Board is one of the few institutions of which practically no one ever speaks except in paris and deservedly. Nineteen years ago there was a passing spasm of excitement over the criticisms levelled by some German engineers at the late Mr. de Rijke's plan. But these passed; Mr. de like kept on serenely with his work and, from that May mors ing' in 1909, when H. M. Astrea, drawing if we recolle rightly 22ft and with nearly another 2ft to spare, steamed up the new (formerly the old Junk) channel, the work has.proved itself a splendid success. There is as much water now in the channel at low tide as the Astrea found at high, and Mr. de Rijke's anticipations of the result of his bundings and training walls, and artificial dredge ing and natural scour have been triumphantly fulfilled. numerous publications which the Whangpoo Conservancy have issued from time to time. Among these the, newly published fourth edition of "The Port of Shanghai" really ought to be in the ands of every business man in the place. The amount of in-Formation' it contains could aot otherwise be obtained except by hunting through several difterent works of reference.—How many people could give offhand the length of the International Bund (not counting the gardens) and say whether it or the French Bund is the longer? The former measures 3,000ft., the latter 3,800, Not a few, we think, will be surprised at the last figure. Again, how many residents could quote' the names and numbers of our larger shipbuilding con cerns and of available "docks Among the latter it may be noted that there are some of fair Jength and breadth, but the depth of water on the sills is quite inadequate to the draught of ships now coming here. Attention was recently called to this point by a shipping correspondent and it will certainly need caring for in the near future. It is regrettable, too, that ships must go for coal to Hongkong or Japan, Imported coal_must be brought anything from 500 to 800 miles over the sea, The book speaks doubtfully of the quality of Kiangsi, Anhui and Kiangsu coal apart from any question of the getting 2t her but one would like to have the point dealt with scientifically. There is, we believe, no lack of coal in the Yangtze Valley, and, if it is utilizable, the question of bringing it here is merely one of settling matters with the coal The most important section of the book deals with cargo movements in the port and the total volume or weight of cargo. imported and exported diving the year, This has never been given elsewhere before and has been worked out from the detailed tables of the trade returns for the years 1913, 1922, 1923 and 1924. The importance of this information as bearing on the requirements along the water front of deep-draught vessels and of coastal and river steam: ers—the cargo ied by cad being cavetully differentiated—ix obvious. The ratio of cargo carried to ships entered and cleared is higher for river and coastal steamers than for the long distance shipping. " A greater number of large ocean vessels are now calling al Shanghai, we read, "and are no! able to set cargo for the port o1 out of the port to the same tent as in former days." But thi general showing is respectable Again, it is interesting to reac ile the total frontage o both sides of the river within the Harbour Limits comprise: about 108,000ft, only some 26, court a Joped for shipping and the transfer of caro, Mos of the remainder is utilized fo industrial salle part for public or private us and a great part undeveloped. The volume of cargo passing) over the wharfage was 210 ton: per foot in 1913 and 285 tons 1924, But when we lump in the local movements due to thy peculiarities of the port the lat ter figure rises to 250. tons which in all civeumstanees mus be considered quite good. Thu hook goes on to suggest diver improvements in cargo-handling We wonder whether anyone ha: thought of introducing the Eng draught horse. There ha recently been a great revival i him at Home and it is foun that not only for farm work, bu for urban use, in Liverpool 10 stance, within a radius of fiv or six miles which is all tha city work would require, he i actually about half as expense a motor lorry. The exae figures are that cargo which i cost a lorry fifteen shillings po ton to move in Liverpool, coul
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