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Considerable difficulty continually arises in supervision and
management, owing to the fact of the drivers not being directly the
servants of the Vestry. This matter I have fully reported upon to
your Works Committee, with a view to more efficient management,
and I trust some system can be shortly introduced whereby the
Vestry will have direct control over every man in their service.
In April last, Mr. Gabriel, your Contractor for the disposal of
slop, made application for an increase in the price per load, when
the Vestry increased the price from 3s. to 3s. 3d.
An additional orderly man has been employed for Coventry
Street and the adjoining thoroughfares, also one for St. Martin's
Lane and neighbourhood, in both of which districts this work was
undermanned.
A new street orderly bin has been placed in each of the following
streets:—
Whitehall,
Pall Mall East,
Long Acre (near Mercer Street), and
Oxendon Street.
An orderly bin has been removed from Longs Court, it having
become a nuisance by being used as a receptaclo for house refuse.
This bin has been recently placed in the yard of the Vestry Hall in
place of an old defective brick receptacle.
BALLASTING STREETS.

By special permission of the Vestry I also used as an experiment
granite drippings for ballasting; their general adoption, however,
cannot be recommended, as I find from the fact of the granite having
once passed through a crushing machine the material is so "bruised"
as to quickly grind up under heavy traffic.