BEAUTY IN DESERT.
ERECTION OF NEW TOWN. SUBURB FOR PORT SAID. LONDON, December 21. Making "the desert blossom as a rose," is the Port Said "Times'" correspondent's description of the new town of Port Fuad, on the Suez Canal, opposite Port Said. The town is named in honour of King Fuad, who will formally inaugurate it to-morrow. Port Fuad hadits genesis in the decision of the Suez Canal Company to erect a workshop on the Asiatic bank, utilising buildings used in war-time as a hospital. Pleasant villas among gardens will be erected for the staff, and there ■will be public gardens with flower beds and shady avenues. It is proposed that Port Fuad should be the terminus of the Palestine railway, instead of Kantara, and it is hoped that it will become the residential quarter of Port Said and a pleasure resort. Port Said, wnich is on , the west side of the canal, is situated on a desolate strip of land between Lake Menzaleh and the Mediterranean. King Fuad succeeded his brother Hussein Kamel as Sultan of Egypt in 1917. He is noted for his progressive views and broad-minded ideas.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 303, 22 December 1926, Page 7
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