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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 10

"Since, the question of torpedo-boat construction has come so prominently forward wo. have secured 450 ft. of extra water frontage at Woolwich, giving us 1450 ft. of land that offers the best shipbuilding, facilities in the harbour," said "Mr. Franki, general manager of Mort's Dock Company, Ltd., Sydney, to the members of the general council and executive committee of the Australian National Defence Loairue, who paid the works a. visit recently. "When Mr. Ksplin was in Sydney I took him all over tho site, snd he was so impressed with it that lie declared ho bad not seen n better one anywhere." Mr. Fraiiki laid a plan, of Woolwich before the visitors, and showed that there will be room to lay down a dozen torpedo-boats or dpstroyers if need-bo. "We have been following the mntter closely," he said, "and when the timo comes we, shall be, prepared to';' undertake the, construction of those vessels if reasonable inducements are forthcoming. Tho vessels are not big—some, indeed, are no InrEjer than the Bine;arra—and their construction will not call for much plant in addition to what the firm has already at command- \