IMPROVING LONDON DOCKS
BIG OUTLAY RECOMMENDED. For improvement of London Dock approaches the Improvements Comrnittee of the London County Council is recommending expenditure of £188,960 on reconstruction of 10 bridges situated at the Hermitage and Wapping entrances, New Gravel Lane and Glamis Road, Stepney; the Surrsy and Lavender locks and the Lady Dock, Bermondsey. and the City Arms Bridge, Poplar. Toward the cost the Port of London Authority h'as agreed to contribute £34,897 and gave the necessary land, and the Minister of Transport has agreed to make road fund grants of from 50 to 75 pe'r cent. of the net cost after deduction of the P.L.A. contribution. The total net cost to the L.C.C. is estimated at £63,221. The Port of London Authority has also agreed to contribute £8000 in respect of maintenance charges, capitalised at 5 per cent., of which it will be relieved all the 10 bridges are reconstructed.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 665, 18 October 1933, Page 3
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151IMPROVING LONDON DOCKS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 665, 18 October 1933, Page 3
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