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SURVEYORS REPORT.
For the Year ending Lady Day, 1896.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Thirteenth Annual report on the
various matters connected with the Departments under my
control.
PAVING DEPARTMENT.
The abolition of macadam roads still continues, and if the
present policy is maintained, we shall shortly have no macadam
roads either in St. Saviour's or Christchureh.
The following are the principal carnal way and footway
paving works executed during the year:—
PARK STREET.
The carriageway of this thoroughfare from Emerson Street
to the Arch of Southwark Bridge which crosses this street,
has beeft paved with re-dressed granite pitching on a new
foundation of lias lime concrete 6 inches in thickness ; the
footways have been repaved with new 2½ inch York and resquared
stone.
The area of carriageway relaid is 600 supl. yards, and
of footway 1450 feet, of which 457 feet was new.
LITTLE WINCHESTER STREET.
The old granite paving of this street has been replaced
with re-dressed stone on a new concrete foundation 6 inches in
thickness, and the footway paved with new 2½ inch York stone
paving. Area of carriageway paved, 437 yards supl. Area of
footway paved, 386 feet supl.