BRITISH PORTS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20903, 10 July 1933, Page 10

BRITISH PORTS.

♦ ... l - WORK OF DEVELOPMENT DESCRIBED. | To advertise facilities offered ft* the shipping trade and for industrial development, boards and railways working for the advancement of the ports of Great Britain publish attractive booklets which are particularly interesting to New Zealanders. Each booklet might be described as a «u geography of the district it covers, alia is filled with remarkable pictures a» y plans which must make readers ui the Dominions realise the great volume of shipping handled by British port* .< and the enormous population they , serve. ■ ... The advancement of the shipping trade of Great Britain is to a great extent due to the remarkable activities of development boards and committees which continually look after the interests of their ports. In this work they have the co-operation « the railways, and are able to produce publications which, although primarily intended to be advertising matter, are really attractive books which would be valuable in a library or a schooL "The City and Port of Hull," issued under the authority of the Hull Development Committee, sets out not only the commercial aspects of the great city of Hull and its port, but gives also its interesting history and t .. description of its churches and uni- r versity, with pictures which would hold a New Zealander's attention for at least half an hour. The Tees district development board has issued a booklet similar to the one describing Hull, but devoted wholly to the commercial facilities of the district. "Ports of the London and NorthEastern Railway, 1933," is probably the most interesting of the three booklet* received from the representatives « the railway. It gives a description and a plan of each port which the railway touehes. A great development in th« fishing industry is foreseen in the construction of the new fish dock ** Grimsby, it says, and this is an indication of the great strides which are being made in keeping the facilities at the ports level with present-day «•' qulrements. All three of these publications of ; do a great deal for the advance of tW ,% districts they describe, and must belP * also to encourage the even greater d*» < velopment of Great Britain's in**" >. trial areas. "