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Materials used in repairing roads :—
Broken Guernsey Granite
1795
cubic yards.
Ditto Bombay stone
397
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Ditto Common stone (various)
101
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Gravel and Hoggin
248
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Ground and stone carted
2763
loads.
Blue has time
4
sacks.
Grey stone lime
12
cubic yards.
Portland cement
2
casks.
Slop carted:—
Parish roads
1714
yards.
Main
3039
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1,723 feet of kerb has been laid during the year, viz.:—512 feet in Deptford Old Lowerroad,
on the west side, opposite Midway-place; 79 feet at Westfield-terrace, and 1,132 feet
on the east and west sides of Baltic-place, and the cost thereof debited to the Paving Loan
Account
The paving of the carriageway and footways, Union-road, and part of the carriageway,
Deptford Lower-road, has been completed by the Contractor, (Mr. Thomas Turner), at a total
cost of £9,461 17a.0d.; the excess over the amount of the Surveyor's estimate being caused
by an extra length of carriage-paving having been laid at the Surrey Commercial Dock
Entrance, Deptford Lower-road, and at Market-place, and by a larger quantity of concrete
than estimated being found to be required as the work proceeded. In order to cover such
additional expense the Vestry, with the consent of the Metropolitan Board of Works, obtained
a further loan of £1,462 of Mr. Robert Lawrence, making together with the loan of £8,000
already obtained of that gentleman for the said works, the sum of £9,4G2, raised upon mortgage
of the Paving and General Purposes Rates of this parish, such sum being repayable by
twenty annual instalments, with interest at the rate of £5 per cent, per annum.
The following are abstracts of the cost of Cleansing, Maintaining, Watering, &c., the
Main Roads and Parish Roads for the years ending 25th March, 1868 and 1869 respectively,
by which it will be seen that up to tho 25th March, 1869, although the carriageways, Unionroad,
and Deptford Lower-road had then been paved only nine months, a decrease of nearly
£1400 in the amount of expense for the Main Roads, under the heads of Cleansing and
Material for Repairs had taken place as compared with the corresponding items for the year
1868, when the said carriageways were Macadamized. It may, however, be considered but
right to take from such sum the amount paid on account of principal and interest, which
would then leave a balance in favour of tho parish of nearly £500.