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to the
VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF PADDINGTON.
Works Department,
18th June, 1880.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit the annual report relative
to this department, comprising Dusting, Slopping,
Watering, and Carting Materials.
It is now four years since the Vestry commenced
to do its own dusting, and during the last two years
the additional works of slopping, watering, and carting
have also been carried out by the Parish, the results
demonstrating in a very marked manner that under
existing arrangements far greater efficiency has been
attained than was the case when the several works
were performed by contractors.
Dusting.—Owing to the continuous wet weather
last year the brickmakers were unable to manufacture
their usual quantity of bricks, consequently a
very large supply of ashes and breeze remained on
their hands and available for this season's make,