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Faving Works.
The following materials have been used in repairing the roads during the year
ending 25th March, 1880, viz.:
Broken Guernsey Granite 654 cubic yards
Gravel and Hoggin 224 „
Slop and Snow Carted 10,225 loads
Water for Watering Roads 3,780 van loads
Mr. W. Whale having carried out the re-building of the "Barley Mow'' P.H.
and the adjoining houses, formed a wider passage or footway between Paradise-street
and Clark's Orchard, and having given up the ground for such widening without cost
to the parish, the Vestry had the said passage flagged with York paving, and two iron
posts placed in the entrance thereof from Clark's Orchard to prevent the drawing
of vehicles through the same.
The new houses in Paradise-street erected by Mr. Whale having also been
completed, and the ground beyond the new line of frontage thereof thrown into the
public way, the Vestry caused the said ground and the footway in front of the said
houses to be paved at their expense.
A paved footway has been formed on the west side of Clark's Orchard, in front
of the new houses lately built there—two feet wide at the south end, off to eighteen
inches at the north end—and at the same time the footway on the east side of Clark's
Orchard, together with the carriageway, were properly repaired and put in order.
Paving Jobbing Works.
Messrs Booth and Wheeler are the Contractors lor the Paving Jobbing Works,
at a schedule of prices. (For particulars of Contract see page 9.)
Lighting.
A letter dated 1st November, 1879, having been received from Mr. George
Livesey, Engineer and Secretary to the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke
Company, stating the amalgamation of the late Surrey Consumers Gas Company with
that Company having been confirmed by an Order in Council, be was instructed to
inform the Vestry, that notwithstanding contracts which may have been entered into
with the Vestry and the Surrey Company, and which are now in force between the
Vestry and the South Metropolitan Gas Company, the Directors had resolved, provided
the Vestry consent to terminate such contracts, to supply the public lamps on the
same terms and conditions as those that are in force in the district of the South
Metropolitan Company, those terms being £3 19s. 0d. per Lamp per annum, payable
in four equal quarterly instalments, with an allowance of five per-cent. discount on