BIG CONTRACT
SECURED BY BRITISH FIRM RECLAMATION PROJECT IN GREECE (Recd This Day, 9 a.m.) LONDON, August 31. The “Daily Telegraph” reports that the Greek Government has placed a £2,250,000 contract for the reclamation of an area with the large Yorkshire firm of Henry Boot and Son. It will be an outstanding engineering feat in one great ayea, the draining of which means the boring of a tunnel 2J miles long. Henry Boot and Son are the only foreign engineering contractors at present working in Greece. The area involved in the Boot contract exceeds , 3,500,000 acres in the Greek provinces of Thessaly, Epirus and Boeotia. The construction is expected to last seven years. A vast area, now under water, will then be reclaimed and will be used for agriculture.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 7
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129BIG CONTRACT Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 7
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