Dredging

Dredging operations have been proceeding almost uninterruptedly for the past seven years, during which period 2,319,030 cubic yards, or 3,221,475 tons of dredged material, consisting of stiff clay and mud, have been removed, at an average cost of 6d. per cubic yard. The Dredging plant used has been a single [unclear: dder] Dredge and two steam Hopper Barges, the holding capacity of the latter being 250 tons each. The dredged material is removed by them to Camp Bay a distance of 3½ miles and there deposited. The present