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STREET WATERING.
Carbolic acid has been mixed with the water for watering certain
streets during the hot weather when necessary.
The quantity of water used for watering the streets, steam rolling,
and washing pitched roads was 59,597,000 gallons, for which the
Vestry paid £2,341 14s. 7d., including the rent of meters.
SANDING ROADS.
662 loads of sand and other material have been spread on the roads
on thirty-three days when they were in a slippery condition. The cost
of the material and labour amounted to £156 1s. 6d.
SNOW STORMS.
A fall of snow ½ inch in depth occurred on the morning of the
7th January, 1893, and another fall of ¾ inch on the 17th of the same
month. Additional men were immediately engaged and the snow was
removed from the footways in the principal thoroughfares without delay.
The total cost incurred amounted to £335 13s. 3d., of which £197 12s. 8d.
was paid to the additional men employed.
Three snow ploughs have been purchased at a cost of £58 4s. 6d.
IMPROVEMENT WORKS.
Highgate Hill.—South-Wed side, from a point opposite No. 14,
West View, to Dartmouth Park Hill.—Paving gravel margins with
new 3-inch York, at a cost of £56 7s. Od.
Highgate Hill.—South-west side, in front of No. 1, West View.—
The gravel footway has been paved at a cost of £13 2s. 0d., towards
which amount the owner of the premises contributed a sum of £9 4s. 0d.
Archway Road.—North-east side, in front of the Wesleyan Chapel.
— The gravel footway has been paved at a cost of £49 13s. 6d.
St. John's Road.—South side, in front of the Royal Oak P.H.—
95 feet super, of ground having been given up by the owner of these
premises, it has been added to the public way and paved with new
3-inch York paving, at a cost of £3 14s. 2d.
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