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REPORT.
In laying before the Ratepayers, whom they have the
honour to represent, a report of their proceedings
during the year, which ended on the 25th March, 1867,
the Vestry cannot do better than refer to the Annual
Report of their Surveyor, which is appended hereto.
It contains the detailed particulars of the paving and
sewerage works undertaken and carried out, which it
is hoped will be deemed a satisfactory instalment of
those operations, which have for their end and aim the
health and comfort of the parishioners; but, on account
of the expence involved, can only bo gradually accomplished.
It must be a satisfaction to those who
reside in the Hamlet, to know that great progress has
been made towards the complete drainage of the district,
and that there are but few houses which are not
within an available distance of a sewer. The streets
which have been adopted by the Parochial Authorities
are almost all paved, and those, which, through the
neglect of owners of property, have not been brought
under the control of the Vestry, are being, from time
to time, as circumstances permit, put into proper order
at the expence of the persons upon whom the law justly
imposes the burden.