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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
I have much pleasure in again giving
an account of the various works undertaken in my
department during the year which has just terminated.
roads.
One of the most important duties which devolves
upon me is the repairs of the various highways under
your control, and I am able to refer to the work of the
year with considerable satisfaction. Every road which
has been coated with granite, and many which have
been gravelled, have been rolled by steam power. This
rolling not only renders the surface of a road fit for the
passage of vehicles, immediately after the work is completed,
thus saving considerable wear upon vehicles and
horses, but it makes the surface so fair and even that
it would be impossible to obtain the same result were
the traffic permitted to grind the granite into its bed,
as in the old method, thus saving the trituration of the
stone and at once putting it with all the angles sharp into
its proper bed. It likewise makes a road which will
last longer than one formed by trituration. The Vestry
had the opportunity of purchasing from the Beverley
Iron Company a fifteen ton steam roller, made by
Messrs. Aveling & Porter, for the sum of £400. This
machine had been supplied to the Corporation of Buda,
Pesth, in Hungary, and had only been at work nine
times, as the surface of the roads at Pesth were insufficient