STREET CLEANING.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —In Sydney, for street cleaning! they use a thin metal spade, about two feet wide by one foot six inches, curved sides, fixed on small metal truck, with | handle at back and fixed broom on top. The whole on wheels Gin. high. The young street cleaners can work all day with a straight back, aud do three times the work with less exertion, than the primitive system of broom and spade adopted in Auckland. The City Council have a very insanitary manner of emptying the sweepings of Queen-street into wells placed nearly in. the middle of the footpaths, much to the disgust of pedestrians. Why not have them iv a line with the kerbstones, the same as in all well-conducted cities? —1 am, etc, J. D. LOWE. \
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 164, 13 July 1910, Page 2
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133STREET CLEANING. Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 164, 13 July 1910, Page 2
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