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fact of fourteen additional Wells being sunlc, thereby
providing the means of watering upwards of
ten miles of additional roads and streets beyond
that of the preceeding year, and that at a cost
within the previous year's expenditure.
The Vestry has ordered the Surveyor's Report on
this subject to be printed in detail for the information
of the Ratepayers.
The length of Road and Streets now watered is
about forty miles; the total length of roads being
forty-five miles.
ROAD REPAIRS, AND MATERIALS.
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Your Committee last year expressed a hope that
the decrease in the expenditure of material would
be continued, which has been the result, and they
further have to state that the contracts for all
materials and labor have been taken at a lower
rate than previously, which will have the effect of
decreasing the expenditure in the ensuing year,
and will also enable the Committee to execute
works of repairs and improvement at less cost than
heretofore.