LARGEST INLAND PORT.
Tlia port of Montreal ranks first among seaports in tlio export of «rain, ishipping in. 1921, in the euvon months' season of navigation,, I.'! 8.500,000 bushels, compared with 84,700,000 bushels from tthe port of Xew York, its nearest rival. in-twelve months, lii tlie same period in 192-2, Montreal delivered 154.721.000 biroliels of wheat and other grains. The present capacity of its grain elevator* in eleven and a half million bushels, and an extension of 1,100,000 bushels is approaching completion. Construction is also well advanced on the lirst unit of jit new elevator, having a capacity of 12,300,000 bushels, and work lias begun lon a second unit of like capacity; There new units are intended to be in operation at. tile opening of the 11124 season of navigation, when tlie total elevator capacity will he 17,000,000 In-shels. .Montreal on the River St. Lawrence is the largest inland port in the world. The city has a population of about 700.000.
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 2, 3 January 1924, Page 3
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161LARGEST INLAND PORT. Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 2, 3 January 1924, Page 3
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