'A petition from the residents in Ford Lane is read, desiring that the Lane be lit, policed, and supplied with hydrants, as a return for payment Municipal rates, and a general diseussian ensues on the subject of the treat ment by the Council of private roads and alleyways throughout the Settlement.
So far as policing is concerned thi performed wherever required the erection of hydrants on private properties must at all times be a matter for arrangement between the owners and the Waterworks Company and, in regard to public lighting, the members are unanimously of opinion that public lamps should not. be erected on private properties except at the cost of the owners or tenants.
For the convenience of the residents of Ford Lane it is however decided to make up, metal, and light, the strip of the Batavia Road recently acquired connecting the Lane with Thorburn Kiangse Road.—Noting that the cost of removing the temporary bridge at the Astor Road and re-erecting it at the Kiangse Road would be Tls. 300 higher than that of repairing the existing Kiangse Road Bridge, and that the estimated of the structure would be less, it is decided to proceed with the latter work. junieipal Properties.
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