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THAMES FLOODS WORKS.
The Works required by the Metropolitan Board
along the Malls, have, so far as the Board were liable, been
completed.
The Metropolitan Board have permitted the Board
to allow Mr. Biffen and Mr. Welshman to have openings
with tidal boards to enable them to get their boats in and
out, and they (Mr. Biffen and Mr. Welshman) have
entered into an agreement to indemnify the Board against
any damage or loss that may be sustained in consequence
of the tidal boards not being inserted in the openings.
The whole of the works required to be done under
the Metropolis Management (Thames River Prevention
of Floods) Amendment Act, 1879, so far as this Board is
concerned, have been carried out.
STAMFORD BROOK ROAD.
The improvement of this Road, by setting back the
fences of Nos. 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10, and No. 316, Goldhawk
Road, has been completed, at a cost of £750 2s. 9d.,
which sum is rather in excess of what was first estimated.
The Metropolitan Board refused to contribute towards
the cost, although it is, without doubt, a work that
comes under the category of Local Improvements; the
Board, however, does not despair of, at some future time
through its representative, inducing the Metropolitan
Board to contribute one-half the cost.
STAMFORD BROOK COMMON.
The Work of Raising the Common is at the instance
of the Chiswick Local Board, being carried out by this
Board, and has afforded the Board considerable means of
disposing of slop, road scrapings, etc. When the work is
completed the Board has agreed to co-operate with the
Local Board in surrounding the Common with a suitable
post and rail fence, and a considerable improvement will
be effected, the Common affording a useful open space for
the recreation of the public.