14 YEARS TO BUILD.
Named “The Wastrels’ Palace” by the old Moderates of the London County Council, the new County Hall at the south etid of Westminster Bridge, which was begun in the dim past of 1908, is still unfinished. The original (estimate, to 'cover all costs, was , £870,C00. Last spring an additional ' «etimate of £750,000 was made, and it is now anticipated that the final bill will top £2,000,000. And the Council will have to wait another two years before it sits in the splendid chamber being prepared for it. —Daily Mail. ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15459, 2 March 1921, Page 3
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9314 YEARS TO BUILD. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15459, 2 March 1921, Page 3
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