NEW DOCK YARD

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1928, Page 5

NEW DOCK YARD

AT SINGAPORE. AN ADMIRALTY ANNOUNCEMENT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 27. The Admiralty announces the acceptance of the tender of Messrs Sir John Jackson, Limited, for the construction of a< new dockyard at Singapore, the contract time for completion being seven years. The work 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 west will he the large floating dock with, abreast of it, a small basin in which ships can be berthed alongside the wharf to unload into godowns. Beyond the basin will be the dockyard 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, workshops and all the equipment essential to a modern naval .dockyard. The naval part of the Singapore section is estimated to cost, seven millions seven Hundred and fifty thousand pounds, for which provision was made in the 1928 naval estimates. The figure does not include the cost of the site which was presented to the Navy by the Government of Straits Settlement. Contributions to the cost given as promised include the Federated Malay States, two millions’pounds, New Zealand, one million pounds, and Hong Kong two hundred and fifty thousand pounds. All the projected works were designed at the Admiralty under the superintendency of L. H. Savil, civil engineer-in-ohief to the Admiralty. /