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Wages paid, £389 13s. 1d., less the sum of
£137 2s. 9d., received back from the Highway
Department for pickaxe sharpening, &c.
Harness Maker,- Including all the general repairs
of 70 sets of harness, and the making of six sets of
new during the year. Wages paid, £118 6s. 3d.
Wheelwrights. —This includes the requisite repairs
and painting of the 34 water vans, 7 water carts, 5
dust wagons and 12 carts, 13 slop wagons and 22 slop
carts, and 23 material carts, and other necessary
miscellaneous works required from time to time on
the slop tank and wharves. Wages paid, £214 10s.
10 ½d.
Public Street Cleaning.—As described in previous
reports, the work is carried out by gangs of men, and
whenever practicable, by the use of horse sweeping
and scraping machines, and in some of the principal
thoroughfares by the employment of Street Orderly
Boys to collect the horse droppings, depositing the
same in sunken boxes. The length of streets being
upwards of 43 miles. The greater portion of the main
and other roads are swept daily, and the remainder
two or three times weekly.
It is found requisite periodically, and in certain
states of the weather, to send out water-vans to well