WATERWAYS OF ENGLAND.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 306, 30 December 1909, Page 5

WATERWAYS OF ENGLAND.

ROYMi COMMISSION'S REPORT.

COS?GKy.SCHEME ADVOCATED

..,/.. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.I ' ' tS^i^otoec;:SO^a.2d a-in:) ■■ '.:■- ■■■'.'■■•■.•■■.■•• london, D ec . $b; '.) The E©yal(!DomnijssiQh appointed,in 1906 to aiiquirje into the inland navigation of Britain recommends the -appointmend; <of a .central waterway iboard wi&h ,a xi&w to unifying aoid rfche t existing canals and v»-aterways m ifche Birmingham <i«d South StaffordniiiJte districts into four :main routes—She Thaisaes, Mersey,, and J3-itn2be.r—ras . a first steje '•in. any eompi!eh.©nsiye .-.seihjem.e, and suggests a ooiribisiation <qf if J^ee grants iano loans or&x <&, Ssjnjg peiSQd in conx nection with !fcli« iissiie or for the facQiaisition oi jpin^peptie^. The report (estimates thai- the cost (flf iilfcproyemeitiifcs, excluding -2fche cost fli ,ac«uisition, w-iil'l he !-?£ -iiiillions, I and itwat after the whole capital exipenditare is cisaiifrlettd the annual expenditure wilß ibe £1^.090^000. 3(£es.srs J. Remsiaiit, al^P., Da,vison (<ei^il engineer) and R. 0. Inglis ager of the Great Western RaJ3jeay) hs*«e signed a dissentient rapori;.