58 Memarfcs on tJie ^Report of the Water Commission. 





IMaCEDIATE ANNUITIES. 





Year. 



No. 



Purchase money. 



Amount, 



1865 



94 



£24,349 



£2,236 



1866 



283 



71,568 



6,427 



1867 



551 



136,637 



12,393 





DEFEEBED ANNUITIES. 







Purchased 



by Single Payments. 





Year. 



No. 



Purchase money. 



Amount. 



1865 



10 



£1,006 



£138 



1866 



27 



3,010 



443 



1867 



40 



4,376 



620 





Purchased by Annual or more frequent Payments. 





Year. 



■No. 



Purchase money. 



Amount. 



1865 



44 



£507 



£927 



18fi6 



80 



809 



1,675 



1867 



97 



990 



1,9&4 



Tlie progress is very manifest throughout, but the returns do 

 not exhibit that marked appreciation on the part of the public 

 which has been noticed in the case of the Post OiEce Savings' 

 Banks. 



Aet. TI. — Hemarks on tlie 'Report of the Water Commission, 

 especially loith reference to the Qeorcje^s River Scheme, ly 

 Andreiv Garran, Es^., M.A., L.L.D. 



[Read before the Society, July 6th, 1870.] 

 The importance of an adequate supply of fresh water to great 

 cities, alike for the purposes of health and manufacture, is now 

 so universally admitted that no words need be wasted in urging 

 it. In the case of a city like Sydney, situated as it is in a hot 

 climate, and certain (if not hindered) of great future commercial 

 and manufacturing prosperity, it is of the utmost importance 

 that the supply of water should be both ample and reliable. At 

 present the city enjoys neither a sufficiency nor a certainty. 

 Twice within a comparatively recent period the citizens have 

 been inconvenienced by being placed on short allowance. In 

 order to economise the supply, the streets had to remain unwatered 

 during the hot and dusty weather, and fires raged with unnecessary 

 destructiveness because the water had been shut off at night in 

 order to diminish the waste. In consequence of this limited 

 supply, there has been a tendency for manufacturing industries 

 to locate themselves at a distance from Sydney where a supply 



