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TO THE
VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF PADD1NGT0N.
Works Department,
21 st June, L881.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit the annual report relative
to the works of Dusting, Slopping, Watering, and
Carting Materials, Smiths' work and general repairs
in connection with this Department for the year
ending Lady-day, 1881.
Dusting.— This work during the last two years
has considerably increased owing to the number of
new houses erected on the north-west portion of the
parish. During the past year 3,542 horses have
been engaged in dusting, giving a daily average of
1242, the total number of loads collected being
17,842, or a daily average of 62.60 loads per
working day, or 5.04 loads per horse per day.
From this quantity collected in the rough, 15,984½
chaldrons of ashes, 9,613½ chaldrons of breeze, 14
tons of coals, 544 loads of hard core, 1,686½ tons of