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Firstly. As to the necessity for the Establishment of a
Depot for Plant and Scavenging purposes, in the Southern
portion of the Parish. Such necessity has for a long time
been in the mind of the several Committees who have had
charge of this department, and which, under conditions, I
am inclined to recommend. The quantity of Road debris,
and also House dust is yearly increasing, and at the present
time has assumed very large dimensions, entailing a great
annual expenditure for its collection and removal. The idea
of a Mid or Semi-central Depôt to arrest the Southern
portion of this collection on its present transit down to the
Glengall Road Depôt, is therefore in my judgment worthy
of consideration.
2ndly. As to the eligibility of the site in question for
the purpose proposed. It may be necessary to inform the
Vestry of the present system of deporting the material from
its sources of Collection, to its destination for removal from
the Parish. At present, (unless by taking advantage of
incidentally offered Shoots adjacent to such points of collection,
which are few, and gradually lessening in number), the
whole of the Slop and Dust Refuse of the Parish has to be
carted to the Glengall Wharf Canal Depôt. The Slop is
there at once delivered into Barges, and the Dust also,
partly in its crude or collected state, or after having been
dealt with, by the recently adopted process of sifting and
separating, is then disposed of, principally by Barge. It will
therefore be apparant, that the cost of Carting from the
extreme Southern part of the parish down to the Glengall
Wharf, (a distance of about 4 miles), forms a considerable
item in the Total cost of these collected residuals, and it
goes almost without saying that, to intercept a portion even