Discussion

The President, proposing a vote of thanks to the Authors and to Mr Weir, said that the Papers dealt with subjects which, from one point of view, were indeed diverse—the concentrated population in the small island of Hong Kong, and the need for water there for domestic purposes, compared with the vast territory of Tanganyika, with the many comparatively small supplies required, largely for agricultural purposes. Both Authors, however, had stressed the importance of one feature, namely, the problem of increasing the water-supply to meet the increasing demands of the population, which was growing both in numbers and in standards of requirement. The President felt that those problems must exist in most parts of the world, and certainly in many of the colonies, and he hoped that the Papers would stimulate thought on long-term policy and even on short-term policy for meeting that demand.