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TOWN SEWAGE, AND ITS 



the farm pay. His recommendations briefly stated, were to 

 follow the arable or mixed system of husbandry — partly as 

 market gardening, and to provide for the partial consuming of 

 the produce on the farm. When this report was received, 

 several members of the corporation proposed letting the farm, 

 and it was retained by the narrow majority of 8 to 7. Accord- 

 ing to a report on sewage by Mr Eawlinson, C.E., and Mr C. S. 

 Eead, M.P., which was presented to both Houses of Parliament 

 in 1876, the loss on the farm is entered at £371, or a penny in 

 the pound on the rateable value. The yearly instalment on the 

 cost of the works is shown to be £552, but this annual charge is 

 not entered in any of the balance sheets issued by the corpora- 

 tion. We now enter the balance sheets of 1874 and 1880, as 

 best showing the financial position of the undertaking. 



Crop and Year 1874, 



Carry forward, £5181 13 6 



