THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 15

THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL.

At a recent meeting of the Mersey • Docks and - Harbour Board, it was mentioned that they were proposing to' make a hew' dock • at -the- -Vittoria Wharf, Birkenhead. The dredging at the bar and sea channels was continued, and — ninety-two' million tons of sand had been removed since 1800. The depth was now "twenty-seven feet at low-water spring- tides. The probable cost of their contemplated new works would lx- a little over £4,000.000, and. it would take seven or eight years to complete the works; but they considered the expenditure was wise and necessary to mefet the requirements of business. . 15 ith regard to the controversy continually going on about the position of Liverpool among the ports of the world, Mr. Robt. Gladstone, who presided, thought th(-y might take it as pretty well established that Liverpool had the second place at any rate, if not the first. Lately lie had seen some very interesting figuiys prepared at Washington. The figures referred to the trade of the great poefs of the world, and showed that the trfgle of London was worth £261,000.008. a year;qf Liverpool, £237,000.000, sfcce ; corrected ■ to _ New Yofk, £221,000,000; Hamburg, £ 106.000,(B0; Antwerp, £147,000/100; Marseilles, £B6,-

000,000; Calcutta. £50,000.000; Bombay. £51,000,000; Singapore. £43.000.000; and Sydney, £30.000.000. He thought that showed the position of laverpool in the world’s trade to be very satisfactory. With reference, t<>. the enornyrtn number of passengers—emigrants and ordinary passengers—who arrived and departed from Liverpool in the course of the year, the total was 274,000, of whom 37.000 were cabin passengers. Al lamdon the total was 23,000. including 16.000 cabin passengers, and Southampton 72,0u0, and of these 27.000 were cabin passengers. ♦ ♦ ♦