Roads, Pavements, &c.. At the February monthly meeting, on the motion of Coun. Putland, the Committee's recommendation was adopted to put down a kerb on the south side of Warrior square at an estimated cost of £33 10s. 6d. Coun. Bromley remarked that the footway there was greatly inconvenient, but it was hard that the town should be called upon to lay down a kerb where there would never be any houses built to pay for it, the conveyance of the ground being such as to prevent that. But he could hardly see the necessity of a kerb and nothing else.
At the August meeting, it was resolved to make the Castle street footpath 18 inches wider. It would be even then narrower than was required.
An application for a new shop in front of 56 George street was made by and granted to Mr. John Bevins, he giving up 18 inches at one end and 8 inches at the other.
At the meeting on the 2nd of January, it was resolved to lay down footpaths or crossing on the east and west sides of Warrior square at an estimated cost of £44.
On the 6th of February, leave was granted to alter the frontage of 71 High street, and at the same time, it was resolved not to adopt the St. Leonards park road. It was also agreed to widen the pavement in front of the Bourne street chapel.
To improve the road to Cuckoo Hill, at a cost of £60, and to construct a foot-pavement in the Fishmarket at an expense of £38 10s. were agreed to on March 6th.
Toll-bars and Gates. - On the 6th of February, Coun. Putland said they were all aware that the Board spent a large sum of money in repairing the roads between the town and the Hastings toll-gate, where there was a side bar which only took toll between Hastings and the Barrack ground. Financially, it was of no use to the trustees, who hardly got a shilling a year by it, whilst it was a preventive to the convenience of the inhabitants. They only sometimes caught a visitor or professional man who wished to return by the other road. It was a hardship, after the town spending so much money on the road for people to be obliged to go up the Castle road or the road past Mr. Robertson's to get out of the way of this side-bar. He therefore moved that the trustees of the Flimwell and Hastings Turnpike be asked to remove that bar - carried. The next motice on the agenda was to apply to the trustees of the £St. Leonards and Sedlescomb" and "Hollington and Hastings" Turnpike roads to remove some of their gates and to alter their systems of taking tolls. This, said Mr. Putland, was a more complicated matter and a greater source of annoyance. We had three railways and three turnpikes into Hastings, both of them being what the ought not to be. The gates were those of the Magdalen, the Old Tower, and the St. Leonards Green, all of which were in the borough of Hastings. Two of the roads crossed each other, and therefore -
