SOME TYPICAL PORTS /
appliances. The practice in regard to port traffic is some-
what as follows. Imported goods arriving by steamer
are generally discharged first into transit shed on the
wharf, where they are entitled to seven days’ free storage
(an excessive allowance from several points of view, which
has given occasion for criticism), unless they have been
stowed specially for direct transhipment overside. Or-
dinarily such goods, after landing, pass through the hands
of five or six intermediate dealers before they reach the
consumer or are re-shipped. Consignments for export,
therefore, are rarely in any considerable bulk, but mainly
in small lots collected from a number of points.

Of the value of merchandise imported during 1923,
65 per cent was borne principally by coasting steamer and
35 per cent by ocean-going steamer. Similarly, of the
value of merchandise exported during the same year,
84 per cent was borne by coasting steamer and 16 per cent
by ocean-going steamer.

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