PROGRESS OF SHIPPING
9g : ,E.Ndj-ISH' PORT IMPROVED. r WORK AT SOUTHAMPTON. " : ,RUGBY, April 14. ; ; deep water channel into South- , v ampton, which is 1000 feet wide and 85 Upyfeet! deep at low 7 water, at present : :'r£ .inarroms to 600 feet from Fawley {'-Beacon to the docks. Witiiin a iew •' -jjveeks will begin to give the channel a uniform width of 1000 , Ujeet.' The work will cost £‘240,000. This, is part of the scheme for pre■}?s .paring the port to receive bigger liners. Work will also begin shortly on the , new dock to hold the 73,000- : /i'. itdn '/.Cuu^rdct. now under construction V?'. : ::This dock .will be 800 feet long, 135 o/CJpet,wideb and 45 feet deep.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1931, Page 3
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116PROGRESS OF SHIPPING Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1931, Page 3
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