17. As regards drainage, the suggestions of the Sanitary Commissioner
are probably financially impracticable. But the cost of substituting for the
present earthen gutters properly paved open saucer drains ought not to be
great. Care should be taken that these drains have a proper and sufficient
gradient, and that the out-falls are carried down to low water-mark.

      18. Steps should be immediately taken to set aside near each quarter of
the town convenient places for natural purposes. It will probably be best to
manage these on the "trench system"; when this is done, the use of house-
privies, always dangerous and expensive, should be discouraged. Such of the
wealthier classes as wish to have privies should be permitted to do so only on
condition of their being detached, properly constructed, and fitted with efficient
receptacles, and of paying for the cost of cleaning them. This will cause a
saving to the Municipality, and the work is one for which the public ought not
to pay. The house-owners should be required to pave their gullies within a
reasonable time.

      19. A thorough surface cleaning of the town should be carried out at
once, and if dust-bins are too costly, the house-holders should be required to
deposit their refuse in specified convenient places, whence it should be removed
daily. When this is done, the existing Staff (49 hallalcores and scavengers with
their muccadums) ought to be sufficient to keep the town clean. It is pretty
clear that the men have not hitherto been properly supervised and kept up to
their work.

      20. The President should report as soon as practicable what steps the
Municipality propose to take to improve the sanitary condition of the Town, and
whether any additional powers under Section XXVII. of the Act are required.

      21. The thanks of Government are to be communicated to Dr. Hewlet
for his energy in this matter.

W. G. PEDDER,            
Acting Secretary to Government.