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Fodder.—The Fodder account amounts to £832 11s. 6d.,
being an average of 15s. 11d. per horse per week, an increase
from last year of 9d. per horse per week.
The increase in the net expenditure for the past year is due to
several causes. Two horses were purchased for £118; the Jetty
was repaired at a cost of £138; there is an increase in the cost of
Fodder of £50, and in the cost of Dust Sifting of £80. The dry
season of 1889 accounts for an increase in the cost of horse hire
for watering of about £120, and the strike of the bargeman for
the item of £51 for the removal of rough dust, and a decrease of
the income from the sifted dust. There is a decrease of £55 in
the amount received for street sweepings, and a sum of £28 has
been expended in getting rid of the wet slop in the Winter months.
On the other hand the item of £372 for depreciation of the stock
is no longer charged to the expenditure, the original outlay
having been now written off, and all repairs and renewals charged
against the several years in which the outlay was incurred.