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1881, to pave the footways of College Road (part of), Dulwich
Wood Park, Farquhar Road, and Jasper Road (part of),
with compressed asphalte. The work was executed in 1881.
Some three or four years after their completion, cracks on
these paths appeared, and subsequently they were repaired
again with mastic asphalte, instead of compressed, and the
portions so repaired are now in good condition.
These paths were surveyed by your Committee, the
manager of the company attending. An offer was received
from the company that the defective paths should be relaid
in mastic asphalte, f inch thick, and the present compressed
removed, payment to be made in three annual instalments,
the Vestry to carry out the mason's work required.
The Committee resolved:—(a.) That By-law 31 be
suspended (b.) That the offer of the Societe Francaise des
Asphaltes, Limited, be accepted, to remove the present
defective compressed asphalte, and relay the same with | inch
mastic asphalte, at an estimated expenditure of £350, spread
over three vears.
This was approved by Vestry 25th May, 1892.
Fire Escapes
and
Alarms.
The question of Fire Alarms again occupied
the attention of your Committee, the Fire
Brigade Committee of the County Council having written,
asking that the indication of the positions of Fire Escapes
and Fire Alarms might be carried out by and at the expense
of the Vestries and District Boards of the Metropolis.
Your Committee also had before it a resolution of the
Vestry of Paddington that it is undesirable that Local
Authorities should in any way interfere with the arrange
ments of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade by providing notices
indicating the positions of the necessary appliances for