In conclusion, he referred to a bold 1b and original project which is now being carried out in Macao, whereby water will be obtained {rom the West River during the three or four months that it is fresh, and then sored ina reservoir for uso during the eight or nine months when the river Is brackish, The reservoir for this project was formed by throwing an embankment round some ninety eres of the harbour.
Me. Pearson's address was followed by a series of cinematograph pictures which showed the various processes adopted by the water undertakings which supplied Shanghai, including the purifeation and pumping of the water. Special interest was attached to some seenes depicting the washing of a rapid gravity Miter.
Upon Mr, Pearson's thanking his audience for the patience it had displayed in listening to his talk a vole of thanks was passed and his permission to Include the address in the Fecords of the local branch of. the society was obtained, 'About thirty members of the Engineering Society of China, headed by their president, Mr. J.' Haynes Wilson, visited the offices and station of the' Great Northern Telegraph Company, 34 Avenue Edward VII, November 21,
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