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NEW CARRIAGEWAY PAVING.
The works comprised in the contract mentioned in the last Report
have been carried out.
A difficulty arose with regard to paving the margin of the Cambridgeroad.
The Tramway Company had, with the sanction of the Vestry
at the time of the construction of the tramway, laid down 3X6 cubes.
The contract with Mr. Griffiths provided for laying down 3X7 cubes.
The Tramway Company objected to incur the considerable cost of
removing the paving outside their lines and replacing it with 3X7
stones, and it was found impossible to put down the 3X7 stones by
the side of those put down by the Tramway Company without cutting
into the concrete on which those stones were laid, and doing so would
have involved great risk and additional cost. It was therefore
arranged that the contractor, Mr. Griffiths, instead of laying in the
unpaved margins of Cambridge-road 3X7 stones, should put down
stones 3X6, and that he should allow the Vestry the difference
between the price of the stones put down and the price of those contracted
to be put down. In carrying out the work it was necessary to
use, in many places, on account of the nature and condition of the
substratum, a very much larger amount of concrete than was specified,
and in consequence liabilities for extras were incurred ; but after
allowing for them, and taking credit for deductions for the price of
the stone laid in Cambridge-road, and for some patches of paving
which it was found unnecessary to relay, the sum ultimately payable
to the contractor, under his contract, was agreed at £ 18,792 3s. gd.,
instead of £zo,505, the contract amount.
In February, the Vestry determined to pave the part in this Parish
of the carriageway of Roman-road, and to apply towards the cost the
balance, so far as it will extend, of the £20,000 borrowed last year,
and an arrangement has been made with Mr. Griffiths to lay down
3X7 granite pitchings. Under the special circumstance of the
contractor having in store a quantity of stone of that size, intended to
be used in Cambridge-road, he has agreed to execute the work at
16s. sd. per superficial yard.
When carrying out the paving of the carriageway of White-street,
it was found advisable to take up the footway paving in that street,
betweeen Cheshire and Derbyshire-streets. It has been taken up,
and "Patent Victoria Stone" laid instead.