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In addition to the carriageway paving works already mentioned,
new channels have been formed in the following streets. The stones
used were removed from streets that have been recently paved:—
Chester street St. Peter street
Chester place St. Peter square
King street Thurlow place
Nelson street
STEAM ROAD ROLLER.
In May last the Vestry took into consideration the advisability of
purchasing a steam road roller; negotiations were entered into with
Messrs. Aveling & Porter, of Rochester, and a 15-ton roller was
supplied by them and kept upon trial for three months; the Vestry
then, upon a recommendation of the Works Committee, resolved to
purchase the roller at a reduction of £70 upon the price originally
asked by Messrs. Aveling & Porter. The actual price paid was
£493 1s. 6d.
The roller has been in use 141 days throughout the year, and the
cost of fuel, engineer's wages, oil, and repairs, amounts to
£82 1s. 10d.
£ s.d.
141 days at £2 5s. per day (the price originally paid
for hiring a roller) 317 5 0
Add paid by the Gas Light and Coke Company for
hire of roller 8 15 0
326 0 0
Deduct Expenses 82 1 10
£243 18 2
The following is a list of the streets rolled by the Vestry's roller:—
Albert road Chester place
Auckland road Derbyshire street
Bonner's road, Prospect place, Ellesmere road
to Approach road Hague street
Brady street Kenilworth road
Canrobert street King street
Cross street London street
Cheshire street Mape street
Chester street Morpeth street