SNOW REMOVAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 11

SNOW REMOVAL

i COSTS MONTREAL £400,000 OVER 3000 MEN EMPLOYED VANCOUVER, March 4. One item of expense which hears heavily on the cities of the East is saved to Vancouver by the genial coast winter climate. Only occasionally here are there bills for removing simw from the streets, but these are a constant and by no means minor fealuie ot the budgets ot such cities as Toronto and Montreal. In ihe latter city, this work, up to February 28, had already cost £334,1 fig, and if is estimated that the total winter expenditure will reach £pm,mm, I he number of working davs given lor fliis job from December to the end of February was 324,744, which, if calculated at 7u days, gives a total of 3333 men a day for 1 hat period. The dumber of working days for the same work last year was 203,.52(i. Snowfall from the beginning of winter to the end of February this year amounted to 74. Spin., as against 77.n0in. for the year preceding for the same period. On the other hand, the snow measurements since tin* beginning of the current, year showed a total of fiS.ti-fiii, to March ], as compared with 4(iin. for the corresponding period of last year. It was also ascertained that the grand total cost of removing snow from street sand sidewalks last vear was £320,100.