CO129-578-5 Development of Whampoa Port 13-12-1938 - 11-5-1939 — Page 61

Answer

(a)

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

(b) About one million dollars (?)

(iii) What would be cost of dredging for maintenance? Answer : 200,000 cu. metres (?) a year at a cost of $0.40

to $0.50 (?) a cu. metre.

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Other notes record that the transit sheds as

designed would each measure 300 ft. long and 150 ft. wide, and would be of 2 storeys, 22 feet lower and 12 ft. upper each, and would each cost one million dollars (?); and that

the existing binding (now just completed) is formed of steel

plate facing, with tie rods which are anchored to "dead men" (i.e. piles driven back on firm land).

A.P.B.

21/11/1938

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