View report page

147
DUST.
Table shewing the number of complaints from March in each year:—
1887.8.
1888.9.
1889.90
26 March to
25th April
166
262
272
26 April ,,
25 May
304
415
307
26 May „
25 June
292
396
253
26 June „
25 July
175
226
206
26 July ,,
26 August ,,
25 August
25 Sept
59
80
152
173
137
91
26 Sept. „
25 Oct
83
129
42
26 October,,
25 Nov
69
202
49
26 Nov. „
25 Dec
131
232
84
26 Dec. „
25 Jan
106
276
297
26 Jan. „
25 Feb
88
338
207
26 Feb. ,,
25 March
86
523
128
1639
3324
2073
The number of loads removed, &c., is as follows
Year.
Loads.
Horses,
one day
each.
Average
Loads per
horse per
day.
Cost of
Horses pe
day.
Cost of
r Horse pei
Load.
Wages
per
Load.
Cost of Tip
or Barge
per load.
S.
d.
S.
d.
S.
d.
1886.7
11,031
3,076
3.586
6
0
1
8½
Nil
1887.8
11,791
3,162
3.729
6
0
1
7½
From is. 6d.
for tips, to
2S. gd. for
barging
and
and
1
6
4
9
1
3¼
1888.9
12,319
3,418
3.604
4
9
1
3
1
6
1889.90
14,033
3,829
3.923
4
9
1
2
1
6
1s. 7d.
The Dust is still disposed of by tipping into shoots in the District, for
which the Vestry pay the owners of the ground an average of 1s. 7d. per
load. This is, in my opinion, a wasteful method of disposing of it, as a
considerable quantity of the material thrown away is of value. My last
year's report suggested to the Vestry the desirability of buying seven or
eight acres of land near the river that could be afterwards made available
for wharves.
I estimated that the Vestry could, by the sale of sand and ballast from
the site, and by the saving of the 1s. 7d. per yard charged for filling in,
make a profit of about £2,200 per acre; and, as one year's dust would
about fill one acre, the saving would amount to that sum per annum, or
a rate of nearly l½d. in the £.