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REPORT, 1891-92.
The Gas Company have been served with 278
notices during the year for the rectification of defective
service pipes, &c.
During the year 4 lamp-posts were knocked down,
16 columns broken, and 25 head-irons and lanterns
damaged by various parties, the restoration being
made good by the Vestry's own staff of workmen, at
the expense of those causing the damage, with the
exception of 10 who escaped detection.
Complaints having been made in the early part of
last year as to the insufficient lighting of Uxbridge
Road, it was decided by the Vestry, the Committee
having one night previously viewed six experimental
lamps, to substitute Sugg's Victoria Lamps and 10-ft.
governors for the existing 4.6 lamps and burners.
This was done by the Vestry's workmen, the posts
being moved within the line of kerb and new services
put in by the Gas Company, at the cost of the Vestry.
The lamps, fifty in number, were first lighted on
the 11th June, and are on the average meter system,
there being six meters fixed equidistant throughout
the road.
DUSTING.
The question of how to dispose of the enormous
quantity of rough dust now annually collected m the
Parish is becoming a most difficult one; every outlook