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Number of
Horses
employed, &c
The estimated requirements of Plant, Horses,
&c., as given at page 21 of the last Annual Report,
has been closely verified in the result. The number
of Horses required for summer work was estimated
at from fifty-five to sixty; the number so occupied
during the past season averaged from fifty to fiftyfive.
As additional Roads are added to the Vestry's
control this number of Horses must be somewhat
increased for road-watering purposes, as also to
provide for contingencies, such as illness of horses,
&c.
Difference of
Plant required
in wet and
dry weather
and Summer
and Winter
Seasons.
In order to meet the difference of the number of
horses required for use during the dry days of the
summer season, as compared with the wet days, (when
less are required,) and also to meet a like difference in
the plant required in the summer and winter seasons,
as was shewn in the last Annual Report, page 26, and
to avoid the necessity of disposing of the surplusage of
horses which necessarily would occur, it was arranged
by the Surveyor to utilize this surplus as far as possible
by executing Incidental Works, such as minor "New
Streets Works," "Road Improvements," the carting
away the soil from Peckham Rye Pond, and carting
materials on to the roads from the Vestry Wharves
and the railway stations, all of which have been so far
Arrangements
for use of
surplus Horses
&c.