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the Council for the drainage of 331 houses and shops,
9 factories, 7 schools, 6 stables, 2 churches, 2 blocks of
flats, 1 railway station, 1 exhibition ground, and 1
disinfecting station.
The drains are laid in accordance with the deposited
plan, and in every case the Drainage Inspector
tests the pipes before they are covered in. During the
year, the Council's workmen have laid and connected
97 drains to the sewers and unstopped 10 drains, at
the expense of the owners of the premises to which the
drain belongs.
The amount deposited to meet the cost of same
was £816 5s. 0d., paid in from time to time to the
Borough Accountant, and with the balance left in
hand on the 31st March, 1906, viz., £127 0s. 3d.,
amounted to £943 5s. 3d. The actual cost of the
work carried out was £759 19s. 5d., the surplus
amounting to £126 17s. 10d., which, after being reported
to the Finance Committee, was returned to
the respective depositors, leaving a balance of £56
8s. 0d., being mostly in respect of uncompleted works.
ROAD WATERING.
The amount of water used for this purpose was
27,163,000 gallons, and cost £784 1s. 6d., this quantity
was distributed by 62,069 separate van loads in 184
days. The average quantity held by each van is 412
gallons when full. The water is measured by meter
at the standposts, of which there are 50 within the
Borough. The meters and standposts are rented from
the Water Board at an annual charge of £2 2s. 0d. each.
Owing to the dry summer, 4,515,000 more gallons
of water were used than in the same period of
1905-6.