LONDON’S DOCKS

Southland Times, Issue 21194, 22 September 1930, Page 6

LONDON’S DOCKS

THROWN OPEN FOR INSPECTION. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, September IS. Next week the London docks, where sightseers are not usually encouraged, will be open to visitors, who, on payment of a fee in aid of hospital and dockhand charities, will be taken tours round the commercial heart of the Empire. The docks to be visited include the Victoria aud Albert and the King George V. group, which make the largest enclosed dock in the world, ‘covering 245 acres, with twelve miles of quays where 500,000 tons of shipping may lie at one' time and where warehouses and refrigerating plant have accommodation for 3,500,000 carcasses. Visitors will also sec Millwall docks, where a week’s supply of grain for London ■ —24,000 tons —is stored in one granary and cleared at the rate of 500 tons an hour. Twenty-six miles of river, forty-five miles of quayside, and 700 acres of dock water, and many ships in port will be surveyed during the tours.