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The Council, after considering the matter, reduced the amount
of the loan to 12,440, and fixed the period for repayment at 10 years
and the interest at £3 15s. per cent.
The loan was taken up on the 1st November, 1899.
In August, 1899, as it had been intimated to the Surveyor that
the loan of the London County Council would be granted, the Committee
obtained tenders for the necessary wood blocks for the paving
of Blackfriars Road, Waterloo Road, and St. George's Circus. When
the loan was obtained from the Council, the tender of the Jarrahdale
Jarrah Forests and Railway Company, Limited, for the supply of
450,000 wood blocks at the rate of £8 10s. 6d. per 1,000 was accepted
by the Vestry. The Committee subsequently advertised for a tender
for the old granite setts to be taken up in the roads intended to be
paved with wood blocks, and the tender of Mr. W. H. Wheeler was
accepted for the purchase of the setts.
In view of the large area which it was proposed to asphalte, the Val
de Travers Asphalte Paving Company, Limited, made an offer to the
Committee to reduce their price of 7s. 9d. per superficial yard for roadway
paving to 7s. 6d. per superficial yard, on the condition that the
Vestry granted them an order for work over a considerable area. The
Vestry, on the recommendation of the Committee, agreed to accept
this tender.
The works for which this loan was obtained are being proceeded
with.
ROPES ACROSS FOOTWAYS.
In June and July, 1899, the Vestry received letters from the
Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell, and from the London
County Council, with regard to the practice of publicans lowering
barrels into cellars by means of ropes across footways, and the inconvenience
caused to the public thereby. The Vestry of Clerkenwell
had communicated with the County Council urging upon them to