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WORKS DEPARTMENT.
Report relative to the works of Dusting,
Watering, Carting Roadway Materials, Smith's
Work, and Cleansing the Public Highways, for the
year ending Lady-day, 1884.
Dusting.— The number of loads collected has
been 19,029, and 4,004 horses employed in the
work, the daily average number of loads being
61.78 or 4.75 loads per horse per working day.
The following quantities of miscellaneous materials
have been abstracted from the before-mentioned
number of loads, viz.:—36 tons 10 cwt.
of coals, 595 cartloads of hard core, 143 boat
loads or 2,627¼ tons of garbage or soft core, 45
tons 17 cwt. of bones, 52 tons of rags, 54 tons 9 cwt.
of old iron, 5 tons 8 cwt. of various metals, 14
tons 9 cwt. of white glass, and 48 tons of black
glass. There has been sorted and sold 14,995
chaldrons of ashes, and 6,945 chaldrons of breeze,
of this quantity 10,794 chaldrons of ashes, and