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In July last I called the attention of the Vestry to the fact that the number, except for
the area supplied by the Kent Water Company, required augmenting, as a great deal of
time is wasted on account of the long distance to travel to or from the district and the
waiting for turn at the post, but, owing to the shortness of supply and the deficiency of the
pressure in the mains, the Vestry hesitated to order the erection of additional ones. If
the work of watering the streets is to be carried out in an efficient manner—and each
summer the public are more and more expecting to have the roads thoroughly watered—the
additional posts must be erected, as I find it is impossible, owing to the lowering of the level
of the subsoil water, to hope for any adequate supply from the various wells, and oven
should that be again raised, the operation of hand pumping the water is more expensive
than obtaining it from the Water Companies.
The total cost of the street watering amounted to £393 8s. 7d., and is divided as
follows:—
Maintenance—
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
Standposts.
Tradesmen's a/c
9
17
10
Removing Post, Silwood Street
8
1
0
Vestry Employees
0
10
5
18
9
3
Pumps.
Tradesmen's a/c
7
1
8
Vestry Employees
1
18
2
8
19
10
27
9
1
Horse Hire and Drivers
217
11
2
Labour Pumpers
11
8
4
Water from Posts and Rents
Cnronortion)
97
0
0
\ 1 / A. V/ * * V /
Kent Company (proportion)
40
0
0
£393
8
7