FRENCH CANAL SCHEME
ATLANTIC TO MEDITERRANEAN [BY CABLE —PBESB ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Recd. April 11, 10 a.m.). LONDON, April 10. A project engrossing French engineers is to cut a canal, accommodating ocean liners from the Atlantic at Verdon on the Estuary of the Gironde, to La Nouvelle on the Mediterranean, a distance of three hundred miles. Sixteen locks, with a seventy-two feet drop are proposed. The depth of the canal will be forty-four feet, with a width of five hundred feet at the surface, increasing to 820 in the neighbourhood of the locks. The average speed through the canal is estimated at fourteen knots. The cost of construction is estimated at a hundred millions sterling. Receipts from a hundred million tonnage using the canal at ten francs a ton, are expected to reach two millions sterling annually. •
Opponents contend that the canal will not be used so much as the promoters anticipate, because it would not save long distances, as the Suez and Panama canals do.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 April 1932, Page 5
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