}
!
}
7.
0
95
showing
an estimated saving of $11,000 per annum on the
whole of the scavenging expense.
4. His Excellency therefore submits that he should receive authority to build two steam Lighters in the
Estimates for 1909.
5. The Lighters estimated at a cost of $25000 each above named and shown on the drawing submitted to
us have the following proposed dimens ons.
Length over all.....
Beam.
Depth..
80 It.
.13 ft.
8 ft.
To have a small They are proposed to be built of wood. engine and boiler of a size suitable for a Launch and to have side doors for allowing therefuse to escape the same being contained in two triangular chambers formed by an internal fore and aft erection extending from the bilge to
the deck of the Lighter.
6. The experience to which His Excellency refers at New York is only a small part of the similar experience which exists, and mod of the large Cities in England and
Scotland which have any access to the sea are now disposing
of their sewage by the system of loading it into st sam hopper vessals which carry it out to sea and eject it by gravity in afew moments when sufficiently far from the
land. This system applies in London, Liverpool,
Glasgow, Middlesboro and
eat many other pânces;
the experience therefore from which His Excellency may be
advised is very wide and the results are very satisfactory
and economical in proportion to the complete riddance of
the sewage which results.
#
į
Manchester
and
It ishot quite clear whetherthe vessels required
for Hong Kong are to be built only for sludge from severs
But we do not
or refuse from scavenging or for both.
ཡ ེའམ
hesitate