LONDON’S COUNTRY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11934, 28 January 1936, Page 3

LONDON’S COUNTRY

ITS PIGS, POTATOES AND COWS

London’s remorseless tide of bricks and mortar has not yet wiped out the countryside in the administrative county area. It has Us farms, with pasture for the cows who supply London’s millions with some of their morning milk, pink and white clover grow ® n 12 of its acres, mangolds cover an( * * n the autumn 3 6 acres shine with the gold of wheat. Pigs and potatoes, cows, and 273 agricultural workers thrive in the tounty area. These are the figures 0r t * le L c C’s last statistical year, an though the boundaries of Lon°n are pushed every year farther an farther afield, we may expect the al country i n it to grow smaller. ~ 6 horses ar e going. Only ,100 pass " ' aß Tunnel now where went twenty years ago. e market gardens are passing. e last little orchard between unnersburj- and Kew has Jugt gone> mi Witfl flats Presume to best , selves a village. London’s Creci I( rf e ’ S tlle en iargement. of its ened B , elt ’ and even that is Ihl‘eated Unles * the L C C makes haste.