PORT OF LONDON.
Mr.T. R.-Toovcy, principal assistant to the,.general manager of the Port of London Authority, and Mr. 11. Lciteb, a member of the authority's commercial department, are. ■at present visiting Australia fbrfthe purpose of making better -known ■the marketing, and distributing facilities oi.the.Port of London.•' In an interview, Mr. Toovey said, that as the manufacture ing industries in England were gradually drifting to the south, London's advantageous 1 position as an industrial as well as a commercial city was more predominant now-than. ever. Statistics for 1927 .showed that London had a-record year. More than 52,500,000 tons net register of shipping entered the port of London, and that figure exceeded by 20,500,000 tons the shipping that entered Liverpool, the next .largest port in Great Britain. London's oversea . trade amounted to £706,000,000, ■which amount exceeded the return from Liverpool by £225,000,000, and was more than two and a half times the value of the combined oversea trade of Hull, Manchester, and Glasgow.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 41, 20 February 1929, Page 12
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161PORT OF LONDON. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 41, 20 February 1929, Page 12
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