MODERN LONDONER
QUITE REFORMED. i United Press Association—By Electrii Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Nov. 23. As the result of a two-years” investigation, directed by Sir Hubert Smith, it is stated that Londoners arc now more sober, healthier, and better educated than they were forty years ago.
It is stated that the Londoner consumes fifty per cent less alcohol than lie did in 1890, smokes twice ais much, travels more, spends four times as much, reads four times as many books, and is less inclined to crime and violence. The Cockney dialect is disappearing, hut the Cockney twang spreading to other classes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1930, Page 6
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