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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 18, 1936,

THE

The Story Behind the Present Water Shortage FEVERISH PREPARATIONS FOR

RAIN THAT DIDN'T COME

NORMAL RAINFALL WOULD HAVE MEANT END OF WATER RESTRICTIONS

"Telegraph" Special Correspondent

There is more than a touch of irony in the fact that the Engineers in construction of the world's largest re- servoir of its type-Jubilee Dam-have worked feverishly in order to complete specific operations in time for the! rainy season—to be foiled by the drought now somewhat alleviated, although more rain is still needed.

Capable already of impounding from 600 to 700 million gallons of water-sufficient to end, once and for all, Hongkong's periodic water shortages the gaping wound in the Shing Mun Valley that is to become Jubilee Dam, even with the rains that fell over the week-end impounded only 60,000,000 gallons, sufficient, if it could be used, to supply Kowloon for ten days.

In rainfall in the Colony been upper part, 11 was decided not to normal, Hongkong would by now have | adopt the conventional practice as te had 100,000,000 gallona of pure, fresh | the time shuttering should! bẹ left in water in addition to the 3,000 million | place before striking, but to carry out

servoirs are expable of storing,

gailons tha Colony's existing re-test to show the minimum time in which shuttering could safely o struck. Concrete cubes were made But rainfall is almost live inches be- and tested and it was found that the low the average of 17's Inches usually tunnel quality concrete at 12 hours recordeil between January 3 and mid-old hat ample strength to withstand May.

the stresses act up in the ring with no support.

This deficiency of a third of the normal rainfall for the first five months of 1930 has had a most serious effect upon the Colony's water supply On the island of Victorin there is now only sufficient water stored to last three months, even with the present restrictions in forme

Accordingly top shattering Was struck after this period and the prac tice greatly accelerated the work, so that by the end of March and before. the rains came, the whole of the tunnel had been Bined. In addition, the tunnel segments had been placed The position on the mainland isnt the inlet end, and the senur pipe, Despite Shing Mun, special valve and stand pipe finished, the apply of water to Kowloon is and everything nude ready to take a sufficient to last only two months, Hood. The lower part of the valve shaft and also been lined and it thus The rainfall recorded over the became possible to proceed with this week-ond was sufficient to saturate lining, and also with the Bahng of the the catchwaters, and add 'n slight, overflow quantity to the storage.

water,

even worst.

MORE RESTRICTIONS?

The absence of rain in consider. abie quantition within the next month may

that

for ther resteletions will have to be imposed on the supply of water to residents of both the island and

mainland.

mean

So far has the work on Jubilee Re-

tunnel, unhampered by

WITHIN TIME LIMIT

By the middle of June it was clear that there was every likelihood that the work on the dam would be sufficiently advanced to permit the impounding of 500,000,000 gallons by the date which had been settled in London-the end of August.

It was equally clear, however, that

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OLD WARRIOR'S LAST VOYAGE TO SHANGHAI

The steamer Minderon saw over a quarter of century's service on the West Australian coast without serious mishap. Then he was sold to

bank and the receding tide left her high and dry, as pictured above. The strain proved too match for the old warrior, and it broke her back. Temporary repairs were effected and last week she arrives In Shanghai, towed there by the tugboat Saucy.

Japanese shipbreakers. On the trip to Japan she ran aground an a sund-

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|HONGKONG LADY VISITOR, WHO ROAMS THE WORLD

Through the veins of Mrs, Beatrice Grey, who has been visiting Hongkong for the past week, courses the blood of generations of adventureus ancestors.

Mrs. Grey, wife of Captain J. R. Grey, Australia yachtsman, surveyor and owners of cocoanut plantations on Tahiti, has for many years obeyed the urge that has taken her to far off and desolate parts of the world.

Can

A Dog Commit

Suicide?

TRUE HONGKONG STORY

she

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Do dogs commit suicide? This is the true story of Maggie, an Aberdeen terrier terrific typhoon almost swamped the servoir advanced that several mean the valve shaft would not be sufficient owned by a European living Western Australia, only superb sea- bera of the European staff have beeny advanced for this. The asphalt given notice that their services will be farminated with at the end of May,ning could not be done in the wet at Happy Valley. thas ending their work after three it would not adhere to damp concrete weather then being experienced, since years instead of the five years re- blocks. It AVAA forred tu in the contracta.

concentrate on the construction of

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A fortnight ago the son skeided therefore to of Maggie's owner rescued a

were made to Government as to the black lining and stairway, till dry of the four storey building in It is understood that representations concrete only and to leave the asphalt, small kitten from the roof desirability of acknowledging the weather set in, the reason for this efforts which have resulted in the departare from the specified manner which they lived. great saving of time and money, and of building the tower being of course which have at the same time sulted in the stall losing their pointments much earlier than ant efpated.

FIGHT AGAINST TIME

re-

ap

to provide Hongkong with water for

How the kitten got on the the coming dry weather and to roof of the building was a mys- juftempt to do away with the restric-tery,

tion in supply which would otherwise be necessary.

The kitten was too young to Shuttering consisting nf steet lap and had to be fed from a The story of the gigantic effort soldiers supporting steel faced wooden small bottle from a child's set made by the Engineers of the Bhing panels was used for this work and of accessories for a doll. Mun Valley scheme to heat the progress was rapid, but even with this rainy season that so far has only partly materialised in told in the accelerative method of construction,

Maggie, with no puppies of her

Annual Report for 1935 of the Re-e end of August saw the valve own, instantly mothered the stray ident Engineer, Mr. Gifford 1. Hull. tower still short by some 20 feet of kitten. In her rough, doggie way, M. Inst. C.E, issued inst week. It the height required for storing the she licked it and cuddled it into states:

desired amount of water..

her.

At the end of 1934 the excavation

In the middle of July it was de-

Silver Gull off Condon, en the manship on the part of Caput Grey and his wife saving the tiny craft.

Tho Silver Gull has been sold 10 Singapore interests trading between the Federated Malay States and the Dutch East Indies.

has now

and

Is

1. Songs Fisher-Ways;

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Capland Musicaux. Punt. Moments Musicaux in C sharp minor. Up.m. A Relay from Daventry. 9 p.m. Nowa Bulletin and An- nouncements (Copyright by Reuter). 9.20 p.m. Cricket: M.C.C. v All-

India. A commentary on the Maich,

from Lord's Cricket Ground.

9.35, p.m. Leslie Hutchinson nt the Plano.

Mrs. Grey, during her South Sea cruises and residence on Tahiti, has met many of the descendants of 1. Blue Moon; 2. You and the the mutlueers from the Bounty Night and the Music; 3. Maybe I'm who still bear the surname Chris Wrong again; 4. Back to those lian-the Bounty's chief officer who | hanpy Days.

cast Lieutenant Bligh (Captain 0.48 p.m. Hawaiian Dince Bligh in the American lim version) | Music. ndrift in an open boat.

Colony Had Record List Of Weddings

If the number of marringes

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for the diversion tunnel and for the cided to take advantage of a period The kitten accopted his canine that are taking place in the pipe trench had been completed, of low flow in the river to place the foster mother and they became Colony are any criterion, a lot 12 metres) and 33 (11.46 metara)..

Some apprehension was felt as to cast iron bulkhead and the concrete greatly attached to cach other.

But bottle feeding did not agres whether the scour and supply pipes stopping behind it. Arrangements for could be laid, the tunnel and lowercarrying out this work hind previous with the kitten and it gradually part of the valve shaft lined with ly been made and it was rapidly weakened. Yesterday it died. concrete and the cast iron segments exyested. Concrete placed at the inlet cad of the tunnel cableway to a teack running from the Maggie was inconsolable,

before the commencement of the rainy

season.

A study of the possibilities showed that it was advisable not to concrete the whole ring of the tunnel but to make sure of conereting the lower half over the full length of the tunnel Brat. Travelling stool shuttering was therefore designed for concreting the lower and upper paris separately.

The work was arranged to proceed .continuously day and night; that is, Boon as n length of shuttering was erected it should be concreted and na soon as the concrete had set, shutter ing should be struck and immediately re-crected,

was taken by

above the tunnol inlet and was from dam along the left bank to a point

there chuted 100 feet down the almost vertical nido of the gorge to a pint- form erected at a level with the crown of the tunnel, where it was re-mixed and shovelled into place through the space left by the emission of the two top cast iron segments of the tunnel lining. Grout pipes were placed ag joints and weak places in the rock and after the concrele stop had set the whole was grouted,

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more people in Hongkong are beginning to believe in the old adage that two can live as cheap- ly as one.

Last year a record number of This morning, Maggie's brok-368 couples, of whom 104 were en body was found on the pave- Chinese, "went up the aisle." ment below the third-floor Lati Each year since the beginning. where her master lived. She jof the depression in 1929, more und had fallen or jumped from the more people have got married, window.

Maggie still lives, but she does not seem to want to get well.

had been reached and thereafter it way 'brought up in the axual manner. Overhanging the tunnel entrance In order to provide in supply to was a large mass of rock, which in Hongkong when the dam was above course of time might have fallen and catchwater level, and before the valve smashed the scour stand pipe, and it shaft was in service, a steel pipe con- was decided to support this and mako trolled by a sluice valve from one of

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matrimony. Since then the figures have Increased as follows:

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8.5

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This menus that either the mixing of the bulkhead. This was accord-carry water through it. The pipe paying $50 each for a plant would be put to work at old ingly done.

and opening. through the rock all licence. In 1934 thirty couples ob times during the night, or a rezort By the end of last year the tongue was so designed that it can readily tained special licences, made to hand mixing.

the gorge had been

The Registry Office in also Across

langer required. This work was proving increasingly popular with The latter alternative was adopted filled and work was in hand on the and effectively be filled in when no for night work, sufficient dry-mixed upstream part of the thrust block completed in the middle of July. marrieds-to-be, the Reglatrar of material being brought down during entire mixer putput was used to bring By the end of July the conditions Marriages performing a record the day for one form Alling as occa- the tongue trench and front part of and programme fald down by the number of 157 ceremonies. This slon demanded. The system worked very well, and by the end of February the thrust block up to the level of Engineers with regard to the early exceeded 40 per cent. of the total the bottom half of the tunnel had been the part previously placed during the impounding of water had been met, weddings in the Colony. Six years and it was possible to close the acour ago only 39 couples chose to be lined from the outlet end to the valve past season, shaft, and a start had been made on chuted from the top of the thrust Administering the Government, Sir

A great deal of concrete had to be valve in the tunnet. The Offeer married away from a church,

(0.8.N., G.A.D.). During 1936; His Excellency the the lining of the upper half,

block over 100 feet above the work. Thomas Southern, gave the slemal to Governor granted seven conces and progress was slower than the close the valve on September 2 at permitting weddings to take place normal on this account, but by thola small inaugurating ceremony held In order that ne time should un-middle of the year the level of the on that day, and the reservoir began at times other than those ordinarily

permitted. nócessarily be lost on the lining of the downstream part of tho thrust block to all.

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