View report page

60
up to 5.30 p.m. all the year round, with half an hour for breakfast,
i.e., 8 to 8.30, and one hour for dinner, i.e., 1 to 2 p.m.,
except on Saturdays, when work will cease at I o'clock.
Stablemen. To attend in the yard as required by the
Superintendent.
Workmen detected leaving off work before the regulation
hour will be liable to be discharged.
By Order,
THOMAS EDWARD JONES,
Clerk to the Board.
The following alterations by casualties, sale and purchase
of live stock, have taken place during the year:—
Three horses sold, sprained tendons; one horse sold,
lame in shoulder; one horse sold, dropped soles; one
horse sold, lame in the shoulder.
Seven horses have been purchased during the year
at a cost of ^455, being an average of £65 per horse.
The total number of horses now in the Board stables
is 55 cart horses and 3 nag horses.
This shows an increase of two cart horses and
decrease of one nag horse as compared with last year.
The following is the total consumption of fodder for
the year:—
Oats 1055¾ Quarters.
Beans 2 8¾ ,,
Bran 478¾ ,,
Linseed 21/8 ,,
Clover 86323/36 Loads.
Hay 532/3 ,,
Straw 13517/18 ,,
Mixture 3011/36 ,,
The total cost of the above supply was £2105 19s. 4d.
being an average of 14s. 6^d. per week for each horse, or
is. 1½d. per horse per week less than last year.
The following statement shews machinery, stock, &c.,
for use in this department:—