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WORKS DEPARTMENT.
Report relative to the works of Dusting,
Slopping, Watering, Carting Road Materials, Smith's
Work, and Cleansing of the Public Highways, for the
year ending Lady-day, 1883.
Dusting.— The number of loads collected has
been 18,262, and 3,819 horses employed in doing the
work, the daily average number of loads being
60'27 or 4*78 loads per horse per working day.
From the before-mentioned number of loads brought
on to the Wharves, the following miscellaneous
materials have been abstracted, viz.:—34 tons of
coals, 481 cart loads and boat loads of hard core,
2,206£ tons of garbage or soft core, 55 tons of bones,
52 tons of rags, 34 tons 14 cwt. of old iron, 5 tons
7 cwt. and 1 qr. of various metals, 16 tons 10 cwt.
of white glass, and 59 tons of black glass. There
has been manufactured and sold 13,895 chaldrons of
ashes, and 6,763^ chaldrons of breeze; of this quantity
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