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PARISH OF TOOTING.
Longley Road. Arrangements have been made for the London
and South-Western Railway Company and the London,
Brighton and South Coast Railway Company to enclose a
strip of land forming the approach to the old Tooting
Junction station, and an agreement has been entered into
whereby the Companies are to pay an acknowledgment
of one shilling per year, erect a new fence, and pave the
footpath co-extensive therewith.
Paving New
Streets.
The following new roads have been paved
and adopted during the year, viz.:—Aldis
Street and Carlwell Street, total length 1 furlong 67 yai'ds.
The estimated cost of making up and paving these new
roads under the annual contracts of the Board amounted
to £870 9s. 5d.; and the materials used in the work included
4 gullies, 679 yards of hard core, 414 yards of
stone gravel, 1,720 feet new kerb, 363 super yards of
channel and crossings, 1,169 yards of tar-paving, and
1,169 yards of running and shelling.
Trenches. The charges for re-instating trenches made
for gas, water, and electric light purposes during the year
amounted to £277 7s. 8d.
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 £82 10s. Id.
The materials used in the above works (including
repairs of trenches) were 3,6872/9 super, yards of tarpaving,
2,1964/9 super. yards of re-topping, 1685/9 yards
of running and shelling, 48| super, yards of granite
pitching, 89 feet of 12-inch by 8-inch kerb, the re-fixing
of about 14,028½ feet of old stones, brick-paving, woodpaving,
&c., 206 feet run of York paving, 300 feet of
Victoria stone paving, 340 new blue bricks, 725 new wood
blocks.
steam Rollers. Steam rollers have been hired from Streatham
for 20¾ days, of which 5 were for new roads and 15¾ for
parish roads, at a cost of £41 6s.