SOUTH-WEST INDIAN DOCKS.
TO THE EDITOR OF "THE I-REBS." Sir, —I desiro to make a brief comment on tho remarks of your London correspondent in your issue of February loth, to what he puts forward as an insuperable difficulty m tho use of tho South-West Indian IDock. Ho refers to tho doublo bond of tho river Thames precluding vessels of 650 feet in longth from negotiating this bend. 1 have it on tho authority of tho shipping companies that there is no likelihood of vessels of a greater length than 500 feet being used in tho "New Zealand Trade. —Yours, etc., F. J. -HELTON. Wellington, February 28th.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14290, 28 February 1912, Page 12
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