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steam road roller. The process was very successful,
and I am inclined to think that if put in operation
immediately the snow is heaped, it will prove a cheap
and efficient means of disposing of it. If this is so
the clearing of the main roads upon these occasions will
be much facilitated.
Street
watering.
The quantity of water used for street watering was
9,794,000 gallons, and the cost, including meter rent,
£387 4s. 10d.
Bedford row,
Mane street.
After considerable negotiation, the owner of the
property at Bedford row paved this court with Victoria
stone and 4-inch pitchings at his own expense.
Improvements.
Improvements by widening have been effected at
Punderson gardens and Hollybush gardens, the owners
of the property giving up to the public an area of 200
superficial yards of land upon the condition that the Vestry
properly pave the same. A further improvement was
also effected at the northern end of Hollybush gardens
(by setting back a projecting fence) on payment of the
sum of £10 as compensation.
A give and take line at Felix street and Clare street,
which will form an improvement by straightening the
lines of footway, has been arranged with the Governors
of Parmiter's Charity.
A communication having been received from the
School Board for London with respect to the extension
of the New Castle street Board School, the desirability
of widening the passage leading from Jacobs street to
New Castle street was brought before the Vestry.
The School Board offered to sell to the Vestry the land
necessary for the widening for the sum of £526, but
after some negotiation agreed to give the land subject