PORT ECONOMICS
warehouses and sheds were constructed during the war
which were never used or, at any rate, have ceased to be
used, and a large number of these are still either empty or
only partly utilized. Unfortunately, questions of payment
and rent arise, and there is competition with ports and
depots overseas, where the desire, perhaps not unnaturally,
 prevails to retain storage until the goods are actually
sold and despatched. Still, the matter is of sufficiently
vital importance to call for very serious and attentive
consideration.

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