FOG COSTS £4,000,000
SIX DAYS IN LONDON.
A six-days fog in February, it is estimated, cost London something like £4,000,000 Some of tlie items in the bill are: —
■ ... wffllpaperj .etc ■ • - 120,000 Tlie iWfiiber Of small' vessels which were stationary in the Thames estuary ran into hundreds. The railways not only had to face a heavy decline in passenger revenue, but they had to cancel some of their most profitable godds trOiis, to q.M’ow even the limited passenger services to be maintained. .. _, ...... fil many large West End shops assistants were walking about with nothing to do, and normally crowded busy restaurants were half empty. Not since 1901 had a fog lasted so long.
Losses in Thames shipping 1,000,000 G-eneral shipping and dock loss’es 1,000,000 Railway losses 500,000 Shipping losses 500,000 Hotels and restaurants 50,000 Extra lighting 100,000 Theatres and amusements 30,000 Deterioration of stocks- in - warehouses, etc 250,000 Deterioration of house linen,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 April 1927, Page 10
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