LONDON STREETS.
ANYONE CAN DIG THEM UP. it cable—press association—copyright Received July 12, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, July 11. Amusing stories, previously regarded as fables of the ease with which anyone without molestation could dig up London streets, which no fewer than tw'entv-seven authorities control, convulsed the Lords in the course of the Traffic Bill debate. Lord Montague of Beaulieu, invoking the protection of the Statute of Limitations, confessed that he. .with a few kindred spirits dressed as navvies, carrying a watchman’s box, poles and lamps, in 1904 dug a yawning abyss at the buiest corner of Throgmorton Street. Six days elapsed before the corporation commenced inquiries, and ten days elapsed before it was discovered that it had been hoaxed and filled up the hole.
Lord Birkenhead set the seal of veracity with a story of Oxford undergraduates who dug up a hundred yards of Oxford Street without interference. —Sydney Sun Cable. 9
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 July 1924, Page 5
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