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One man was constantly employed at the Vestry's yard
issuing instructions to the workmen, directing the loading and
unloading of carts, &c.; his wages for the year amounted to
£54 15s. 6d.
SEWERS WORK.
The following work, at the cost stated, has been executed by
the Contractors during the past year:—
Watson's Place.—245 feet lineal 12 inch pipe sewer and 36 feet
9 inch ditto, house-connections made and gulleys reconstructed
£87 7s. 7d.
Private Drain Work.—Seventy-four new house drains (from Sewer
to line of frontage), reconstructions, openings to unstop
sewers, &c. £205 17s. 5d.
The sewers in the following localities are in a very
unsatisfactory condition, and should be re-constructed as speedily
as possible —
Calvert Street
* Livermere Road
Plough Yard
* Bad fall, owing to the shallowness of the main line sewer in Queen's Road.
Four flushers, with four labourers and watchmen, on average
were employed in re-constructing, repairing, cleansing, &c., the
sewers and gulleys in the Parish; their wages for the year
amounted to £494 lis. 10|d.
Two men have been constantly employed (latterly three)
cleansing the Parish urinals (including Sundays and holidays in
the early morning) ; their wages for the year amounted to
£119 lis. 4§d.
The urinals were painted by the Vestry's workmen in the
autumn, at a cost of £39 15s. 4|d. for labour and £7 0s. 9d. for
brushes, paint, &c.