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By this arrangement every street has been swept at
least three times a week, and a considerable number
every day.
Temporary Sweeping Gang.—A temporary gang
of sweepers was employed as required, the
wages of which was £48 1s. 5d.
The night gangs remained the same as the
previous year, viz., 22 scavengers and 2 horse
brooms, until the alteration mentioned above. The
number of loads of street sweepings removed was
6,115. The average number of horses employed
was 10 per day, including those with the brooms.
The approximate cost was as follows :—
£ s. d.
Slopmen's wages 785 16 3
Scavengers' 1,781 11 4
„ „ (tempy.gang) 48 1 5
Keep of Horses 337 4 10
Cost of barging slop away 729 11 0
Two new sweeping machines 53 10 0
Brooms for „ „ „ 37 1 6
Scavengers' brooms 50 8 0
£3,823 4 4
GODSON STREET.
The Vestry passed a resolution that this street
be taken over under the New Streets Act, plans