LONDON'S AIRPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1936, Page 5

LONDON'S AIRPORT.

CROYDON'S GROWTH. ONE OF THE SIX BIG PORTS. (Special—By Airmail.) LONDON, December 28. Croydon airport now handles more passengers than the shipping port of Liverpool or the Port of London. This year Croydon has become the sixth passenger port of the Kingdom. This fact will be revealed in a report to be issued early in the New Year. Twenty thousand foreigners landed at Croydon this year. British air stations are to be granted further facilities for non-passport excursions, and will obtain the same privileges in this respect as the shipping companies. There will be air non-pass-port excursons to all parts of Europe. Liverpool, ten years ago—when it handled the cream of the trans-Atlantic passenger traffic—second only to London, ranks to-day tenth among passenger ports. There is to be an attempt to persuade the Cunard-White Star Company to return to Liverpool some of the liners transferred to Southampton. Southampton to-day claims most of the trans-Atlantic traffic, and the greatest number of cruising liners leave from there. Again, foreign business men cannot afford to travel from the north to London. Many industries have moved southward, and they are better suited by southern ports. The Port of London is the loading cargo port of the world. The ten leading passenger ports to Britain are Dover, Harwich, Southampton, Folkestone, Newhavon, Croydon, Port of London, Plymouth, Liverpool, and the Tyne.