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when collected, is barged away or otherwise disposed
of, and in order to facilitate this work of barging,
a portion of the Glengall Wharf (lately acquired by
the Vestry) has been appropriated for the purpose;
thus a large quantity is conveyed direct from the
carts into the barges. The number of barge loads
so removed from this wharf is given below, as also
the total quantity collected within the parish during
the past 12 months. The Vestry undertakes to fill
the barges; the barge owners neither receiving nor
paying any thing for the dust, but the latter pay all
canal and such like dues and charges.
A portion of the dust collected is when
practicable, otherwise disposed of, realizing from
the parties to whom it is sold the sum shewn in the
appended account; a further part also of the collected
dust is disposed of to a contractor who
provides truck accommodation for the same at the
Bricklayers Arms Railway Station, Old Kent Road.
The amount realized by the sale of the dust,
it will be seen, is yearly decreasing, owing to the
diminished demand for it in the local brick yards
surrounding the area of collection. Hence the
necessity of deportation of the material to further