Meaning of nightcart | Babel Free

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“Any person who shall be desirous to exercise or practice the business of a nightman, or drive any nightcart, within the limits of the town of Port Pirie, without a licence from the town council of the said town first obtained, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds.”

“He found, on his visit in 1887, that the pans discharged through earthenware pipes into a nightcart tank in the basement, which was taken away and emptied three times a week by a private contractor, whose duty it was to remove the night-soil "to some place outside the suburban boundaries".”

“The nightcart travelled up and down city and suburban streets collecting pans full of sewage and replacing them with fresh empty ones.”

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