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INVENTORY OF PLANT, MACHINERY, AND LIVE STOCK
TAKEN APRIL, 1890.
Live Stock—14 horses, 1 pony.
Machinery-1 10-ton steam roller and tools, purchased about eleven years
ago at a cost of £400; 4 horse sweeping machines, 3 sanding
machines, 2 road scrapers and 1 chaff cutting machine, 1 weighing
machine and weights, 1 gas engine with fittings, 1 screw jack.
Plant—1 light trap, 2 two-wheel water carts, 19 four-wheel water vans, 19
two-wheel slop carts, 10 shoot carts, 1 spring cart, 1 stable barrow,
14 dust carts, 1 gulley cart, 2 two-wheel mason's trucks, 2 sewer
trolleys, 1 lifting jack, 1 set shear legs, 2 jack rolls, 24 lanterns for
watching; 1 asphalte cauldron, 1 tar cauldron, 1 hand roller (2 cwt.),
1 hand roller (f cwt.), 1 hand roller (10 cwt.), 1 set horse slings,
flushing hose and hydrants, 4 sets rotary brooms, 1 stone bus, 1 set
drain rods.
Tools—160 scrapers, 12 dust ladders, 60 slop scoops, 8 forks, 16 dust
baskets, 1 portable forge, 2 anvils, 27 wheelbarrows, 10 sieves, 12
sledge hammers, 3 axes, 2 hand saws, 40 stone hammers.
Stores—Crowbars, road-wedges, timber for wheelwright and for trenches,
new brooms, shovels, picks, cotton waste, soap, rope, hose, grease,
disinfectants, oil, white lead, tar, 10 ton asphalte, 9 barrels bitumen,
½ cwt. sulphur, 3 pairs of sewer boots, 13 lamp columns, 11 lanterns,
2½ gross disinfecting powder, 12 grafting tools, 6 guard posts, 35
gulley grates, 14 cart hose, 28 nose bags, 1 horse cloth, iron and
steel for shoeing, Ac. (sundry), 2 ladders, 9 manhole covers and pans,
nails, bolts, &c., 12 galvanized iron pails, 17 pick shafts, 11 picks,
12 punners, 6 disinfecting pots, 13 rakes, 2 mason's hammers, 36
squeegees.
Sundries—Notice boards, trestles, poles, &c., for protection of works in
progress.
CONCLUSION.
In concluding this report, I desire to call the special attention of the
members of the Vestry to the following matters already referred to.
1. The rapid increase of the Parish, which is shewn more especially by
the number of estates that are being laid out, the length of new sewers
laid, and the unusual quantity of new buildings.
2 The great economy to be effected with respect to the collection and
disposal of dust. This matter is more fully reported on m my report or
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3 The advantage to be gained by the Vestry purchasing as many horses
as the new stables will accomodate, instead of continually hiring.