DOCKS AND DEFENCE.
- ' CANADA'S PLANS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association-Copyright.) Ottawa, October: 31. The Canadian naval sohomo contemplates the fortification of Sydney, Cape Breton, owing to the fact that supplies of coal for tho East Coast have to pass that place. -Foe ports havo made : surveys, with the view of constructing defence works. ; Tho Canadian Government has refnsed to subsidise tho proposed docks at Levis, Canada, and St. John, Now Brunswick, to tho extent (£25,000 per annum) suggested by a recent deputation. The Government; believes that smaller FcdeM assistance will ;be sufficient to enßuro •completion of tho enterprise. [It has boon stated; that tho Government would bd prepared to, pay an annual subsidy equal to 3 per cent.: on tho capital cost, but not to exceed .£9OOO per annum,]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 653, 2 November 1909, Page 5
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127DOCKS AND DEFENCE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 653, 2 November 1909, Page 5
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