SINGAPORE BASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 230, 28 September 1928, Page 7

SINGAPORE BASE.

NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

Admiralty Accepts Tender For Big Construction.

MODERN FORT PLANNED

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 1 p rn.l RUGBY, September 27

The Admiralty announces the acceptance of the tender of Messrs. Sir John Jackson, Limited, for the construction of a new dockyard at Singapore, the contract time for completion being seven years.

The works will be situated on the old strait dividing the island of Singapore from the mainland. The entrance will be from tlie east, and a few miles up will be the large floating dock with abreast of it a small basin in which ships can be berthed alongside the wharf to unload into uodowns.

Beyond the basin will be the dockyard proper with a graving dock to accommodate the largest ships and a wlnirf outside where vessels «m remain atloat at all stages of the tide. It will contain a generating station, workshops and all equipment essential to a modern naval dockyard.

The naval part of the Singapore scheme is estimated to cost £7,750.000. for which provision was made in the 1928 Naval Estimates. This figure does not include the cost of the site, which was presented to the Navy by the Government of the Straits Settlement.

Contributions to the cost, given as promised, include, Federated Malay States, £2,000,000; New Zealand, £1,000,000; and Hongkong. £'250,000. All the projected works were designed at the Admiralty under the superintendence of Mr. L. H. Saville, civil engineer-in-chief to the Admiralty,