CHANNEL TUNNEL.
Scheme Would Cost £30,000,000 The project for a Channel tunnel between England and France, revived at intervals during the last 60 years, is again to the fove, says a London correspondent. It has repeatedly been turned down, chiefly on strategic grounds, because such a tunnel might be of use to an invading enemy. This time its- champions hope for better luck. The Imperial Conference In May, it is expected', will set ip i new Empire Defence Committee with Mr S. M. Bruce, Australia's High Commissioner, as chairman. Mr Bruce is thought to be sympathetic to the tunnel idea. The scheme would cost about £30,000,000, and take nearly six years to complete. Sterne 20,000 men would be employed on the job and British industry would benefit by most of the orders for material. Chief of these would be nearly a million tons of steel plates for the tunnel. Passenger receipts, it is claimed, wtould be sufficient to yield a profit of at least 10 per cent, on the capital outlay. The tunnel would cost about £500,000 a year to maintain.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 404, 10 April 1937, Page 2
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181CHANNEL TUNNEL. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 404, 10 April 1937, Page 2
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