29 DECEMBER 1917, Page 18

The Court of Common Council of the City of London

sends a copy of a Report adopted by the Court on the canal problem. The Court recommends the transfer of all our inland waterways to a central body like the Port of London Authority, on the ground that the "multiplicity of different companies or authorities, controlling systems of various lengths and dimensions, with a diversity of character and interest, and an entire absence of any uniformity of rates or conditions of traffic," prevents the canals from being used to the full or developed as they ought to be. Traders are being urged louse the canals no as to relieve the congestion on the railways, and the importance of the canal question is thus being generally realized at last.