BUILT BY WORKLESS,

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18809, 3 December 1932, Page 22 (Supplement)

BUILT BY WORKLESS,

A £90,000 TOWN HALL. OPENED BY PRINCE GEORGE. Prince George stood bareheaded In heavy rain when he visited Beckenham, Kent, to open tho new £90,000 town hall buildings. In the rain lie walked round a double row of 40 councillors and officials, who were presented to him before lie unlocked the doors of the new town hall with a key handed to him by the architect, Mr T. A. Lodge. Declaring the new buildings open, from the balcony Prince George said that Beckenham had made such headway in the last few years that it now stood third in population and first in rateable value among the towns of Kent. Councillor A. 11. Dykes said that no public buildings had been built in recent years at a lower cost per cubic foot than the new town hall, which had cost is fid per cubic foot. The construction has been carried out. as unemployment relief work. Most of the men engaged upon it for IS months would otherwise have been out of work. Four thousand school children cheered the Prince as lie drove from the war memorial on which he laid a wreath, to the town hall.