LONDON STATISTICS
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. London is a great city? Londerers have always thought so. Now they have statistics, provided by the London County Council, to prove it. They have 120 weddings every day. Each year London imports goods to the value of £321,000,000, which represents nearly half the trade of the entire Kingdom. Exports reach the figure of £145,000,000.
But London does not think merely about money. It has 41 fogs a year. On 187 days it rains: and each day it enjoys, on an average, three hours and twelve minutes of sunshine. Every man, woman and child- uses 37 gallons of water a day. and they could, if ever the wish seized them, walk on 2,325 miles of street without going outside the confines of Greater London.
While engaged on this ambitious promenade they might employ themselves with the reflection that it costs £1,450 to keep each mile of these streets in order for 12 months. Each day 66,000 vehicles whirl round Trafalgar Square, and 60,000 circle the Marble Arch. London costs the authorities £40,000,000 a year to run.
There are quite a lot of Londoners to be proud of London; 8,203,842, in fact, which is claimed to be a million more than the population of New York.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 5
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