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NEW! HARBOUR AT CAPE TOWN. (United Press Association—Copyright.) CAPE TOWN, November 27. A Dutch firm, the Hollandsehe Anneming Mateclnippij, was successful, with a price of £1,125,262, in gaining the contract for the first stage of the reconstruction of Cape Town harbour. There were three British and seven French tenderers. The work will occupy three and a half years, and will cost £3,000,000 to £6,000,000. It will result in the creation of a new city, with wide boulevards, modern buildings, a new railway station, and the largest docks in the southern hemisphere, all on land reclaimed from the sea.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 42, 29 November 1937, Page 5
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