wing to the lack of efficiency in the previous administration of the Conservancy and Dyke Bureau of Hupeh Province, the National Economic Council was requested.in November 1932 to: take over this work with a view to securing positive improvements. Through its Kianghan Office, "the Hydraulic Engineering Bureau completed over one hundred repairs within four id organised a system of tion of the conditions lykes of adequate pre-[paration in cases of emergency.
in comparison with the former'
Hupeh, the activities li's Hupeh Dyke Fund Committee have met ina short time with Jencouraging success. A surplus of receipts over expenditure has been obtained which could be utilised for the construction of, more permanent hydvaulie engineering: work in the Province, Part of the surplus has already been used to enable the ten-year old Kinshui, Reclamation Project to be carried out. The Kinshui is a tributary tze, into which it flows In summer time, the Yangtze rises hhere some 50 fect above its winter level, causing its tributaries, particularly the Kinshui, to rise It'and flooding the Jand. In taking up this Tong delayed project, the Bureau will preserve many hundred thousand mow of land for agricultural purposes.
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