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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16120, 8 July 1914, Page 8

As illustrating- the rise in Square proporty in the past eight years in Palmerston North, Mr L. TWnicoat, manager of the Union Bank of Australasia, stated at the Assessment Court t.lkat the bank sito was valued at £70 per foot eiffht years ago, ami the latest valuation placed on it amounted to £208 per foot. The section has two frontages. "Tho last value astonished us when we received it," sak! Mr Barnicoat. — The London General Omnibus Company issues something" like 2,000,000 tickete in the course of a single day, and for those people -who like to have such matters elaborated into statistical details it may bo remarked that a day's ."upply of tickets weighs about one ton. If placed end to end they would stretch from London to Dover, would cover a space of nearly an aero, or if placed flat on top of one another would reach to a height of 1666 ft