The enormous growth of traffic through this city’s railway system is revealed in figures published in the Tel Aviv Municipality Bulletin.
During the calendar year of 1933, the incoming tonnage handled was 121,871, and outgoing tonnage was 10,591. In all there were 85,666 passengers. Thus raiway receipts for the year show an increase of 11,969 pounds over the 1932 total of 10,395.
Statistics on building construction activity, just released, are interesting. No less than 103,481 square metres of buildings were added to Tel Aviv during the quarter ending May 30, 1932, representing an increase of some 22,000 square metres over the same quarter of 1933. The number of building permits issued was 540, compared with 560 in the same 1933 quarter.
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