WORKS IN BOROUGH

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14811, 18 May 1914, Page 5

WORKS IN BOROUGH

» —-4— FOiIEMuVN. JACKSON'S KEJPOIBT. lA't tine last meeting of the Thames iß'ioi'augjh Coumciil the follo.winlg' r<v port frora the foireman (Mr T. Jackson) was. .road a:nd adopted): The clay filling of thje footpath on /the northern tdde of Abraham Street, foidt>\\<--s.ui (Ptoilc-ai and Owon' Sltreets, has IX.-Lll tekem up for a depth of .about 4dn, land the footpath made, up Uj th© level oi the concrete watertaibie with^ good gravel. This hats fcp'cn W'incled -wkJi n»<she3 and well roill>;d, a'rnd the footpath- if now in good ordeir. In ciL'oor&anee with insitiructJions the following; work has been carried' out fe,t the public library: The counter bas been removed two feet further frouu the wtwtcirnn wiill of the refev.emcv.- n-ooan, and a passage way left at each end; book u^ielves i.avto been niiade tind erected on the oemtre •tof the oou'n.'teir. The whole £ tba maw work has been Rtmined and varfliished1, and earned out ae. diireeted by the cJiainrman of the Library Cornmiittee. Two" nieai atre ax present ■engu^e'd in repa-irdng and cleaning Hie Venetian, hiinds iQJid cleaninur tb<» •^■indowi?. The trees" on the .western ewle of it-hci 'Uoaidh Bbad, .XJjp'poiarte Pini'c^isi itoundry were olbstruicimjr t!he telie■gra.ph lines, and have, beep trimmed fend should not require further a£t©nHfcion for eomo time. The carpenter and two m«n' are now eiiifriapcd in eifoctdng r-epacrs to fche Waio4n.h.!i aqmediitot. The top plank«a at the cart crossingI,over this aqueduct (loading to Khe /WWotaM min<>) havo, 'been renewed' wjth 12 x "8 plainks for a df,'®tanioe pf'7£)ft. -In ■ carry mar aut. this woi;k several pi the onip p: 'j;;<'s which carry/ the' deoknng jpla'nks were found t<j.. I>e> In n.' de>caye.'T (onditu'on, and thfwp have also 'Jbeem renewed. , The owner of property, fronting ""llollx-t Street has now, comphea with tihe Cou^iJ'fi tnKstrudtionß to mnove - !'"ii.::o back lo tfc #«rtvßOt I^ound»T|y on the Biouthi hide, and! this - street k now the full1 lecial width of «ftft. 'On fviiturday the inst-ant a ibreak occiTrred in the 30in • county mai'ii '.'-i ' C'inj.pSol f^treet, omd thns toaiiKcd -i lairjre quiantAty of water -tk> fiVw downl Ma.rth-a, Cam.p'beJl an<l CcyihiMiiii ' s.trect>i. A oan^idenrible , -amount of bindinff wa k o washed off the ■■road-i, but clthiCr'wiise no d!am,ape' roBUiltod. " T'l'vi h'ospiitial twalsl cnip^ii^e^ wj'tii waiter froui the lioi-ough mnfri during -fche t-'inc1 the jcounity "mtain wns being reipaired. The 'service wptrii-c/S ,expired on the 3J*4 uTt., and I .would like to diV>m- the , coimictl*fl attention ito tl'o so'ti^factoiry manner in wjhith -"Rfi" Flynr v carried out £hwi contract.