NEA
Enclosure
139
The Surveyor General to the Honre The Colonial Secretary
Sir,
Public Works Department
7 January 1884.
...the most necessary improvements in connexion with Sanitary reform in this Colony will be the adoption of a furnace for consuming and rendering innocuous the 841 ton of solid filth and dry refuse removed every morning by the Scavenging Contractor from the public dust-bins and private tenements of the City and carried to Belcher's...
I. H. Marsh, C.M.G.
Colonial Secretary