CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 721

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first appeared in the Estimates

in 1889, and that the sum

as the ~

$3,000 was quoted estimated cost. No definite scheme had however at ~

that time been prepared.

The matter has since

of

been fully considered by the Sanitary Board and the - increased amount of $6,500

was inserted in this

year's Estimates to meet the- increasing requirements of the Peninsula, where, I may

mention

(

mention, there at present

716

exists no public abattoir for its population of

14.

some 18,000.

The building of the

Public Laundries, the urgent

necessity for which is

admitted

on

all hands, has

recently been begun. The |

the

washing operations of the native laundrymen hill sides above the town -

on

have long been a public -nuisance and a danger to health.