CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12] — Page 364

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house-

Sewage

innte

A

lange

this kind which from its

Compelled

d

to have

channel

size

is

somewhat flat

ht u.ed

nevert or

A

floor, the exception

made in this instance because the

one, peceives street sewers

same nullah which

is

old.

a

very

along

its entire

per

hvels

passuge

of the town.

through the

up

29

Raising boil of Crous thank re.

These street and laves which abut

on the Praya,

pun down to it from

queen's Road at a

compliance in

considerable in

descending gradient, a fortunate cir_ far that makes it possible to raise the roadways", where requisites, to accord with the

level of

the

new Embankment, withi=

-out incurring my

serious expenditure:

The

6000

The item of of booo required for this

service refers to a multiplicity of

minute detail in

connexion with the

few

Cases

of

raising of peoples dovrstips and in thresholds, and in a warehouse and shop floors

as also the

raising of the public footpaths

side gutters in the

the typical section

42 Aner

geven

at

shown.

one

and

Corner

of the bracing attached. This raising of the old backs to suit the new embankment does not extend

distance than 100

up any of the side streets to a grealen

feet, and the estionate:

to the as flors owing laves which have this to

in

only

number

of

high

be dealt with

3.

-

2. Dredging the foreshore along the

Entire harbour frontage.

In

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