PANAMA CANAL.
ADDITIONAL THIRTY MILLIONS REQUIRED. Received January 15, 8.30 a.m. NEW YORK, January 14. It is reported in Washington that the Panama Canal will cost thirty million sterling above the estimates, owing to revision of plans. Even then, vessels of the Dreadnought class will be unable to pass through the canal. > • (The total length of the canal will be about 46 miles, with a depth of 30 feet. The smallest of the Dreadnoughts is of a displacement of over 18,000 tons. With the work done under De Lesseps, it was expected that the canal would take about nine years to complete, at an additional outlay of £28,000,000.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9029, 16 January 1908, Page 5
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108PANAMA CANAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9029, 16 January 1908, Page 5
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