HUGE DOCK SCHEME,
FIFTY YEARS AHEAD. LIVERPOOL AND THE CUNARDERS. CHANGE OE PORT FEARED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (Rec. July 8, J0.30 p.m.) London, July 8. The Docks and Harbour Board (Liverpool) has sanctioned tho construction of a dock 1920 feet ill length by 120 feet in width, and estimated to cost £500,000. This is part of an extension scheme costing three and a half millions sterling. which is to bo completed in ten or fifteen years. Tho scheme includes tho constructing of deep-water docks for thq biggest vessels likely to bo built in the next half century.
Tho adoption o.f tho scheme is duo to a fear that tho Mersey may lose the big C'unard liners, to which several other ports have. lately been, offering special inducements.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 5
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127HUGE DOCK SCHEME, Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 5
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