Board has only been engaged on maintenance and routine work. Its foreshore control has been given up and the original policy, to use the mud. dredged in order to build up foreshore land for public pur poses or for sale, has gradually failed, as the reclaimed land has been sold over the Board's head and public work has gone into private hands. The proposals for a Har hour Board or Port Authority, made by the 1921 Committee, have been shelved, despite the obvious fact that, for a considerable part of, the reconstruction period of the New China, the correct Policy would be Jgrcater work on harbour and estuary improvement. However, as stated before, until the Government concedes the taxation and supply authorities a properly constituted Port Authorty or Board, the Conser-fancy Board cun only endeavour to maintain the Whangpoo Channel it has made, and to which its duties are now limited.
It has been stated that, when Mfr. von Heidenstam took over, he hnd tone room, the remnants of an organization, and only a very small staff, and the assets were a 20 ft. channel. He leaves the Board, by virtue of work done under the Provisional Conservancy Agreement of 1912, under his direction, with an efficient organization, built up with the assistance of a succession of jeapable assistants, including his present lieutenants and the heads of departments, housed in com-odious offices in the Customa House, a splendid plant, a channel of 26 to 28 ft, depth, which is more or less the natural' limit, and series' of recommendations and re ports which will enable the authorit fes concerned to take a broad and comprehensive view of the port problem of Shanghai us far as general and technical advice can
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