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Show Various Lines Bound Greater City of Boston BOSTON. When a visitor asks how large "Metropolitan Boston" is, it is more than likely he will be answered an-swered with another question: "What Metropolitan Boston do you mean?" There are altogether more than 12 different divisions known as Metropolitan Metro-politan Boston, the smallest of them containing 14 communities and the largest containing 80 citiesand towns. The different districts are the result re-sult of smaller communities being linked to Boston to obtain a water supply more efficiently and cheaper or to co-ordinate other services. Most of the communities co-operate with Boston along business lines but refuses to be joined to the hub in ventures that would bring them under un-der the city's higher taxes and property prop-erty assessments. Among the Metropolitan Bostons commonly mentioned are the areas served by the Boston planning com-" mission, the Boston postal district, the Metropolitan Tansit commission, the metropolitan police, the metropolitan metro-politan water division, the metropolitan metropoli-tan park district and the New England Eng-land Telephone & Telegraph company. com-pany. None of the districts is similar to another and none is absolute. The commonly accepted division, however, how-ever, is that of the planning commission, com-mission, which contains 43 cities and towns. m . , |