OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1929, Page 5

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

DUTCH ART

LONDON EXHIBITION CLOSES

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, , Alarch 10. The exhibition of Dutch art which in the last few weeks has attracted 220,000 visitors to Burlington House, London, closed yesterday.

Of the exhibits, GO per cent, came from English collections, while the ■I j/utch lent many unique and priceless works from the galleries in Rotterdam, The Hague, and Amsterdam. Those were escorted by a warsnip to the mouth of tlie Thames, and in a few days the warship will return to ensure their safe arrival n Holland. Many beautiful works were also lent . by collectors in the United States and elsewhere.

GREATER LONDON

INT ICR KSTIXG STATI ST ICS

RUGBY, March 11

The vast machinery of public administration in Loudon is explained in a volume of Loudon statistics issued today. .Tt contains innumerable interesting facts about London. In the administration of the county there are 141 authorities, and in the outer London districts, which, togetner with the county, make up Greater London, there are some further 300 authorities. The number of persons, excluding officials, helping to administer the local government of London and its neighbourhood is 10,000, all' unpaid, except, a few chairmen and mayors. The gross expenditure df the London local authorities amounts to over £56.000,000 annually. Open spaces maintained by the authorities amount to forty-eiglit square miles. The County Council maintains 977 schools. Children unfit for receiving instruction at ordinary elementary schools are educated at others, specially provided to cope with their mental or physical disabilities. The council maintains twenty-six secondary schools and nineteen technical schools, aiqb makes substantial grants-in-aid to fifty-two other secondary schools, ten polytechnics and sixteen technical institutes.