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three parts:- $5,500 per mensen were paid to Ng Kwong the

new Scavenging Contractor for the collection of refuse and

its conveyance to the Praya; a further aum of $1,300 per

mensem was paid to Ng Kwong for providing 4 junks to

receive the refuse, and the monthly payment of $1,500 to

Messrs. Wilks and Jack

for the steam-barge, in which the

refuse was towed out to sea and the disposed of, continued

as before. The total monthly cost of scavenging at that

date was therefore a sum of $8,300.

4.

From the 1st. July, 1907, up to

the present time, the Scavenging Contractor, Ng Kwong, has

been paid $5,500 a month for the collection of refuse only,

and Messrs. Wilks and Jack have been paid $2,600 monthly

for disposing of it at sea by means of 3 junks and a steam-

-lighter. The contract with Ng Kwong will expire on the

31st. December, 1909, while that with Messrs. Wilks and

Jack expires on the 30th. of next June. The former employs

a staff of 589 men daily, the latter have a crew of 10

men on each junk and 31 men on the lighter. The monthly

cost of scavenging is therefore at the present time $8,100.

5.

Meanwhile on the 29th. November,

1906, the Sanitary Board had modified their original

recommendation by advising that a tender of the New

Engineering