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A considerable portion of this work must necessarily
be suspended until the proposed Improvement
of widening several of these thoroughfares is carried
out by the Metropolitan Board of Works; but there
are portions which could be at once undertaken.
The execution of this work would result in a
decrease of the cost of Repairs, Slopping, &c.
Channelling.
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"Whilst upon the subject of Stone Paving, I may
here refer to another great necessity for the application
of this special description of work, and which
I have, as your Surveyor, for years past been
anxious to initiate, but which, from the immense
quantity of work from time to time undertaken by
the "Vestry during the last few years, I have
refrained from pressing on your notice. I refer to
that most desirable work—viz., Channelling the
water tables or sides of the public thoroughfares
between the Roads and Footways. The necessity and
ultimate economy of such work, more especially on
roads with steep gradients, cannot be possibly
questioned; but the mileage being great, the cost
will be great also. I therefore now only refer to the
subject as one which should at no distant date be
entertained. For the present it may be considered