The sixth water supply plan requires Y. 52,000,000 for outlay, With the amount for the fifth expansion scheme 1934-1941 and the special amount appropriated of Y.3,000,000 the total for giving Dairen sufficient water reaches the impressive total of Y.64,300,000.
This three million is for tapping subterranean water and as it is two-year plan and Y. 700000 was used last year there is Y.2,300,000 for this method of ministering to the cleanliness of residents for this year.
To attempt to keep pace with the upward-swinging demand both as to population and industrial development, both of which are tripping merrily ahead and practically out of sight, the sixth programme is being brought into use and overlapping the fifth. Thus the total sum available for 1939 for increasing the supply of water is Y.9,500,000—700,000 from the fifth programme, 6,500,009 from the sixth and 2,300,000 from the well-digging fund.
The local population is now considerably heartened as it is predicted through the same newspapers that by the end of July the water famine will have ended when the heavens open and rain pours into the reservoirs in that summer month.
Then the unwashed will be able to remove the grime of mantis and feel comparatively human again and not potentialities for a land tax, whisky in one part of a house but not in another. Can you beat it?
Perhaps the cream of the joke is that the Army and Navy Stores is notoriously the most respectable establishment in London. The notion that its customers cannot be trusted not to make beasts of themselves if allowed to drink whisky in both their restaurants is even more fantastic than the regulation itself. the Neat
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