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planting ; the locality is elevated and exposed to the sun and 
wind, and ago liable to. suffer in summer from the effects of 
the long dry m 
The whole area is F wants to the waters of the new supply 
from the Nepean ; but that work could not afford water for the 
irrigation of such an area without reducing the head required for 
giving an ample supply to the Syney reservoir. 
It struck me while viewing the ground, that a large ator 
of the sewage of the western suburbs might be utilized here 
would form both an irrigating as well as a fertilizing agent if i it 
could be delivered here 
e site being elevated, it follows that the sewage would not 
gravitate there; : but if it ave a value as irrigant and fertilizer, the 
cost of a line of pipes for its conveyance of a iti plant, and 
the labour of pumping would not be very gr 
A large tank could be constructed here to receive the sewage at 
the highest elevation, whence it would command the surrounding 
for its reception. 
Lizurnur System. 
Tuts system has attracted very considerable attention from the 
public and authorities of Europe, and for some ‘ged conditions, 
as life in barracks, &c., no doubt, it meets a long felt 
Tt proposes to draw the contents of water-closets heerigh iron 
pipes into reservoirs constructed underground in a convenient 
spot, by suction, or to speak more scientifically, by exhausting the 
air in the reservoir. 
This scheme has procured high encomiums from Belgian, 
Russian, and French authorities for adaptability under certain 
circumstances ; but as it only proposes to deal with night-soil, and 
municipal bodies around = ey will moguare a anne which will 
in addition to the Lieurnur’s system, entailing immense cost, it 
must suffice to say that it does not meet the requirements of our 
suburbs, notwithstanding that it discloses in its invention a sig 
commendable amount of | ingenuity and thoughtful labour. 
I have this afternoon received an advance proof of Mr. Stayton’s 
report to the Sewers Department on the sanitation of North Shore, 
and I need not perhaps say that, like all modern en @ 
prescribes identically the plans advocated herein for that suburb. | 
As I have never exchanged one word with Mr. Stayton on this 
subject, it serves to prove the unanimity of engineers in England. 
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