and Water-Sewage Nanking, June 3, A three-year programme for the construction of a water-sewage system, at an estimated minimum cost of '$5,000,000, was outlined by Mr. Sung Hsi-shan, director of the ouphe works department of the Nanking municipal government, thie morning. 'The municipal authorities, he said, also proposed to build parks and' boulevards along the banks of the Chinghhual River, the capital's gayest spot.
In the current year, he said, the yuunielpal government intended to lay sewage pipes {rom Chu Chiao Tung Shul "Kwan, along. the two banks of the Chinghual, and along the roads constructed this year. The second year's programme included the laying of iron pipes connecting the sewage pipes with the Yangtze and the erection of water pumps Han Hsi Men. The third year would witness the laying of sewage pipes for -all the newly-constructed main roads.
For the completion of the proposed sewage system in the South City, which constituted the main cart of the programme, the *cost, Mr. Sung said, "would be about. $5,683,088, of which $1,590,000 would be used' for sewage pipes and pumps. It had been decided by the Sino-Netherlands Boxer Fund Commission to appropriate 75 per cent. of the latter ex: purchase of land. Another $4,000,000 would be used for laying sewage pipes along the new roads to be constructed—Reuter.
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