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OBSTRUCTIONS IN THE STREETS.
Of late years a great increase has taken place in the number
of costers and others selling goods on the pavement and roadways
of the streets in the Parish. In many eases trucks or stands
were placed in the roadway for hours at a time, and sales
took place from such trucks and stands. Special attention has
been directed by the Vestry to this matter, so as to stop its
commencement in new streets or in main thoroughfares,
and in districts where the practice had not previously existed.
In cases of continued persistence, proceedings have been issued
against the offenders before the Police Magistrates.
VESTRY IMPROVEMENTS.
As there is a probability of some change being made in the
management of affairs which have been, during the last 32
years, under the control and direction of the Vestry, the
occasion of making the Annual Report suggests a suitable
opportunity of taking a retrospective glance at what has been
done during that period in the matters connected with the
sewerage and drainage of the Parish, and the maintenance,
repair, and cleansing of the highways and streets and places,
and other works, coming within the duties of the Sewers Committee,
and the Committee for General Purposes. A comparison
of the present time with that of 1856, shows the rateable value
then was £490,255, against April, 1888, £1,491,123; the produce
of a penny rate was then £2,042 14s. 7d., it is now about £5555.