CANALS IN ENGLAND.
o ■ ■ ROYAL COMMISSION REFORT. POUR MAIN ROUTES. THE ESTIMATED COST. Receiver! December 30, 9 a.m. LONDON, December 29. The Royal Commission appointed in 1906 to enquire regarding inland navigation in Great Britain recommends tbe appointment of a Central Waterway Board with a view to unifying and transforming the existing canals and waterways in the Birmingham and South Staffordshire districts into four main routes—the Thames, Mersey, Severn and Hum • ber—as the first step in any comprehensive scheme, and suggests a combination of free grants and leans over a long p?nod. In connection with the issue of stock for the acquisition of proper ties, the report estimates that the cost of improvements, excluding the cost of acquisition, will be seventeen and a-half millions, and that after the whole capital expen - diture is completed the annual expenditure will be a million. Messrs J. F. Remmant, M.P., R. C. H. Davidson,' civil engineer, and J. C. Inglis, manager of the Great Western Railway, signed a dissentient report.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9679, 31 December 1909, Page 5
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166CANALS IN ENGLAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9679, 31 December 1909, Page 5
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