CO129-578-5 Development of Whampoa Port 13-12-1938 - 11-5-1939 — Page 30

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caring for rain which may arrive or leave by water, rail or highway. Another is a large storage and handling plant for the use of the salt vabelle. & third project is a large transfer wharf for the military authorities, where direct interchange can be elected between water

carriera and those on the rails and the highways. The railroad authorities have had extensive areas set aside for their eventual use as easterly and westerly railroad storage and switching yards, for open-air storage of bulky materials, and for direct transfer between boat

and railroad car of bulk comodities. other industrial

possibilities are a ship building plant with dry docka and machine shops, a steel plant, a locomotive works, and several smaller industries.

Desiņus have been started for an air port

planned for both land and hydro planes, with ample runwaya and water take off areas, and with excellent

highway and railroad connections, and located only about

ten ailes from the business centre of

Very to d few such favourable locations are to be formed elsewhere

in the world,

The harbour navigation has been planned in the foru vi a reat loop so that vessels will not have to turn around anţ where in the main paths of movement. They will pass around an island made by cuttin, a broad changel across the westerly end of the partly submerged bar which separates Collinson Reach from Cambridge Beach. The island which will be formed by the dredgin and fillin would wake a theoretically perfect site for a free Port, li such sa arrange:dent la ever deemed advisable.

The design of the bund is diferent from those in other far eastern cities in that it is lined miong

the water edge with transit sheds and a odowns which are continuous

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