NEW LONDON MARKET.
SITE OF FORMER SLUMS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 18. Tho new market at Spitalfields, which the King, accompanied by the Queen, will open next Thursday, will be the finest fruit and vegetable market in the world. Built at a cost of £2,000,000, it will embody under its roof every known improvement in market methods- For the site of the market 10J acres of slum streets have been cleared, the inhabitants being rehousod in new residential blocks elsewhere. Round the markot itself narrow alleys have been built into wide streets, but further work in this direction has still to be done.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 303, 20 November 1928, Page 7
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104NEW LONDON MARKET. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 303, 20 November 1928, Page 7
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