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PARISH OF TOOTING.
A 10-ton steam roller has been hired and used for 35¼
days for the repairing of the parish roads, at a cost of
£77 1s. 3d., and on new roads for 24¼ days, at a cost of
£49.
The following new roads have been paved and adopted
during the year, viz.:—Yant Road, Bickersteth Road
(second portion), and Tooting Grove (second portion),—
total length, 4 furlongs, 97 yards.
The estimated cost of making up and paving these
new roads under the annual contracts of the Board
amounted to £2,539 17s. 9d., and the materials, &c.,
used in the work included 34 new gullies; 2 manholes;
930 yards of hard core ; 1,891 yards of gravel and flints;
5,774 feet of new granite kerb; 915 super yards of
granite channel and crossings; and 4,205 super yards of
new tar-paving and running and shelling.
The charges for re-instating trenches made for gas and
water purposes during the year amounted to £84 17s. 10d.
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 £49 14s. 3d.
The materials used in the above work (including the
repairs to trenches) were:—392§ super yards of tarpaving
; 1,705 super yards of retopping; 1,928 super
yards of running and shelling; 488 feet of York paving;
150 feet of Victoria stone paving; 7* super yards of
granite pitching; 18 feet of 12 inch by 8 inch kerb ; and
the refixing of about 2,027 feet of old stones, brick
paving, wood paving, &c.