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HONGKONG METHOBOLOGICAL

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If a Londoner sat for twenty-four hoves on the riverside below Gravesend he would see 1,000 vessels come and go-- barges and tugs, coasters and tramps, great cargo-lipers and passenger ships. And that would remind him of what he does not always remember-that London is the biggest port in the world, “Over 42,000,000 tons of shipping paised in and out of London last year.

That is 3,000,000 more tons than in the best year before the war. In eleven years the trade, of the docks and river bda increased by a tonnage greater than a whole year's trade in many a well- known port. But, though the ships come thick and fast, London Ends accomoda. tion for them all. She is ever remodel ling, extending and adding to her docks.

Four yeare ago she opened the King George V. Dock to the south of the Vie toria and Albert Docks. The three are ronnected, and together form the largest sheet of „dock water in the world, 215 acres in extent. But a dock cannot be measured by its water area alone. There are the quays. warehouses and sidings, and counting these, the area of the three docks is 10 acresently twice as large as the City of London,

And that is but out of the ports with- in the Port of London. There are hali a dozen others all changing and growing with the years.

Reconstruction has been in hand for same time at the Surrey Commercial! Docks, and is now nearly complete. Here, hear where London had her first dock, three timber-punds have been thrown to gether to make a new basin.

This new dock is at present approached through the old entrance, but some day a few and direct entrance may be made from the river, and then the dock will be given a depth of 35 feet. For the Surrey Commercial is a port of big ships. Steamers of well over 10,000 tons come up the river to the Greenland lock unly three miles. below London Bridge." Yet there are many Londoders who have never seen them."

Next year beginning will be made with the reconstruction of the West India and Millwall Docks. Here four docks lie parallel across the loop of the Isle of Dogs. The southernmost, the Millwall, thrusts up a long arm towards the others, but is not connected with then. The arm is now to be extended to cut through the South Docks, the West India Import Dock. All four will then be in communication. and ships will be able to pass into any one of them through the Millwall entrance.

This will allow the western lock to West India South Dock to be closed for re- building. The dock itself will be ex- tended westwards at the same time to take in the part of the basin within the present lock" These works will neces- sitate a deviation, of the railway down to North Greenwich, ".

At Tilbury changes are shortly to be nade that will help to give London better passenger facilities than she has at pre- bent. The lack of a deep-water landing" stage "to which a liner can come at any state of the tide has made the landing and embarkation af passengers and their baggage difficult and tedious. But such It will be a stage is now to be built. long enough to take the largest liner using the port and to leave a berth over for the Gravesend ferry. And. at the same time as the Port Authority builds the stage the London, Midland and Scottish Railway will reconstruct, the station alongside.

Other work soon to be put in hand at Tilbury is the making of a new dry dock 750 feet long, with room for ex- tension up to 1,000 feet. And plans are ready for the making of a lock higher up the river than the present entrance. The Northfleet Reach above Tilbury Ness! is wider than the Gravesend Reach be- low, and ships using the new entrance will have the advantage "of slack' water and fewer currents.

Almost as necessary As the landing stage at Tilbury is a pier near the Tower. This is badly wanted for the summer service down to Thanet by water. The Old Swan Pier inside London Bridge paesents many difficulties, and the next pier that the steamers can use is as far down as Greenwich.

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The Tower Pier may come in time, for London is a port that looks after her traffic; no other port in the world does. quite so much as she does for the goods. she handle. She does not only offer quays; she offers a convenient market as well. It may be said, perhaps, tha

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GATHERING IN GLASGOW NEXT JUNE.

“Besides the Imperial Conference of Scottish people, from all parts of the And she does not believe in handt of her own making, and sugar, of ber

Empire, and the holding of a bazaar îp own refining. And tea, as the world mouth business, importing only a little drinks it, is to some extent a London

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of the question of establishing a Celtic So with many other things that find goods of all kinds, and she keeps large.

College in Scotland. The establishment stocks of everything except perhaps their way to far laads. They have pass It is proposed to hold a great confor- of a centre of Gaelic culture. somewhere cotton. It hardly matters what you through the greatest port in the ence of Gaels from all parts of the in the Gaidhealtachd," says the Duke-a- want, she has it ready for sale. And the world; the knowledgeable old Port of Empire in Glasgow, next June, of which letter, "han become one of the great London that, in handling this nod that, the Duke of Atholl will be president frambitions of An Comunn, While it may world knows that and comes to buy,

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plans for developing and strengthening be malo by establishing an annual sum, them on to the far corners of the globis, That is where London differs from the movement for the preservation of mer school, which, if carefully fostered, Some may think that she exports little other ports. She doesn't just lift craten Caclie are announced by the Duke and would gradually develop into a of her own goods, but only stuff that out of holes into trucks. She takes tre-Mr. Angas Robertson, the well-known College, in which Celtic, literature i comes to her from elsewhere. But she mendous and expert interest in the con- president of An Commn Gaidhealach sad art would receive continuou

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