to the Town of Geelong. 53 



As a general principle,, I have advised that the consumption 

 for Geelong be apportioned as follows, (looking on the stan- 

 dard modicum — " twenty-five gallons" — allowed in Melbourne, 

 as no criterion for colonial guidance,) having the likelihood of 

 a most abundant and unlimited supply. In my calculation I 

 allow sixty gallons per head, per diem for the summer con- 

 sumption, to supply the ordinary domestic wants, &c. &c, as 

 hereafter enumerated, for a population numbering fifty thou- 

 sand souls. 



For the winter half-year, when consumption necessarily 

 (for public purposes) is very much diminished, I allow forty 

 gallons, being a mean of fifty gallons per head per diem, as 

 the basis on which I found my calculations for the en- 

 tire yearly consumption, and distributed under the following 

 heads : — 



1st. Domestic Uses. 

 2nd. Hospitals, Dispensaries, &c. 

 3rd. Asylums. 

 4th. Schools. 



5th. Gaols, Court-Houses, &c. 

 6th. Public Wash-Houses and Baths. 

 7 th. Shipping. 



8th. Horse and Cattle Troughs. 

 9th. Extinction of Fires. 

 10th. Cleansing and Watering Streets. 

 11th. Flushing Sewers, Drains, &c. 

 12th. Ornamental Fountains. 

 13th. Public or Botanical Gardens. 

 14th. Gardening Purposes. 

 15th. Railways. 

 - 16th. Steam Engines. 

 17th. Manufactories. 

 18th. Abattoirs, 

 And Public Buildings in general, &c. &c. 



In calculating the supply, I take the water-shed, being a 

 surface catch-water basin, assumed to be, at a most moderate 

 estimate, ten thousand acres in extent, within the marginal 

 apex, the drainage of which flows into the Barwon, by way 

 of Wormbete Valley, where I purpose impounding it by the 

 formation of an embankment fifty-eight feet in height. 



