THE GROWTH AND VALUE OF LONDON.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 9, 30 April 1877, Page 2

THE GROWTH AND VALUE OF LONDON.

There are eight localities with a rateable value exceeding £1,000,000. Next below this group we have the Wandsworth district with £857,522, followed by Piutnstead and Lowisbam: with £718,493, aud Hackey wit!* £695,580. The Fulham district has also made an advance, rising from thn 33th place to the 20s h, the houses being more than doubled and the rateable value trebled. Poplar has taken a step forward from the 2 1st place to the 3th, the houses haying io.crens.-d in number by one half, and fhe rateable value raised from £218,256 to £518,486. In rateable value Poplar now stands nest", to St. James's, WestSt. George's, Hanover Square, despite its fashionable repute, has fallen from ' the sth place to the 7tb, but stands | second for rateable value, whereas it . was third on that account in 1556. Its i rateable value has gone up from s £893,976 to £1,499,954, the latter ■ being about half the rateable value of 1 the city. But St. George's has lost \ ground" since 1856, for at that period it ' had nearly three-fourths of the rateJ able valuable of the city, although far i short in the number of houses. Tim j wealthy pariah does not increase greatly i in the number of houses, but the average rateable value of a house in.^t. > George's is exceptionally high, being * £142. The City average w abou) 5 twice as high, but we see that the ! average for all London is qnly £55, . Of course all parishes cannot rise in | relative importance, but it is satis factery to find chat all the localities spocified in the list are making some . progress. A marvellous increase in i rateable value is shown by the parish. - of St. John, Hampstead, the amount 20 1 years ago being only about £77,000, whereas now it is nearly £326,000. Yet Harapstead has only risen from the 39th place (last but one) to the 23rd. Bethnalgreen has increased its rateable value more than three-fold, alhough it has fallen from the 12th. place to the 16th. Altogether the figures arc replete with interest, and will doubtlesss be made the subject of considerable discussion. — Standard.