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9
Year.
No. of
Streets.
Length in
Miles.
Cost.
Reported to 1883
353
42¼
£227,800
1884
33
5
£24,700
Total to date
386
47¼
£252,500
The collection of the cost of the above work is
most difficult, the charge of the same is undertaken
by a Sub-Committee appointed by your Committee
which meets each alternate week, and as often as
occasion requires sits all day to see the various
owners and discuss and arrange the payments
by instalments, or otherwise.
The number of Summonses issued during the
past year, and adjudicated upon at the Police Courts,
have been 176. In addition to which through
various causes the Committee has directed proceedings
to be taken against 18 defaulting owners in the
superior courts, under the advice of the Solicitors to
the Vestry.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS.
The following "Local Improvements" have
been carried out by the Vestry during the past
year:—