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100 for the Company’s chief inspector, one for the chief Storekeeper; six large cottages, and six smaller ones adjoining the Roman Camp; six semi-detached houses for foremen; a large coffee-house with a reading-room, and an adjoining house for the man keeping the coffee-room; twenty stone cottages closely adjoining the main shaft; and two stone semi-detached houses for foremen.

A mission-room with 250 sittings had also been completed, with schoolrooms behind, in which a day-school was carried on throughout the whole of the year; and at the end of the year a separate detached schoolroom of three rooms had been built, a certificated master appointed, and the school was put under Government inspection.

The principal office for the works, a large two-storied building, had been built, with a cottage adjoining, for the residence of the office-keeper.

At each shaft large rooms called ‘cabins’ had been built for the men to take their meals in, and where they could dry their clothes.

A saw-mill had been established, and a large carpenter’s shop.

Stables for twenty horses, with a cottage adjoining, had been built; also a new fitting-shop and blacksmith’s shops.

The roads to connect the new houses with the main roads had been completed, and in addition to the permanent houses, six wooden houses had been built near the brickyard for the men employed there.