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DUST REMOVAL.
In the year 1871-2 the Removal of the Dust by
Contract having been so unsatisfactorily performed,
led your Committee to consider whether a better
system could not be adopted, and they eventually
decided (with the consent of the Yestry) to collect
and remove the Dust in the year 1872-3 in the
following manner:—
To Hire Horses and Carts at per day.
Appoint and pay Men to collect the Dust.
Appoint Inspectors to see that this Collection
was properly performed.
The Surveyor's approximate estimate of the quantity
of Dust to be removed was 8000 loads. The actual
quantity removed during the four quarters to Lady
Day, 1873, was 8127 loads, and the cost of such
removal, inclusive of staff and incidental expenses,
amounted to £1466 16s. 4d.
In February, 1873, the Yestry advertised for
Tenders for the Dust Removal for the current year,
when tne lowest received was from Mr. Joseph
Parsons (a former Contractor), at the total sum of
£1400 to execute the entire Work; and from Mr.
Edmund Reddin, at 10s. 6d. per day for horses,