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84 BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
per horse per day. The maximum number of loads
brought in in one week was 910, and the minimum
212.
The expenses paid—collecting, £2,171 13s. 9d.;
loading boats, £371 7s. l½d.; unloading boats at
Southall, £1,932 3s. 2d.; haulage, £848 17s. Od.;
tonnage dues, £939 15s. l1d. Number of boats sent
away, 822, equalling 29,103 tons.
Road Watering.
During the season the water vans were out 135
days; 4,537 horses were employed, giving an average
of 33.6 horses and vans per day; the quantity of
water used, during the season for road watering and
road making purposes being as follows:—
Grand Junction Water Company, 23,408,000, gals.
at 6½d per 1,000 gals. £633 19 4
West Middlesex Water Company,
6,022,850 gals, at 7½d. per 1,000 gals. £213 6 2
Less 7½ per cent rebate 16 0 0
197 6 2
£831 5 6
On the mains of the Grand Junction Water Company
there are 44 standposts, and 13 on the West
Middlesex Water Company, total 57, each post being
fitted with a meter, the indices of which are read
fortnightly during the watering season, from 1st
March to 30th November.