Port of Liverpool Tonnage Increases

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 37, 14 February 1939, Page 5

Port of Liverpool Tonnage Increases

LIVERPOOL —For the second yea in succession an increase of approxi mately 1,900,000 tons of shipping wa handled by Merseyside ports, as reveal pd by 1937 figures issued here. Thesi ligurcs show 15,600,000 tons for 193! is compared with 1-1,500,000 for 193( ind 13,600,000 for 1935. Credit for this big expansion ir trade is given by Sir Richard Holt .’hairman of the Mersey Docks anc Harbour Board, to improve facilities L'or handling cargoes rapidly and ef iciently. In import trade Liverpool rank? Text to London: and in the export oJ British, manufactured goods the port )f Liverpool now handles a large] volume than Glasgow, Southampton Hull, Manchester, Bristol, and Middles □rough all put together. A new' deep water entrance, now under construction will soon be completed at West Water 100 Dock; this will provide similai facilities for coastwise traffic. “ You mustn’t hit little girls—yoi must always treat girls gently,” saic mother, reprovingly. “I'm sorry, mummy,” replied ten year-old Tommy, “that our ideas of lift do not coincide.” Wrong Idea ‘•‘Sir, I have called to ask for you daughter's hand in marriage,” said th< young man. “How much money have you?” rc sponded the father. “Sir,” remarked the suitor, quietly “I do not wish to buy your daughter.’