SINGAPORE DOCKYARD

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1928, Page 6

SINGAPORE DOCKYARD

ADMIRALTY ACCEPTS TENDER (Official Wireless.) RUGBY,. Sept. 27. • The Admiralty announces its acceptance of the teridei’ of Messrs Sir John Jackson, Limited, for the construction- of the new dockyard at Singapore, the contract time for completion being seven years. The works will be situated on the old strait dividing the Island of Singapore from the mainland. The entrance will be from the east, and a few miles Up will be the large floating dock, with abreast of it a small basin in which ships can be berthed alongside the wharf to unload into the godowns.

Beyond the basin will be the dock|yard proper, with a graving dock to accommodate the largest ships, and a wharf outside, where vessels can remain afloat at all states of the tide. It will contain a generating station, (workshop, and all equipment essential /to a modern naval dockyard. I The naval part of the Singapore I scheme is estimated to cost £7,750,000, for which provision was made in the 1928 naval estimates. This figure does not include the cost of the site, which was presented to the navy by the Government of the Straits Settlement. Contributions to the cost, given as promised, include the Federal Malay States, £2,000,000; New Zealand £1,000,000 and Hong Kong £250,000. All the projected works were designed at the Admiralty under the superintendence of Mr. L. H. Saville, Civil Engineer-in-Chief to the Admiralty.