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SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
For the Year ending Lady Day, 1894.
Gentlemen,
It is again my privilege to submit for your consideration
my Annual Report (being the eleventh) on the various
works executed in my Department during the year ending Lady-
dav last.
This year has been a very important one as regards local
matters in connection with this Board. In the year 1891 the
contract system for paving works was discontinued, and this
year has been the first in which the whole of the scavenging,
footway cleansing, paving, drainage, and other works have been
carried out by the direct employment of labour by the Board.
In each case satisfactory results have ensued, although the
organisation of the new systems has been of a responsible and
experimental nature: they show improvements altogether on
the old contract work, both financially and as regards the
efficiency of the work dealt with. In having direct control over
the workmen, more prompt action can be obtained in instances
where immediate attention is necessary, and a greater command
over details which are so essential in making an undertaking of
this nature a complete-success, is afforded.
SCAVENGING AND DUSTING DEPARTMENT.
The work of the above Department for this the first year of
the present system has resulted in my being able to report very
satisfactorily in every way as compared with the contract
system, notwithstanding the considerable increase in the wages
ot the men. The horse contract obtained by Mr. S. Taylor, of
Tooley Street, was faithfully carried out, and the cattle in every
respect were of a high class, no complaint having been made
throughout the year; the men as a whole have worked smoothly,
and the facilities for shooting the refuse have been good, the
shoot being in the District and almost central.