RAPID GROWTH

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 374, 8 November 1932, Page 7

RAPID GROWTH

POPULATION INCREASES BY 80,000 IN 10 YEARS. Offleial census figures for Essex, recently published, show that Dagenham has grown from a parish of 9127 people in 1921 to a town with a population of 89,362 in 1931 — an increase of 80,235 (says th'e Daily Mail). There, where avenues of trim, red house have sprung up like mushrooms, people with only seven or eight years' residence to their credit are classed among the oldest inhabitants. One woman wh'o seven years ago was living in Walworth, S.E., said that when she and her husband went to live in Dagenham their regular evening walk was to a farm a few hundred yards down the road. _ "We always went there at milking. time," she said. "We had never seen cows milked before, and after the busy streets of London it was strange to be living in the country." Nojy this woman's house is just one in a long street, and there is a grocer's shop where the cow byres used to stand. It is difflcult for a stranger, visiting for the first time this flourishing town, with its wide streets, gabled houses, and trim gardens, its shops and schools, to realise that - only ten years or so ago it was a quiet village. 1 The great housing lcheme of the: London Gounty Councii is chiefly re- j spunsible for the ®ansformatio_n. ■