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TBINIDAD : THEN AND NOW. 



it is beyond doubt that these streets so laid out have 

 required less repair than any others in Port-of-Spain, 

 and this, in a marked degree, has kept down the ex- 

 pense of their subsequent upkeep. I ean personally 

 testify that the street now called Stanmore Avenue 

 did not for over 12 years receive or require the 

 slightest repairs. 



Tranquillity lands were laid out in the following 

 streets :— Cipriani Boulevard (so called after the 

 Mayor) — one of the finest streets in the town but 

 sadly lacking in suitable dwelling houses, Victoria 

 Avenue, Stanmore Avenue, Tranquillity Street and 

 Tranquillity Square. There are now here about 

 fifty dwelling houses, most of them of the better 

 sort valued at an annual average rental of £100. 

 Many of them occupied by the owners and 

 consequently are not rented ; but those that are 

 bring the average rental I have stated. These streets 

 and the square are, in many places, shaded by stately 

 saman and other trees, always in leaf. In the square 

 four sets of tennis courts are laid out and all kept up 

 at the expense of the subscribers, and a bandstand 

 has been erected, but the enclosing railings are at 

 present in a bad state. There has been built by the 

 government two fine schools with suitable residences 

 for the head teachers ; a well-equipped government 

 printing office, with almost all the modern improve- 

 ments of this art. Very fine work in printing of 

 various sorts, book binding, lithographing, and other 

 dmportant work is carried out in this establishment. 

 A roomy drill hall for the use of the volunteers has 



