A meeting of City merchants, traders, and bankers was held
at the Mansion House on Monday to consider the question of remedying the defects of the Port of London. The matter, it will be remembered, has already received the attention of a Royal Commission, which proposed the creation of a Port authority of forty mem be rs,and recommended that the 2'7,000,000 required to carry out the necessary reforms should be put on the rates ; and of a Corporation Committee, which reported in favour of throwing the cost upon goods. The feeling of Monday's meeting was distinctly adverse to the financing of the Port out of the rates, and as distinctly in support of the creation of one Port authority independent of any existing body. As a result of the Conference a Committee of thirty-four was appointed to consider the whole question.
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