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yet dedicated to the Public, calling for the powers of the
Metropolitan Local Management Act to be put in force to
compel their repair. Surveys and estimates have been made,
and every consideration given to such applications, but most
of these cases have failed to provide the estimated amount for
the repair of the Roads so applied for, and through the Vestry
not possessing the necessary powers to enforce compliance,
many of these thoroughfares remain a detriment to the Parish,
and a disgrace to the neighbourhood in which they are situate:
and the reproach attendant on their present neglected condition
is unjustly visited on the Local Body who ought to have the
control over them, but whose present powers in respect to such
matters are limited. This defect in the operation of the
Metropolitan Local Management Act has been sought to be
remedied by suggestions forwarded from this Vestry to the
Metropolitan Board of "Works for insertion in the Amended
Act, proposed to be applied for by that Board in the present
Session of Parliament.
The additional Road adopted by the Vestry during the
past year is Cemetery Road, length 2,400 feet.
ROAD WATERING.
The length of the Parish Roads watered during the past
season was 17¼ miles at a cost of about £1,220.