ZAMBESI BRIDGE
THE CONTRACTS SIGNED. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 17. Contracts wore signed to-day for construction by the Cleveland Engineering Co., Ltd., of the bridge across the Zambesi, and some twenty-live miles of railway on the south hank ol the river, to connect the existing lines of the trans-Zambesi railway and the Central Africa Railway. The total contract price is £1.434,000, and the work is expected to take at least three years to complete. It will provide direct communication between Nyasalund and the Port of Beirn.
Extension of the railway to tap Lake Nyasa, which has hitherto been without railway communication to the coast, is also being begun by a new company formed to carry out these schemes. In addition, the Government of Nyasaland are undertaking improvement of the roads of the Protectorate, and of the steamship services on Lake Nyasa. The total cost of ail these enterprises, including the construction of the bridge and the approach railway, is expected to amount to about £3,250,000.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1930, Page 3
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