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9
IMPROVEMENTS.
Your Committee now can congratulate the
Parishioners upon the completion of the re-construction
of Taylor's Bridge, this work no doubt
has appeared to the public to have been long in
hand, which resulted from causes over which the
Vestry had no control, further than to sacrifice
time, rather than submit to exorbitant claims
for compensation, which have now been satisfactorily
arranged by Mr. Pownall, the Arbitrator,
who reduced the principal claim from £1,500 to
£290.
The attention of your Committee is now by
reference from the Vestry directed to another
Bridge improvement, viz., that over the Canal, at the
Commercial Road, called the Globe Bridge, this is
a structure requiring in the interests of the public
to be rebuilt at once, as the present one is totally
inadequate to the requirements of the greatly
increasing traffic of the neighbourhood.
TRAMWAYS.
The powers obtained last year for the construction
of Tramways along the Camberwell New Road,
Camberwell Green, and Peckham, towards New