TO COST SIX MILLIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 148, 20 December 1943, Page 6

TO COST SIX MILLIONS

SYDNEY'S GRAVING DOCK i SYDNEY, December .15. Sydney's graving dock, one of the biggest engineering undertakings in Australian constructional history, is ! estimated to cost £6,750,000 by the time lit is completed next year. This revised estimate more than doubles the original estimate prepared in 1940 by.the London engineer Sir Leopold Savile. The dock will be the largest south of the Equator, and will adequately replace'that lost at Singapore. The work is being undertaken by the Australian Allied Works Council, which in the past two years has spent £56,000,000 on constructional works in the Commonwealth. Its efforts have done much to ■equip Australia not only for the war I but for the post-war world. Some of the council's other major tasks' have been the building of a transhipping port to cost £3,500,000,, making 300 aerodromes, building 200 oil storage depots each holding up to 3,000,000 gallons, constructing 3700 munitions buildings, building vast storehouses, and making camps for hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The council employs 53,000 men, with an annual wages bill of more than £22,000,000. The average weekly earnings of each employee are more than £8. •