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REMOVAL OF DUST AND HOUSE REFUSE,
DUST BARGING, &c.
The quantity of dust collected during the
past year ending Lady-day, 1890 - 27,153 loads.
Do. do. 1889 - 24,866 „
Increase on the previous year 2,287 „
Of the above quantity 10,744½ loads were removed by
Messrs. Smeed, Dean, & Co., under their Barging Contract,
the remainder being delivered at private shoots in various
parts of the Parish at agreed prices.
The dust barging has been carried out at the rate of
2s. 8d. per dust-cart load for the first three months, and
2s. 3d. per dust-cart load for the last nine months.
Your Committee with the view of reducing as much as
possible the heavy cost of this Barging Work 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.