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placed in boats and taken away to Southall, under a
contract with Mr. Studds, at 1s. 6½d. per ton, such
amount including the haulage, tonnage, and shoot.
The quantity thus collected from the various
thoroughfares in the Parish during the year was
23,144 loads, being an excess over the former
year, owing to the wet weather during the greater
part of the winter. The maximum number of loads
brought in in one week being 1,061, and the minimum
170, giving a daily average of 75.88 loads.
By canal 24,305 tons of slop, &c., has been boated
away in 686 boats, and some tons shot at open
shoots, 5,507 horses and carts being employed,
averaging daily 18.05, or at the rate of 4.20 loads
per horse per day.
Watering.— During the season, the water vans
were out 130 days, 3,612 horses were employed,
giving an average of 27.77 horses and vans per day.
The quantity of water taken during the season
for road watering and road making purposes, and
the amount paid for the same, was as follows:—
Gallons.
£
s
d.
The Grand Junction Water
Works Co.
20,330,000 @ 8½d.
720
0
5
The West Middlesex Water
Works Co.
3,531,740 @ 9d.
132
8
9
Totals
23,861,740
£852
9
2