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and upstairs offices covered with cork-carpet, at a cost
of £99 10s. 3d.
Trenches.
The charges for re-instating trenches made
for gas, water, telegraph, electric light, and
other purposes during the year amounted to £788
10s. 1d.
Paving Works.
Repairs have been effected to the paving,
kerbing, crossings, channels, wood-paving,
and tar-paving in various parts of the parish, at a
cost of £3,374 7s. 1d.
The materials used in the above works were:—200
yards York paving, 377 yards Adamant paving, 96 yards
Clifton slabs, 1,071 yards new Victoria paving, 10,835
yards tar-paving, 6,961 yards bottoming, 11,525 yards
re-topping, 5,472 gallons tar, 311 yards shell, 854 feet
new granite kerb, 1801 yards paved crossings and channel,
200 blue bricks, 22,800 wood blocks, 166 yards sand,
713 yards ballast, 182 tons cement, 4½ tons lime, 565
yards hard core, and 936 yards gravel. About 65,565
feet of old stone and brick paving, stone pitching, and
wood paving have been taken up and relaid.
Paving
New Streets.
The following new streets have been paved
and adopted during the year, viz.:—Louisville
Road, Hailsham Avenue (second portion), Elmbourne
Road (second portion), Gaskarth Road, Rowfant Road,
Marius Road (first portion), Hillbury Road, Deepdene
Road, Holmwood Road, Culverden Road (second portion),
Gleneagle Road (second portion), Ranmere Street, Valley
Road (first portion), Smallwood Road (first portion),
Gleneagle Road (third portion), and Stockfield Road;
total length, 2 miles, 128 yards. The estimated cost of
making up and paving these new roads under the annual
contracts of the Board, amounted to £10,859 9s. 8d.;
and the materials, &c., used in the works, included 82 new