CANAL PROJECT
ATLANTIC TO MEDITERRANEAN. ESTIMATED COST £100,000,000. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) " LONDON, April 10. A project, engrossing French engineers tu cut a canal, accommodating ocean liners, from the Atlantic at V er-1 don on the estuary of the Gironde, to La Naiivelle on the Mediterannean, » distance of three hundred miles, of sixteen locks with seventy-two feet drop is proposed. The depth of the canal wdl be forty-four feet, with a width of five hundred led «t the surface, mcreasi„u. to fd() in the neighbourhood of tl.e locks. The average speed through the ( anal is estimated to lie fourteen knots. rpbe cost of ednstmetion is estimated at £100,000,000, while receipts from i» hundred million of tonnage using the canal at t— « ton is erected tn reach £2,000,000 annually. Opponents contend that the canal will not |„, us"d so much as tlf promoters anticipate, because it would not savo l° u g I distances like the Sue/, or -mama canals.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1932, Page 5
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