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Reply of Committee. Your Surveyor having thoroughly
anticipated the views of your Committee, they endorse his
remarks made under this head, without further comment:—
The 2nd Section of the Surveyor's Report next deals
exhaustively with the presumed eligibility of the site in
question, for the proposed works, as follows:—
"Secondly. 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 apparent, 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 of this refuse in its progress, and
thus reduce this haulage by nearly one half, is a matter of
much importance in relation to cost.
"This brings me to the consideration of the eligibility
of the site in question to accomplish this desired economy.
This site it would appear, is almost the only remaining one
in the neighbourhood which possesses the facility of