IS LONDON TOO BIG?

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 405, 12 April 1937, Page 6

IS LONDON TOO BIG?

Problem of Defence. Many a stranger, trying to find his way from one pa‘t of London to another. has declared that the metropolis is far too b'g, says an overseas writer. Authorities here are now coming to the same conclusion, and for much more serious reasons. Britain is becoming lop-sided. Its industrial power and its popucMinn are continually flowing towards London. New factories are continually springipg up in Greater London at the rate 3f one a week. One-fifth of the whole population of Britain is now concentrated here. ■ The problem chiefly worrying the authorities is one of defence. point out the danger of concentrating such a huge nucleus of industry and population within less than an hour’s striking* distance of a hostile raider. Another danger is that the North may gradually become a halfderelict area through this draining of its best people to London. A Royal Commission is soon to consider the “location of industry.”