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removed to the shoots. These deposits caused much work to
the Sanitary Department, as the Inspectors have to visit the
places frequently even when complaints are not made, and I
have made several personal visits to almost every one of these
localities, especially when they were near houses, as well as
to heaps of burning ballast.
As might have been expected in consequence of the long
winter, the quantity of dust removed this year (March 25th,
1885, to March 25th, 1886,) has been larger than usual, 27,323
loads having been removed, against 24,836 loads in 1884-5.
The cost has also increased in a larger ratio than the loads, as
the Contract price per load for 1885-6, was 2/6 for the C
Division, against 1/10 in 1884-5; 2/3 for the A Division
against 1/9, and 2/- for the B Division against 1/10. The
prices paid depend very much on the distance of the Division
from which the dust is collected, to a shoot. The B Division
adjoining the Marshes and other shoots, the sum paid per load
is the smallest, but the low price was partly the result of a second
tender, the first having been considered to be too high. The
total cost for the removal of the dust and other house refuse
was as follows, viz.:—£3053 2s. 0d. paid to the Contractors,
£747 paid to the men employed by the Board at the rate of
15/- per week each, for assisting the Contractors in removing it
from the houses to the carts, and £104 for the salary of the
Dust Inspector, The Contractors are paid the prices named for
each load of 60 cubic feet removed from the houses, and for the
use of the carts, horses and implements, as well as for one man
to each cart, who assists in the removal of the refuse to the cart,
and who has sole charge of the cart, horse and implements.
The driver and the Board's men are under the immediate
control of the Dust Inspector, who sees that the carts go
through every street in the District once a week, in accordance
with the rota which I have laid down, and also that as many
carts, &c., are provided under the contract as are required under
my weekly orders. These orders are forwarded every week to