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Dust Disposal and Removal.
The Council undertakes the work through the Engineer
and Surveyor's Department. The collection is made
throughout the District weekly by means of covered vans.
Builders are required to provide portable Circular Sanitary
Dustbins to all new houses, and owners are requested to
replace worn ont bins with these.
The refuse is chiefly taken on to the Sewage Farm and
precautions are taken that it does not become a nuisance.
Light Railways.
In the Spring the M.C.C. Light Railway from Wood
Green to Station Road top (near London and Provincial
Bank) was opened. Friern Barnet is thus connected direct
by tram to Wood Green and Finsbury Park. The Station
Road from the District Boundary to the top was widened by
the M.C.C. to a minimum of 50 feet.
The M.C.C. have deposited plans for laying the metals
along the Friern Barnet Road and Woodhouse Lane, but
the time for the construction of the lines has been extended
by the Board of Trade until December 31st, 1908.
The question of the very necessary widening of the
G.N. R. Bridge over the Friern Barnet Road is also being
considered by the M.C.C. and the District Council in connection
with this Railway together with paving the footways
with Patent Victoria Stone, kerbing aud channelling,
and the paving of the track with wood blocks in place of
granite setts as now suggested by the M.C.C., the latter,
in my opinion, are noisy, do not prevent vibration and are
not so easily cleaned and scavenged.
The M.C.C. have bought much of the property along
the Friern Barnet Road in order to make the necessary
widenings, which accounts for the many empty houses along
this road.
Electric Lighting Order.
The Council's Electric Lighting Order has lapsed. The