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of the cost, after deducting the usual allowance made by the Vestry, according to
the time the properly had been rated. Estimate for paving, £59 11s. 4d.;
estimate for four gullies and drains, £21 12s.
The carriageway paving, Union Road, from the west entrance to the Park
westward to Union Bridge, has been relaid at a cost of £63 4s. 9d., the Southwark
and Deptford Tramways Company paying £16 18s. of such sum for relaying their
portion of the paving outside the tramway where it was out of repair.
The approach to the Park Entrance, from Abbeyfield Road across Dilston
Grove, has been paved with tar paving 2½ inches in thickness, at a cost of 5s.,
the work having been carried out by Mr. A. C. W. Hobman.
Paving Jobbing Works.
Mr. James Etheridge is the Contractor for Paving Jobbing Works at a
Schedule of prices. (For particulars of Contract see page 8).
Lighting.
Eight additional Gas Lamps have been set up and lighted during the past
year, viz.:—One in Union Road ; one in Silwood Street ; four in Lower Road;
one in Portland Place, and one in Princes Place, making the total number of
ordinary lamps lighted by the South Metropolitan Gas Company, 473, at a cost of
£3 7s. 4d. per lamp per annum up to Christmas, 1888, and from and after
Christmas, 1888, at a cost of £3 3s. 9d. per lamp per annum, one ordinary lamp at
£3 4s. 9d., and four Sugg's lamps by meter at 2s. 5d. per thousand feet up to
Christmas, 1888, and after Christmas, 1888, at 2s. 3d. per thousand feet, less £5 per
cent. discount upon payment within one month from Quarter day.
Cleansing, Watering, &c.
Messrs. A. T. Hobman & Son contract for the supply of men, horses and
carts, and for the removal of scrapings from the whole of the roads and streets
after the same have been swept by the labourers employed by the Vestry to a
shoot provided by the Contractors, at a specified price per man, horse and cart.
Messrs. Hobman & Son also contract for the supply of horses, harness and
drivers for the Vestry's water vans (see page 8).
I he Vestry having had under consideration the cost of labour and cartage in
cleansing the streets for the years 1885, 1886, 1887 and part of 1888, on the 4th
December, 1888, the Vestry passed a resolution as follows, viz.:—
"Resolved upon the recommendation of the General Purposes Committee
that the Surveyor of pavements be requested to reduce the amount of cartage by
£500 during the ensuing year, and that it be left to the Surveyor of Pavements to
use his discretion as to how such reduction is to be effected."