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I had occasion in the last year's Report to refer to the extraordinary
wear and tear upon our Roads in the vicinity of
the Main Sewerage and Railway Works; the same cause and
effect has also continued during the past year, and has had a
sensible effect in keeping up the expenses of repairs in their
vicinity. The Crystal Palace also with its many thousand
visitors annually passing to and from the building, as well as
the carriage of the merchandize (a necessary adjunct thereto)
tends very materially to enhance the annual cost of the repairs
to the Roads through Dulwich, &c., it now being requisite to
expend almost as much labor and material upon many parts of
them, as is found necessary even in the more leading thoroughfares
and populated neighbourhoods. In addition to which,
these Roads were in their first formation not prepared to
receive such constant and heavy traffic; and I think it will in
all probability, at no distant date, be my duty to recommend
to the Yestry a change in the material used on these Roads to
meet this increased traffic; but I delay doing it for this
reason, that the first outlay will be considerable, and further,
it may be prudent to await the development of the Railway
traffic, which may probably re-divert some of this traffic from
the Public Roads on to the Railways now in execution in
this locality.
FOOTWAYS.—NEW KIRBINGL
In the last Report it was announced that the Yestry had
ordered a sum of £200 for each Ward, to be expended in this
very desirable work. Up to this date about one half of the
quantity so ordered has been laid, and I anticipate by the
time this Report is published, the entire quantity, viz. about
20,000 feet will have been completed. I may further state,