DINNER BILL FOR £2OOO
Cleaning and watering London’s streets and wharves cost the corporation £152,668 last year. The annual boot allowance for the city police was £2839, and their plain clothes allowances £1455. The expense of traffic signals in the last year has been £2258. These facts are published in the annual accounts of the Corporation -of ‘London. The report contains 320 pages of figures, .and includes the following items of public expenditure:—Lunch arid reception to the late King of Iraq, £2177 (menu, £105; cigars, £114; loud-speak-ing apparatus, £3). Banquet to delegates of the World Economic Conference, £2153 (food and drink over £1000). Upkeep of Towdr Bridge, £30,043.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1935, Page 21 (Supplement)
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108DINNER BILL FOR £2OOO Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1935, Page 21 (Supplement)
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