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DUST REMOVAL.
The removal of the Dust under the usual system of
contracting by a lump sum having, for several years
past, caused much inconvenience and dissatisfaction,
and the sum which was demanded by tender for the
year 1876-7 being so much in excess of that of previous
years, your Committee resolved after much consideration
to recommend the Vestry to take this work
into their own hands, allowing the current contract to
continue for six weeks in order to give time for the
purchase of the necessary plant, &c.
This recommendation having been adopted by the
Yestry, stabling for twelve Horses has been erected
at the Vestry's Depot, Park Road Wharf; twelve
Horses, Harness, Dust Carts, and other necessary
appliances have been purchased, and at the time of
compiling this Report, your Committee have the work
well in hand; and, although at first (from the great
accumulation of Dust in the Parish, the default of
the former system), which had at once to be removed,
the new system may not appear to be so complete
as could be desired, nevertheless your Committee have
full confidence in the ultimate success of the experiment
and that it will prove satisfactory to the Ratepayers
at large.