1869-70.]
COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORKS, IRELAND.
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Post Offices.
Fublic Extensive alterations are in progress of being made at these buildings consequent on the introduction of the Postal Telegraph Service, and considerable further works will be required during the present year at these establishments.
National Education Buildings.
Twenty-live new ordinary literary National School-houses have been built in the past year at a total cost of £8,162 4s.
4d, towards which the Board contributed the sum of £5,441 9s.
7d.,
being two-thirds of the cost; the remaining one-third of the expense being contributed by local persons interested in the schools.
Various additions and improvements, such as providing timber flooring, erecting porches, building enclosing walls and gates, wainscotting, tablet rails, and other works, have been effected at 24 ordinary literary National Schools, at a total cost of £882 0s.
9d.
Towards this sum the Board contributed two-thirds, viz.,
£588 0s.
6<£, and the remaining one-third was borne by local persons interested.
Besides this expenditure the Board have expended in repairing and maintaining the Metropolitan (or Central) Model School Buildings, the District Model, Minor Model, and Model Agricultural Schools, the sum of £5,284 8s.
4c?.,
and a further sum of £1,376 15s.
2d.
for furniture for those buildings ; and on the ordinary literary National Schools in charge of the Board a sum of £2,332 4s.
has been also expended on works of maintenance and repair.
Labouring Classes Lodging Houses and Dwellings Act (Ireland).
,29 & 30 Vic, c 44.
Only a few loans under these Acts have been made.
As the statutes do not give the Government advances a priority of charge, expensive searches as to title and incum¬ brances are necessary, and this, with the fact that tenants for life are precluded from borrowing, limits and much restricts the operation of the Acts.
Coast-Guard Stations.
The following new Stations have been completed during the past year :— Ardmore, county Waterford, 1 Chief Officer and 4 men.
Ballygeary, or Roslare, county Wexford, 1 Chief Officer and 7 men.
Ballykeige, county Kerry, 1 Chief Officer, 1 Chief Boatman, and 5 men.
Ballycastle, county Antrim, 1 Chief Officer and 6 men.
Extensive alterations and additions have been made at Ardmore (Rocket Shed) Annalong, Ballingkelligs, Ballycotton, Bray (Boat House), Bearhaven, Ballycroneen Baldoyle, Bar of Lough, Ballymacaw, Bonmahon, Castletownsend, Crosshaven, Cahore Carlingford, Clontarf, Cromane, Cranfield Point, Cahirciveen, Courtown, Crookhaven Dunny Cove, Dunany Point, Dunmore, Fenit, Fethard, Groom's Port (Rocket Shed) Howth, Helvick Head, Knockadoon, Knightstown, Lambay, Lame, Lackeen Point Malahide, Morris Castle, Moville, Oysterhaven, Old Head, Poor Head, Portrane, Port-magee, Rosses Point, Roche's Point, Robert's Cove, Rathmullen, Rosscarbery, Soldier's Point, Skerries, Tribane, Tarbert, Upper Cove, and Wicklow (Boat House).
The works are in progress at the following new Stations :— Ballydavid, county Kerry, 1 Chief Boatman and 6 men.
Ballyglass, county Mayo, do.
do.
Courtmacsherry, county Cork, 1 Chief Officer, 1 Chief Boatman, and 7 men.
Elly Bay, county Mayo, 1 Chief Boatman and 5 men.
Malin Head, county Donegal, do.
do.
Sheephaven, county Donegal, do.
do.
Preparations have been made for building new Stations at— Buncrana, county Donegal, 1 Chief Boatman and 4 men.
Ballintoy, county Antrim, do.
do.
Curran's Port, county Donegal, do.
do.
Cultra, county Down, do.
do.
Seafield, county Clare, 1 Chief Boatman and 6 men.
Skull, county Cork, do.
5 do.
Whitehead, county Antrim, do.
4 do.
Arrangements have also been made for new works and alterations at—Carrickfergus, Whitehouse, and Ballycastle, county Antrim ; Mill Cove, Ballycotton, Crosshaven, East Ferry, Kinsale, Knockadoon, Oysterhaven, Poor Head, Robert's Cove, Rosscarbery, and Upper Cove, county Cork ; Kilcredane, county of Clare ; Cranfield Point, county Down ;
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