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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.

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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

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