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CREATOR OF BIGGEST PORT. LORD DEVONPORT retires.
18 YEARS UNPAID WORK. Lord Devonport" has reticed from the chairmanship of the Port of London Authority.
For 18 years he has directed the activi ties of this great organisation, which con- trols the greatest part in the world. He has now left London for a 'short huli- day in Italy really the first he has bal free from public or other duties for 5 years. It is no exaggeration to say, says a London paper, that it is Lord Devenport's breadth of vision and driving power that have enabled London to main tain its position as the foremost mark tive trading centre of the world. For, apart from all other considerations, the fact that Loudon is a great trade cet tre would not have been sufficient if
TEN NEW BRITISH AERODROMES
RING ROUND LONDON,
Messrs. Wright, Anderson & Co., Ltd., structural engineers, of Gateshead, have secured a $100.000 contract from the Air Ministry for the erection of tea aero- strozars in various parts of the country,
Four thousand tons of steel will be used in the work and employment given to
innay on for more than a year.
The new aerodromes are part of the amplified scheme of air defence. They Will be equipped for the use of squad. rous of day and night fighters and long- range bombers.
ly
The plans being developed provide for series of zones of defence. "Inediate and Lemon is to be a ring of nero- romes provided with every new device From these will ascend squadrons of steel built To facilitate night-dying. fighters for the defence of the capital. there has not been someone in authority Farther but will cone another chain of with courage enough to embark on what air defenders with special coastal sta- at the time seemed schemes far beyondtions, from which machines will ascend the demands of necessity or even future to attack raiders before they reach the requirement. Bat Lori Devonport ww From bother series of aerodromes," aright and loyally supported by the members of the Authority, drafted
situated at strategical points, will ope scheme of development which fittingly would have the task in war of raiding rate big weight-carrying bombers, which upheld their mitto Plotrat Imperii Portus ("May the Port of the Empire instantly the air bases of the enemy" Flourish.
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AIR TRIP.
It was a scheme which has enabled London to withstand the challenge of | ZEPPELIN PILOT'S PROPHECY. the other great ports of the country. Only four times since 1910 has any other WILD SCRAMBLE TO PAY £135 FOR por dealt with greater volume of trade than Landon. That was Liverpool in the war years of 1017-18 and the two immediately suceding. To-day Lon don 14 once more ahead, handling, don's import and export trade.
BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & DOMESTIC ECONÒMY. roughly, one-third of the United King
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The value of that trade for the last year for which figures are available was
70,165,445, and to carry it vessels ng gregating 41,215,002 tons entered and lett the Port of London. Never has such tonnage beet dealt with by any port in the world, before.
£10,000,000 SPENT.
That there will be a wild scramble for berths, at E125 a trip, on the first Transatlantic airship service was the pre- diction of Dr, Hugo Ecketer, managing-
director of the Zeppelin Airship Com- pang in lecture at the Royal Society of Arts, London, before the members of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Eckener has made more than 2,000 air, ship flights
Dr.
It is certain." he said, "that air. ships which can be buils to day can make the trip between Europe and America in an average of a hours from coast to tenay, "and" "the-trip-from-Americrto
Europe in from 15 to 30 hours.
Assuming a trans-ocean traffic with
To provide the facilities for this great volume of shijiping £10,000,000 has aj ready been spent, and now tenders have Just been invited for the completion of the scheme thought out by Land Devon-three large airships, making 100 trips & port and those assoefitted with him 14 year, the single voyage would est ap As against this, years ago. These new works it is esti-proximately 210.000.
there would be a revenue from an aver- inated will cost another $4,000,000.
age of 15 tons of paying load. This would be distributed as follows:
30 passengers fuch paying £195)
Szans of mails at £8,350; and 5 tona of baggage at £3.750.
Part of this programme is a direc challenge to Liverpool, Southampton, and the other great passenger ports, for it provides for the construction at Tir-750: hary of a floating landing stage along- sid which the greatest liners will be able to draw and fand their passengers with the maximum convenience and the minium delay, The stag will be 1.140ft. long and capable of extension by another 350ft.a floating platform about a third of a mile long.
There is to be a spacious baggage hall with ery appliance for rapid handling! of luggage to enable passengers'ta "pass Customs" with ease, and. from there to trains waiting to take them to any part of the kingdom will be buy a step for the London, Midland and Scottish Rail way. Company are building at the same
new platforms and laying new Lincy
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NEW DRY DOCK,
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Toal revenue. £15.530.”
"GLEN' LINE, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM UNITED KINGDOM AND STRAITS.
THE Steamship
OAKMARTHENSHIRE" saving arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by Ker are hereby informed that all Goods are
being hazardous and er extra bazardous Godowns of
landed at their risk into the
Kowloon Wharf and Godown
tence.
snd/or from the be obtained.
the Ho Lunited, Company
Delivery may be wharves,
Goods not cleared by the
Rent
the existing docks. 19ken be subjectth May, The loft in the Gooded Prakuzes are
Another scheine at Tilbury is the con- _szmampion-atma cost of £2,000.00_of_a_w
entrance tock to 1,000ft. long and 110ft, 'wide, and a new "dry dock of corresponding dimensions which will take the largest ships using
the port.
A third part of the scheme means an expenditure of another £1,000,000 on the improvement of the Judia and Millwall locks. A new entraner is-to-be made on the site of the present south dock entrance and will be capable of admit ting the largest vessels which can be brought far up the river-within thre miles of the City.
Opportunity is also to be taken of making ship ways between the four docks, so that yessels can unload at one and then be warped to another for loading without difficulty.
These developments will complete the programine which seemed so. ambitious 14 years ago and are a Stting tribute to the remitting labour which, without fee up reward, "Lord Devonpert has per- formed for 16 years.
ONE MAN LIFTS LINER.
HOW THE BIGGEST SHIP WAS DRY.DOCKED.
water at
In a few hours on March 31st the world's largest ship, the White Star liner Majestic, 50,sht uns, was lifted clear above the surface of the Houthampton by the Southern Railway Company's oco feet long Beating duck- the largest in the world.
Actually one man, Mr. 6. P. Reah, who is in charge of the Boating dock, raised the mammoth liner, which corres- ponds in bulk to a row of modern five- storey offer buildings more than angs £fth of a mile in length,
Mr. Tah, who has only ong-arm-he lost the other in the war on trawler sgrvice stood in a control house réired ka signal cabin on one side of the dock. There he controlled fourteen, electrically driven pumps which emptied the water from the pontoon forming the bottom of the dock.
Constantly scrutinising spirit-level fitted in the cabin, Mr. Ruah moved here and there nong the witches and wheels, altering the speed of the, motors so that the dock, rose evenly with the fajestic between its walls. When the keel of the liner was more than five feet above the level of the water the ship's upper works towered above. Sonthamp-
ton.
Life, assurance as an investment" would appear to be the watchword of to- day obscuring the necessity of life assur- auce as a protection."tr. James L. Fring (Scottish Provident Institution)..
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to be
chafed and
where they will be of Caurignees examined in the
by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, on 7th May, 1. 1925, at 10 am. Ulaims against the Steamer including those for Cargo short delivered must be presented on the Special Form provided, and must also be submitted within 30 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
Agents. Hongkong, at May, 1995.
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