The A.P.C. are only able to bring in their ships by utilizing the tides, arriving alongside just before high water. "We ought to be able to bring our ships alongside at any time," the official emphasized, "and utilizing the tides handicaps us to 2 considerable extent." In addition, it has been found necessary to plac extra pontoon alongside the whi Needless to say, the situation causing the company considerable anxiety, not to say expense. The company is only able to maintain 24 feet instead of the specified 27.
On application to the Conservancy Board, local shipping companies are informed that it is impossible to carry out dredging, as the apparatus is in the hands of the Japanese. One such letter was shown. to the "North-China Daily News" in reply.to a request by a local shipping company for the dredging of their wharves, Dredging is at a complete standstill, While the "natural bed" of the Whangpoo is more or less normal, those wharves situated out of the "natural bed" of the river are being placed in a serious position through silting, Wharves both on the Pootung and Hongkew sides which are not adjacent to the "natural bed" are silting up, and the position is especially serious around The Point. The wharf manager of Holts Wharf stated that whereas that wharf had not been seriously affected, owing to the fact that private dredging apparatus was used, and that the wharf was adjoining the "natural bed" of the. river, other wharves not so fortunately placed were in a far less happy position,
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