INDESTRUCTIBLE LONDON

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 72, 9 October 1939, Page 3

INDESTRUCTIBLE LONDON

WORLD'S GREATEST PORT

PLANS NOW COMPLETE

London is now an indestructivo port, thanks to the scheme of con-

trol and protection evolved by the port of London Authority, it is

claimed by Mr W. L. Wriglitson, chairman of the Authority's River

Committee

"We are prepared," lie says, "to carry on whatever may happen.''

The authority have allocated the sum of £250, 000, 000 'for air raid protection to men working the docks system. All vital points have been protected and over }-2 miles o? Frenches are available for refuge from blast and splinters. Over 30,000 workers are being safeguarded in the P.L.A.'s own dock area. while own-.-r,'. of wharves and warehouses for .30 or 40 miles on each b*mk of the Thames 1 have arranged for similar protection for their own c taffs.

'Moorings have been placed 'or about 78 -ships in the lower readies of the Thames. The small craft organisations, with some 10 000 barges and tugs capable ofi handling 1,000,000 tons of cargo, have been organised into a ponl, and should any one dock system be put out of action, all these resources would be at the service of the port. Arrangement? have "iso been made for evacuating ossenlial foodstuffs and dangerous goods.