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TO THE
VESTRY OF PADDINGTON.
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Surveyor's Department,
Vestry Hall,
30th June, 1880.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Annual Report of the
various works executed, and of the principal official
transactions in this Department during the year
ended Lady-day, 1880.
Highways.
A further removal of macadamized roadways,
and a substitution by wood blocks on a Portland
cement concrete foundation have been effected in
Radnor Place, Somers Place, Praed Street, and
Cambridge Place. The total area of these works is
10,309 yards superficial, and the cost for concrete and
wood pavement laid complete has been £4,597 3s. 7d.,
or about 8s. lId. per yard. The preparation of
the ground to receive the concrete and wood blocks,
and the laying thereof, were executed by the
Vestry's workmen, under my superintendence, and