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Cart Shed— Provision is made for 18 vans after deducting the
spaces occupied by the staircases to the shelter ;
it is open upon the front facing the wharf, the
first floor being carried upon 4 cast iron columns
with steel joists between the columns and
across the shed, the inside measurements are
70 ft. by 21 ft.
Shelter— This, as before stated, is above the cart shed and
occupies the whole of the first floor, the various
rooms are formed as cubicles with boarded
partitions 7 ft. high, and gives the following
accommodation:—kitchen, scullery, bath room
with hot and cold water supply, day room,
3 double bedrooms, 2 single bedrooms.
The cost of the shelter was £484 14s. 1d. to which must be added the furnishing,
amounting to £63 4s. 5d.
The paving works so far as the wharf is completed have been executed by the Vestry
employees, the setts used being those obtained from Mr. W. Wilson, of Kilsyth, N.B.
Following the acceptance of the report of the Committee in reference to the Dust
Destructor, my plans for the same were prepared as speedily as possible, and upon the 1st
October last, the tender of Messrs. Knight & Son, Tottenham, N., was accepted for the
erection of the Chimney Shaft, amounting to £2428 3s. The work was commenced on the
27th October; the foundation of the shaft has been taken down to the ballast formation; it is
30 ft. square, and the contract provided for excavating to a depth of 25 ft. below the coping
of the dock, but upon excavating to that depth it was found necessary to go deeper, an
average of 2 ft. all over the bottom ; the foundation consists of cement concrete mixed
in the proportion of 7 of ballast and sand to 1 of cement, the full size of the excavation
and ten feet in thickness; upon this the brickwork commences 24 ft. square with regular