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Kerbing has been laid on the east side of St. Ann's
Hill, between Rosehill Road and A spicy Road, and a
gravel footpath formed, at a cost of £31 12s. 10d.
The old paving and kerbing on the south side of High
Street between St. Ann's Hill and South Street has been
taken up and replaced with new 12 inch by 8 inch granite
kerbing and 2½ inch York paving at a cost of
£269 17s. 8d.; six new stoneware gullies were fixed and
connected to the sewers at a cost of £30; the carriage
way and seven crossings to gateways between the same
points have been paved with 5 inch by 3 inch creosoted
wood paving blocks laid on 6 inches of cement concrete.
The total quantity of wood paving is 1,938 super yards,
including 59 super yards of crossings, and the total cost
of £1,058 16s. 10d., being at the rate of 10s. 9.66d. per
super yard. Six hundred and thirty-three cubic yards
of metalling were removed from High Street and used
on roads in various parts of the parish.
In order to facilitate the delivery of materials to, and
the removal of house refuse from, the parish wharf, the
creek has been cleansed and lowered 2 feet 9 inches
at the north-east corner of the wharf. A new concrete
wall has been constructed at this point and a portion of
the old wall adjoining the Bell Lane draAv dock underpinned.
The total cost of the work, was £151 8s, Od.
Three hundred and twenty cube yards of road materials
were removed from the creek, valued as follows:—
£ s. d.
100 cubic yards of broken granite at 7s. 35 0 0
100 cubic yards of hard core at 1s. 6d. 7 10 0
120 cubic yards of binding material at 2s. 6d.15 0 0
£57 10 0