BOROUGH RELIEF WORKS.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 69, 18 October 1930, Page 5

BOROUGH RELIEF WORKS.

APPEARANCE OF STREETS IS BEIJNG CHAAttED. During the winter work has been carried out on certain Borough streets tor the purpose of relieving unemployment, and, what has been done has had the effect of very materially changing the appearance of some of the rougher streets. The dump at the corner at Ariel Street and Seyton Street is gradually being filled up s and a good deal of clay has been' dumped to improve the crossing of the gully in Seyton Street. South of Seyton Street a nice job has been made of Ariel Street, a good grade being provided for the-junction with Seyton Street when the gully is filled up. Work here has cost about £2OO, and the street is finely shaped, with 42 feet of roadway and 27 feet of footpath and slope to the roadway. Here 308 q cubic yards of clay have been shifted. In Orlando Street there is a filling of 17 feet, north of Seyton Street, and here the footpath has been raised 4 feet on the west side. Over Orlando Street, from Regatf Street to Pembroke Road about 4000 yards of clay have been shifted. North of Seyton Street the road level has been raised 2ft 6in. A new tunnel has been made to carry the stream under the road. This stream is the second largest the Borough staff has to deal with,' the largest being that in' Pembroke Road.

In Brecon Road, south of Opunake Road, a small section of footpath has been formed on the east side.

Further on a great improvement has been made, a big filling doing away with a nasty piece of swamp. A culvert 68 feet long runs under the filling. The cost of the work here was £9O.

Some, of the statements were repeated, said the detective, some more than once. Witness then took Townsend upstairs to wait with him and Constaple I/apouple, for the arrival oil Dr. Thomson. Townsend saw the raincoat in the detective's office.

"Oh, God, that's niy raincoat'', he said. "That's my wife's blood on my coat". When brought to the watchhouse on September 1Q Townsend was talking more than persons ordinarily brought there. When walking up the istpjirsi to the defective's oilica and in that office he was steady both in voice and posture. He was Hushed, which was some indication that* die had been drinking. When the doctor asked him he said he had been drinking a good deal.