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The whole of the trees are now maintained by
the Vestry. Only 2 trees required replacing with
new.
CLEANSING OF STREETS.
The sweeping of the streets was carried out as
follows Two gangs each consisting of 6 men with
ganger, and two machine brooms were employed to
sweep each main road in the Parish every night,
and the remainder of the streets were swept not less
than three times a week, and a considerable number
every day, by 2 gangs of sweepers consisting of 8
men each including ganger, and one machine broom.
The whole of the day sweepers were also employed
on Sunday morning generally clearing up the streets;
the market streets were also cleared at mid-day.
Temporary Sweeping Gang.—A temporary gang
of sweepers was employed as required, the wages
of which was £139 13s. 6d.
The number of loads of street sweepings removed
was 7,025 being an increase of 910 loads or an
average increase of 17 loads per week. The average
number of horses employed was 11-27 per day?
including those with the brooms.