LONDON’S GROWTH

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1934, Page 4

LONDON’S GROWTH

BOOM IN BUILDING. During the last year Isays the London "Daily Mail”) building has been so rapid in 'he north-west area of Greater l-ondon Iliad ils progress Ims su’gaercd the. builders ij'tenmelves. This admission was made at Gore licencing sessions. 3he district of Stamiiore, where the new Qiiecnsbui y station is to he built, is growing with she speed of a boom city in the days of the .gold rush, and more limn IDOD Imuses will he buili on two emaios during the next twelve months. Where there are homes there are lm..els, and two applications were made to the Bench for hotel licenses. Sir Jlenrv Curtics Bennett. K.C.. appeared on behalf of a new hotel proposed io ho erocied in Honeypot-lane: and Sir Ib'gimild Mit-'hcll Banks. K.C.. for a. pronoserl new Queensbury hotel on a. site where, "new roads art 1 going to l.c made, and houses are to he buili ptora.lly by the hundreds." Both counsel, with ,1m aid of glam-, demonstrated the boom in bricks and mortar. Each claimed that his site was the better of the two, but the Bench decided in favour only of the one in Honeypot-lane. With the coming of the new town. it. was stated that Siag-laue Aerodrome would cease to be, as the sue. would be. needed for houses and still more h'm.-os.