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In addition to the quantity barged away, about 2,000
loads of road refuse has been delivered to private shoots in
the remote parts of the Parish.
SNOW REMOVAL.
During the past Winter, which was somewhat exceptionally
severe, unusually heavy snow-storms visited the metropolis.
Special means had to be adopted to ensure its speedy
removal as far as practicable. The ordinary staff of the
Vestry, roadmen, carmen, dust drivers, dust collectors,
masons' labourers, and masons—which latter were, for the
time being utilized as foremen or gangers—were pressed into
the service, and were further supplemented by extra men, of the
"unemployed" class, varying from 100 to 200 each day,
these added to the Vestry staff numbered between 400 and
500 men daily upon the work. All the vans, slop and material
carts, dust carts, and also hired carts were pressed into the
service, thousands of loads of snow being so removed, and, as
in former years the available open spaces in the Parish were
used as shoots for the temporary deposit of the snow: the
slop tanks at Glengall Wharf also were brought into requisition,
and as the Surveyor reported at the time, had there
been a continuance of snow-falls there would have been no
alternative but to give up carting and merely keep the footways
as clear as possible unless an enormous expenditure were
permitted for the adoption of distant carting.
PARLIAMENTARY DEPOSITATIONS.
Three schemes were deposited in November last for the
consideration of Parliament, as follows:—