PORT OF LONDON
IMPRESSIVE FIGURES. 'United Press Association—By Electrn Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, March 31. The .twenty-first report of the Port of London Authority emphasises that London is the most extensive port in the world, extending for sixty-nine miles, and including 170 iniljfs of docks, and wharves, and the docks alone having 732 acres in water area. Some of the oldest docks take vessels drawing 37 feet. London’s overseas trade totals seven hundred- millions sterling annually. Alorc work is brought there than to any port in Britain, while seventy per cent, of Dio •acat is handled at London, and also ninety per cent, of the tea in Britain.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1930, Page 6
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