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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 16

Around the greater part of the British coast stretches a chain of railway- docks of the .utmost lmpo r tsnsc to the foreign trade of, the country. These great docks . feed, and are fed by, their owners—-thi railways. The gross tonnage of steamships entering and leaving railwhy-owncd docks is over 60,000,000 tons a , year,, while the tonnage of imports and exports aggregates 80,000,000 tons annually. Frose these docks frequent services of railway-owned passenger steamers afford services for both passengers and freight with the Continent, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, both by day and by night. In Britain there are 168 docks, harbours, and wharves,' with a water area of 2459 acres and a quay" - frontage of 550,500 feet, owned by the railway companies. • ! It.has been,estimated that it requires the annual, production of four rubber trees to provide rubber for one motor car tyre. - ; ...