Harbour Master Complains of Accumulation a meeting of the Works Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Council held on March 22, a letter addressed to the Commissioner of Public Works by the" Acting. Har-our Master was submitted, in which attention was drawn to the congestion and condition of mooring facilities along the Bund, brought about by the hostilities which In his opinion constituted a definite danger to shipping which "should not overlooked, The Acting Harbour Master pointed out that- numbers of fraft or vessels lie idle along the Bund pontoons on one excuse oF another, and many take an unneces= sarily long time in discharging their cargo, with the result that" other raft requiring landing facilities are compelled to secure on the channel side of the idle craft to walt their turn for work; unnecessary eongestion being thus continually preserved, He also pointed out that no ac~ cumulation of craft took place along the French Bund. 'This, he con= sidered, was due in a large degree to the' existence of the municipal wharfage dues which vessels. usin the French Bund frontage ave called upon to pay. The immediate result of this was that al) craft and other vessels, except steamers, flocked to the Settlement Bund, where there fare no wharfage dues, In order to relieve this congestion and {0 diminish the dangerous strain the pontoon moorings caused there by, the Acting Harbour Master suggested that a system of wharfage dues be Introduced on lines similar to that in force at the French Bund.
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