Two more enormous hauls for the Treasury were announced yesterday. A further £6,000,000 has been paid on account of dues from the late Sir John Ellerman's estate, making £14, 600,000 in all. But more is expected. When Sic John Ellerman died his fortune was broadly estimated at £30,000,000, The opening of Silvertown Way the now two-mile road leading to the London Docks, which has been built at a cost of £2,896,000, has not attracted the attention it would have got if it had led westwards or northwards, Then, of course, its praises would have been chanted by all the motoring correspondents in the kinydom and the tragic death-roll would have shot up by 25 por cent. in Silvertown Way merely exists for the greater ease of transporting about £400,000,000 pounds worth of merchandise annually. Besides being useful, it Is a noble accomplishment, running very straight and broad, sometimes at much higher levels than surrounding streets and thus for the first time opening up a view of the docks themselves and of the tall ships lying in them.
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