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by the Company from the road and placed under the
footpaths. The Post Office have also removed their telegraph
cables and placed them under the new footway
on the south side. For the granite paving on the
margins of the tramway and at the street crossings
4½-inch Jarrah wood block paving has been substituted.
The blocks were dipped and grouted with tar and
pitch and laid on concrete; 5-inch stringy bark blocks
were supplied by the Tramways Company for the area
(769 yards super.) maintained by them (3 feet on each
side of the outer rail): these blocks have been all laid in
one section on the north side of the road from the railway
to 20 yards west of Foley Place, and the cost of
laying (2s. 6d per super, yard) was paid to the Board
by the Company. The asphalte paving on the north
side from the railway to St. Andrew's Street, and from
St. Paul's Church steps to Rozel Road on the south side
has been replaced by 2½-inch York paving. A. loan of
£3,000 was obtained, and is repayable by annual instalments
spread over 20 years; and the London County
Council have agreed to contribute £1,200; the total
estimated cost being £4,200. The cost of the improvement
was as follows, viz.:—
£ s. d.
For land acquired, including vendors' costs 1,481 0 0
„ Re-building forecourt fences and alterations
to gullies, &c. 84 0 0
„ Wood paving 1,391 0 0
„ Kerbing and York paving 1,054 0 0
£4,013 0 0
This total is exclusive of the Board's solicitor's costs
in the matter. The paving works included 1,833 yards
super. 4½-inch Jarrah wood paving, 1,860 yards super.
2½-inch York paving, 43 yards super. Staffordshire
blue brick paving on concrete, and 1,005 feet lineal 12inch
by 8-inch granite kerb.
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