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between the walk and the boundary is to be tilled in
with plants and shrubs. The centre of the ground is
grass.
The ground has been levelled at a cost of £349.2.11,
and a contract has been entered into for sewering,
paving, curbing, and metalling the roads skirting Wendell
Park, the contract price being £1,300, but at the present
time the roads are not yet completed. The actual cost of
laying out the park will appear in the next Report.
IMPROVEMENTS.
FULHAM PALACE ROAD AT THE JUNCTION WITH QUEEN STREET.
The details of this important improvement having
appeared in previous Annual Reports, I have now pleasure
in giving the cost of same. The surplus land was put up
to auction, but as the reserve price was not reached it
was withdrawn, and subsequently the Vestry took over
the land at the reserve and have used it for the purpose
of stacking and sawing Jarrah timber into blocks.
£ s. d.
Cost of Freehold and Leasehold Interests,
Trade Compensations, Vendor's and
Vestry's Law Costs, Roadmaking and
Paving Work, Cost of Auction, &c. ... 10,974 0 .1
£ 9 d.
Receipts. Rent received 195 12 0
Sale of old materials 216 4 0
Surplus land taken
over by Vestry 1,995 0 0
2,406 16 0
Net Cost of Improvement £8,567 4 1
The London County Council contributed £4,250
towards the Improvement.
BRADMORE LANE.
A strip of land has been given up on the east side of
Bradmore Lane, for the sum of £150, upon condition
that vaults and pavement lights are allowed to be built,
and they are not to project beyond the line sanctioned,
the Vestry to curb, channel and insert the necessary
p