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The number of loads barged away is 3932 in excess of
last year.
Your Committee with the view of reducing as much as
possible the heavy cost of this Barging Work (especially
that of the House Dust and Refuse), have taken every opportunity
afforded them to deliver Dust, &c., to any one who
could within the district of such collection make use of the
same, without detriment to the health of the locality where so
deposited, thus not only reducing the quantity barged
away, but also saving of miles of Cartage from the
respective Districts of Collection to the wharf; and
in furtherance of this desire to reduce the very large and
increasing cost of disposing of the Dust Refuse before referred
to, your Committee have been for some time (and now
are) engaged in making experiments and arrangements, by
which they hope eventually very materially to further decrease
the cost of this Department.
The dust barging has been earried out by Messrs.
Smeed, Dean, & Co., at the rate of 3s. per dust-cart load
for the first three months, and 2s. 8d. per dust-cart load for
the last nine months.
For the convenience and information of the Parishioners,
your Committee caused a house to house distribution of
Dust Cards to be made, informing the Public of the special
days of Collection from their respective localities, and certain!
suggestions made as to the consuming of such portion of the
house refuse which is burnable, and thus contribute to
effect a saving in this work, and conduce to a reduction of
the rates.