CO129-578-5 Development of Whampoa Port 13-12-1938 - 11-5-1939 — Page 35

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(11) What is estimated cost of dredging

(a) the 2 bars

(b) the Lintin Plate?

Answer: (a)

(b)

(111)

Answer:

900,000 cu. metres at a coat of $0.83 per cu. metre(?)

About one million dollars (7).

What would be cost of dredging for maintenance?

200,000 au.metres (?) a year at a cost of

0.40

to $0.50 (7) a cu.metre.

4.

other notes record that the transit sheds es designed

would each measure 300 ft. long and 150 ft. wine, and would be

of 2 storeya, 82 ft. lower end 18 ft. upper each, an would

each coat one million dollars (7); and that the existing

binding (now just completed) is formed of steel plate facing,

with tie rods which are anchored to "dead men" (1.e. piles

driven bsek an firm land.

A. F.B.

21/11/1938.