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"Servage as applicable to the leity, and

"Vicinity of Victoria, and

for an additional

for an

"water supply connected there with, such extin

« supply"

need:

to be also made available in case or

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 withint

from Mex

Gardiner of Cantow, (and which was not applicable to the project

under consideration)

this advertisement remained unanswered

8.

The Dommittee

by

no means

want

attribute this backwardness to

any

of Engineering talent in the toolony, but

to other and various Causes, a

principal

one

being, that the full remunerative oce

ocenpation

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 confined to that

of

the

previously named witnesses; but that evidence leads irresistibly to the conclusion, that much of the noxious eschalations complained of arises from the faulty Construction Dust bins, and of the public privies and urinals, increased by the fact of the site of

of

the

these conveniences being in many instances,

?