"Administration Ths ts the sixth end penultimate article of the series describing progress: Being. achieved by the Kwanget Pro-Sinctat "Goverament..'The writer here deals with public nitties and the progress made by research institutions.
Electricity in Kwangsi is supplied by. {wo concerns, one commercial and the other official with Wuchow, Liuchow, Lungchow, Kwelling and Kwelhien supplied by the power plants owned by the provincial government.
"The head office of the Provincial Electric Supply Enterprice isin Wuchow. It is empowered to direct and. control all other power tations in the province so that while Nanning has the largest electric power station owned by private commer-lal enterprise, the engineer is apment. pointed by the Provincial Govern-
The power station in" Wuchow can generate 1,000 kw, with crude all engines being used, "There are smaller power plants which supply Liuchow, Lungchow, Kwelshun and other towns where old machines of smaller capacity displaced from Wuchow are used. All the engineers are appointed by the government bhut undoubtedly it would be more economical to have engineers, ma chinery, and electrical—materials Prepared and distributed within the province as a whole by a central Office, Ba-Bou near the Fu-Ho-Pung mining district have a new station erected and this will also be under the direction of the Electric Power Supply Head Office.
Water Supply In the larger towns like Kwelling. there Is a city engineering depart: ment directly under the control of the Provincial Government. Wuchow used to have an Engineering Department and the roads and parke Dullt by the Department are pleasant and clean but the most import fant work achieved is the water supply, which like the electricity generating station, its central office has the power to control other water works in the province.
The source of the water supply in Wuchow comes from Kwelklang (also called Fu-Ho) and the works situated on Po-shan, 90 ft. (above the round 50 that no tower is needed and only about $800.000 '(Kwangsi money) had to be spent fon this project. The coagulating basin of baffle type has a capacity of 2,180 cubic meters. The Altra tion basin has atx beds with total murtace of 216 eq. metres, Wath water for the titration beds is sup piled from an elevated storage tank Hin, above the ize bain with a eapeelty' of 222 cum. There are alens water' reservoirs, each with a volume of 1,00 cubic metres, Six. tons of water' per minute or 8640 fons per day can be aupplled fom the Intake pump of 1890 lip. but at present there are only 1,200 families using this water and the Consumption sani. about 1.200 rmetrie tons per day, which ig about Gne_seventh of the full load' intake capacity. "Water meters are. install-Sdrin exch subscribers house with the charge is $20 Kwongsl_ money per metric ton, oer Reinrn for Capltat 'The monthly revenue is about $8,000 which is poor return for the money originally' spent on it, The engineers, however, ire not to be blamed for such an unnecessarily extensive. plan since completion business in Wuchow hi unexpectedly declined and the population decreased from 100,000 to 80,000, Besides, the city ts surround~ with water' so that It is easy for the people to get water and only the rich prefer to use the city water.
works but the supply fs not anous!
Nanning there is, also, 8 water The aviation school in Liuchow has water supply tower which can be Jéeen a8 soon as Liuchow 1s reached bhut it only supplies the school, sion romed under the awplees of Provincial Economic Commis plovincal Government, consist the' provincial commissiones ce' members anda. number of experts with the provincial cha camer, "he. prudent of the Gomrane Te ihe hugnst authority toe tivestghuing any eeonomeal (erate the, provnea and problem canoe couatustion frst submitted to" the" Commission for inveriaton ndurral rvearch lis on experlment sation which fe snow Duna stress on chemical research, both and organic, though it als with many subjects, euch per making, mai alysis of mineral samples, ete, station Is now organizing the mechfanical. section which will specialize in. making pumps and gas engines. When we were there, the furnaces for melting iron and) other metals had already arrived. The future of this organization is a big one and it receives great attention from the Provincial Government, Engineering work in Kwangsi studied and worked out by the De partment of Engineering of the [Provincia Government and is divi ed into the communication and the seethe rerles will be concluded next week
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