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WORKS DEPARTMENT.
Dusting.—The problem of how to dispose of the
enormous quantity of ashes and breeze increases
yearly; the sales have been getting from bad to worse
for the past three or four years; in fact, at the
present time it is quite impossible to sell, and I am
compelled to boat the materials away and deposit
them in the field at Alperton, and at a great expense.
The continued depression in the building trade, and
the large quantities of bricks already made and in the
fields, and for which the manufacturers are unable to
find a market will in a great measure induce them not
to purchase materials for some considerable time.
The ash trade is so bad that Contractors are giving
the dust away, and in some cases they are compelled
to pay a large sum per boat-load to have it removed
from their wharves in the rough.
The question of burning the refuse by destructors,
as a means of disposing of the dust, must soon be
seriously considered by the Vestry. The adjoining
Parish of Kensington, finding the difficulty in obtaining
shoots and the enormous expense attending the
same, have at last been compelled to grapple with
Difficulty of
disposing of
Ashes and
Breeze.
Burning
Refuse.