Although it is now five years sinew a vote of Tls. 52,000 was passed by the ratepayers to enable the Municipality to purchase a garbage destructor, this most necessary aid to scavenging has not yet been procured.
I understand experiments are still being carried out in Calcutta and elsewhere from hich we may in time derive the necessary destructors of various Kings are in full and information. "In many parts of the world
satisfactory working, but s0 far as our requirements are concerned, the experimental stage has not yet been passed. So far as I am aware no destructor has as yet been invented calculated to consume garbage containing so high a percentage of mud, broken: tiles, crockery ete,, as 33 per cent, the estimated proportion to be found in the sweepings of the Shanghai streets.
The necessity for some better means of disposing of our garbage than that supplied by the existing system is apparent when T remind you that during last year the Council had to deal with the collection and disposal of upwards of 100,000 tons of garbage.
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