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ROAD WATERING AND SLOPPING.
Your Committee having, for several years past,
found that this work had not been carried out to the
satisfaction of the Ratepayers, gave the subject much
consideration; and, in preparing the Contracts for
1876-7, resolved to recommend the Yestry to make
the experiment of executing a portion of this work
without the aid of Contractors.
For this purpose permission of the Yestry was
obtained to purchase Horses, Carts, See., for carrying
out the work of Division E—viz., the Peckham Rye
and Nunhead District; this course was the more
especially recommended as the Contract amounts
at the last time for tendering for the several Districts
were much in excess of those of previous years. It
is, of course, too early to thoroughly anticipate the
results of this experiment: nevertheless enough time
has elapsed to convince your Committee that one
essential at least has been accomplished in the District
now under their charge—viz., that the work is
being well done, in proof of which during the seven
weeks the work has been in their hands not one
single complaint has been registered.
The Watering and Slopping of the entire Parish
by this method is now being seriously entertained by