Although only 4400 stars can he. seen with the naked eye, a catalogue of 4,009,000 is being prepared. Tho first observatory was built at Greenwich in 1675, then, a little riverside villago many miles from London. A house at Richmond, London, Tented at £72 a year wns converted into flats, and 13 now bringing in .£344 a year. The London County Council has schemes for the clearance of eight slum areas involving cn expenditure of’ £757,. Chunks of dried milk were recently used in Britain as fuel to drive a railway locomotive ton miles. It costs £lOl a month to clear the Royal parks of London of litter thrown down’by careless visitors
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11935, 16 September 1924, Page 12
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