BIG DOCK AT CALCUTTA
OPENED BY VICEROY (United Service.) (Rec. December 30, 5.5 p.m.) Delhi, December 29. The Viceroy opened the new King George dock at Calcutta, providing at present six additional berths and ultimately thirty additional berths. The cost of the scheme hitherto has been eight and a-half crores of rupees. The water area of the dock is 24 per cent, greater than the Gladstone dock, Liverpool. The construction of the first quarter of the full scheme has involved the displacement of two hundred million cubic feet of earth. Poisoning Mystery. ;
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 82, 31 December 1928, Page 8
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