FINEST IN THE WORLD
LONDON'S NEW MARKET SLUM AREA DISPLACED (British Official Wireless.) Roe. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. ]<>. The new market at Spitalfiolds, which the King, accompanied by tlie Queen, will open next Thursday, will he the finesl fruit ami vegetable.' market in the world. Built at a cost of £2,000,000, ii will embody under its roof every known improvement in market methods. Ten and a half acres of slum streets have been cleared for the site of the market, the .inhabitants being rehoused in new residential .blocks elsewhere. Hound the market itself narrow alleys have been made into wide streets, but further work in this direction has still to be done.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16806, 20 November 1928, Page 7
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112FINEST IN THE WORLD Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16806, 20 November 1928, Page 7
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