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"Servage as applicable to the locality, and
"Vicinity of Victoria, and
for an additional
for an
"water supply connected therewith, such extra supply"
need:
to be also made available in case of
This advertisement embraced
of
for
the extinction of fires?
the
offer of a premium of $400
for
the
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best practical Scheme submitted, and of
$100 for
the second best; but with the
exception of a vague project
Necessary details received
and within
from Mr.
Gardiner of Canton, (and which was not applicable to the project
under consideration)
this advertisement remained unanswered
8.
The Committee
by no means
wanted
to attribute this backwardness to
any
lack of Engineering talent in the Colony, but
to other and various Causes,
a principal
one
being, that the full remunerative occupation
afforded to all practical Engineers by the
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rapid development of the City of Victoria
makes their time too valuable to be devoted
to the
purpose for
the small rewards offered, without the ulterior prospect of profitable
employment connected therewith.
9.
The direct evidence available therefore
to the Committee was confined to that
of
the
previously named witnesses; but that evidence leads irresistibly to the conclusion, that much of the noxious exhalations complained of arises from the faulty Construction Dust bins, and of the public privies and urinals, increased by the fact of
the
these conveniences being in many instances,