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CONTENTS. 



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INTRODUCTORY : 



Objects of Royal Commission ; Scope of 

 Articles ; Historical Summary ; Land 

 — Suitable and Unsuitable; Lines of 

 Inquiry; Terms Employed — Change 

 of ; Distance from Town — Advantages 

 and Disadvantages ; Surplus Area — 

 Value of ; Separate (Partially) System 

 — Advantages and Disadvantages ; 

 Management ; Mechanical Analysis ; 

 Chemical Analysis and Standards ; 

 and Bacteriological Analysis and 

 Standards ... ... 1-8 



PRELIMINARY: 



Arrangement of Matter dealt with 

 and Explanations ; Criticism of Hourly 

 Samples ; and Oxygen Dissolved Table 9 & 10 



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The details of each farm are arranged as 

 follows ; — 



HISTORY. 



REPORTS TO THE ROYAL COM- 

 MISSION.— 



The Sewag^e i 



Conservancy ; Separate or Combined ; 

 Domestic or Mixed ; Subsoil Water ; 

 Dry-weather Flow ; Storm Plow ; 

 Water Supply ; Rainfall ; Drainage 

 Area ; Flushing ; Stay in Sewers ; 

 Distance ; Sewer Capacity ; Storm 

 Overflows ; Detritus Chambers ; 

 Screens ; Pumps ; Settling Tanks ; 

 Stay in Tanks ; Screenings ; and 

 Sludge. 



Soil and Subsoil: 



Soil ; Subsoil ; Under-drainage ; Sub- 

 soil Water and Floods ; Mechanical 

 Analysis ; and liime. 



Acreaee, Population, &c. 



Treatment and Cropping. 



Dates of Visits, Mean Tempera- 

 tures, Rainfall, &c. 



Analyses — Sewage, Effluent and 

 Stream ; 



Chemical ; and Bacteriological. 



Effluent and Stream Compared. 



Dissolved Oxygen (Effluent, 

 Stream, and Mixture). 



Nuisance and Difffculties. 



Conclusions. 



LATER WORK. 



SUMMARY OF PARTICULARS 

 OF THE EIGHT FARMS: 



TABLE 60&61 



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