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NEW SEWERS WORKS (IN PROGRESS).
Grove Vale, Goose Green, fy Lordship Lane.
The negotiations so long pending with the
Trustees of the Selwyn Estate, in order that the
course of the outlet Sewers might be advantageously
placed in the line of one of the intended roads running
through their property, opening up into
Grove Yale, having been finally arranged, as also
for the payment of a contribution towards the cost
of the work by the owner of this Estate, your
Committee directed your Surveyor to prepare Surveys,
Plans, and Estimates to be laid before the Vestry for
its approval—also duplicates of the same—for the
sanction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, which
has been granted.
Subsequently, a Contract was entered into with
Mr. William Wainwright, for the execution of these
Works, which, at the time of preparing this Report,
are progressing satisfactorily.
The execution of these Sewers Works will
provide for the extensive Improvements and Building
operations, now going on in this Locality, and
also afford the means of removing the cause of many
complaints so frequently made, which it was impossible