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Resolves-That the Clerk forward to the Chairman of the Company a copy of the
Surveyor's estimate of the cost of maintenance, end also notify him of the application to
continue the wood paving to opposite the Primitive Methodist Church, and invite the views
of the Company thereon.
On 16th March, 1897, the General Purposes end Works Committee reported having
considered the following letter from Mr. W. J. Carruthers Wain, Chairman of the London,
Deptford & Greenwich Tramways Co., relative to the laying of wood in Union Road:-
"There are two or three joints which should be mutually considered—The first, that as to
conceding the principle of wood paving opposite churches and chapels on our road. My
Directors feel they could not possibly undertake to pave with wood in front of the whole of
them. If you are disposed to regard Christ Church as an absolutely exceptional case, and will
agree to this, they will not be indisposed to consider the question. Seecondly, they think there
should be some consideration by the Vestry if they agree to this wood paving being inserted
instead of the granite at present there; and that there should be a reasonable allowance made
for the extra cost of repair or maintenance as between the cost of wood and granite; and
thirdly, they desire to ask you for permission to insert a new passing place in Union Road
between the points mentioned to your Surveyor in our interview with him, in order to
faciliate the traffic and to prevent the blocks on the road, which are only of too frequent
Resolved, upon the recommendation of the Committee, that Mr. Wain be informed
that the Vestry cannot pledge themselves to regard Christ Church as an absolutely
exceptional caste, but upon the Company agreeing to lay wood paving in front of Christ
Church and maintain the same, the Vestry will as a quid pro quo consent to the extension
of the two passing places on either side of Cathay Street and Paradise Street respectively.
No further progress had been made in the matter at the close of the year.