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The fish offal is treated with lime and buried at your Council's
Sewage Farm. In districts where refuse destructors are in use,
this offal is destroyed with the refuse.
The senior office clerk calls on the various fish dealers once a
week and gives a receipt for monies taken.
Some difficulty is found when fish dealers leave the district to get
the pail returned. However, to obviate this, all applicants now
have to make a deposit of 2s. 6d.
No. of fish dealers on the Register 23
No. of pails collected 3125
Amount collected £52 is. 8d.
The whole of the house refuse will in future be deposited at the
Council's Sewage Farm, and will be useful in raising or lightening
the land, after the rough matter has been removed by sorting.
Screened house refuse, ashes, &c., would also be a valuable commodity
to those engaged in the brick industry. Considerable
quantities of screened house refuse are being now brought into the
district for the purpose of brick making.
It will be necessary to make a permanent road to the shoot.
The time is not far distant when I hope a dust destructor will be
in evidence, as judging from the results obtained from the working
of destructors in several districts, this would be an advantage and
enable a very offensive product to be effectually disposed of.
Forty-four complaints were received of non-removal of dust, but
this was due in several cases to the fact that the occupiers were out
at the time of call or that it was inconvenient at the time for removal.
DUST COLLECTION.
New dustbins provided, 186.