HOW GREATER LONDON GROWS.
How Greater London grows is shown by the annual ~eport of the Chief Comr/Mssioner of the Metropoli tan Police, who gives a. return showing the number of new houses built and new streets and squares formed, with their length in miles and yards, during the past year. There were 27,174 houses built, 301 new streets formed, occupying a length of 60 miles, 408 yards, whilst the number of new houses ,in course of erection was 6,449. There were just over 2,000 more houses' built than in the corresponding period of the previous year. Since 1891 the number of new houses built number no less than 1,812,117, the number or new streets mado being 2,643, nnd 7 squares. The length of such being 531 miles, 206 yards.
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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 146, 13 January 1903, Page 4
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130HOW GREATER LONDON GROWS. Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 146, 13 January 1903, Page 4
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