SIDE-CHANNELS.
EXPENSIVE MAINTENANCE.
Eeporting on the work of his department for tho year, the City Engineer (Mr A. E. Galbraith) supplies the following information:---There are over 430 miles of concrete channels throughout the City Area that have to be periodically swept and kept clean, and tho grades of some of these are so flat that they require practically constant attention; otherwise owing to the presence in them of slillage water, more especially in the unsewered areas, they are liable to become a grave nuisance, and are therefore a continual source of complaint. Their maintenance is thereforo extremely expensive;, there being no fewer than 37 sweepers constantly employed, who have their regular rounds, and are followed by drays picking up the sweepings. In the Central and moro densely populated areas the channels are swept daily, but in the outer, areas this work is done only two or threo times a week. The cost in wages alone for this the past year is no less than £7572.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 6
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165SIDE-CHANNELS. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 6
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