The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-02 00:00:00

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But it is almost idle to reply to the arguments
adduced in • favour of the present locality of the
trade in the south, from the fact that no sufficient
means can be devised there to meet the increasing
requirements of the trade. The nature of the sur-
face at the south end of the present docks, which
is on a steep slope, forbids further extension in
that direction, either of yard space for storage, or
of docks. It is true that the Herculaneum Dock
might be added to the existing amount of water
space; but the site upon which it is to be formed
is at present covered over with piled up timber,
which cannot be removed for the want of other
storage room ; and although the Dock Committee
have expended a large sum in the necessary plant,
&c., for its formation, not a pick or a spade can be
got into the ground. Besides, such extension
would involve an increased amount of cartage
upon every load of timber sent off either by canal
or by railway; the cartage to the Wapping Station
of the London and North-Western Railway being
felt as a serious expense, even at present. In this
respect the south is under serious disadvantages as
compared with the north, which has both railway
and canal accommodation with all parts of the
northern and midland counties of England.
We would particularly direct the timber trade,
who seem of late to be losing sight of the advan-
tages, as proved before Parliament, of a project
which two years ago- met with their general appro-
val, to one important consideration, which the north
locality possesses over any of its competitors. We
refer to the fact, that the property available for
nutty

space, storage, yards, and other purposes
connected with the timber trade, is vested in the
hands of one public body, by whom it cannot be
legally worked to forward any other interests except
those of the public at large. The area of the whole
space of upwards of 300 acres, at present in course
of formation, for the accommodation of the timber
and shipbuilding trades, was estimated by Mr. J. B.
Hartley, before the parliamentary committee, to

cost .€352,917, or about 4s. Id. per yard. In order
to provide for contingencies, take the price in round
numbers at ss. We have, then, a rental for floatage
and land-storage space of 3d. a yard, for which
Mr. Bramley-Moore stated in his evidence that it
would be let to the trade. This low charge, let it
be borne in mind, would be a permanent one. It
would not, like that for the land of private individuals,
be advanced when the increase of the trade created a
demand for it. Much more

,ikely than such an
advance would be a reduction, as the result of an
active business. Contrast this with the prices
paying at the south end. Mr. James Smith, when
examined before the committee on the bill, said, " I
have 5000 yards of land for which -I pay Is. 6d. per
'ard per annum. 5000 for which I pay Is. 3d., 5000
_, and 12,000 or 13,000, which is at a greater
distance from the Brunswick Dock, and conse-
quently a heavier cartage, that we get at Bd. per
yard. We have another plot of about 13,000 yards
that does not cost us so much." In reply to a
-stion with respect to the last lot, the witness

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