THE PORT OF LONDON.
RECOMMENDATIONS OF A
ROYAL COMMISSION.
Press-Association. Electric Telegraph. Copyright.
London, June 20.
The Eoyal Commission appointed to enquire into shipping charges at the port of London recommends that a single authority, consisting of nomin ated and elected members, should control the port, and should supersede the Thames Conservancy, the Board of Trinity House, the Watermen's Company, and other bodies now exercising jurisdiction over the river.
The new authority, the Commission recommends, should purchase docks and warehouses for sale or lease, spending in ten years two and a^half millions on improving the gates, and four and a-half millions on improving the docks themselves.
The London County Council or the city should be largely represented on the Board, on furnishing capital for river improvement and guaranteeing interest on port stock issued to shareholders of the dock companies.
The Commission further recommends that a uniform charge of a shilling a ton shall be made on all ships, and that additional revenue shall be raised by dues on goods landed.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 144, 23 June 1902, Page 2
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