may possibly be due to the fact supply of water to the top floor that the Government is cleaning might, because of the height of up the silt at the bottom of the the building, be in some CLSCA Reservoir, but I do submit that curtailed from lack of pressure, it is very wasteful at the present with the result that very much Anglo-Persian On time when we have a considerable less water would reach the whole Burmah Oil overflow to allow it to run to house than with tho usual type of Royal Dutch Waste. I ́venture to suggest to service, providing draw-off points Shell the Government that as we are on the up-going pine.

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