RIVER THAMES.
PORT PIOLTS ALARMED. CHANNEL MAY BE CLOSED. Received November 7. 0.20 a.in. LONDON, Nov. 6. The Port of London pilots are alarmed at the mud dredged from the docks in 'the upper reaches of the Thames being dumped in a black deep reach 40 miles below Gravesend. They declare that the channel is shoaling and becoming' dangerous to navigation, and that within five years the Thames will lie closed unless the mud is dumped elsewhere.—Sydney Sun cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 287, 7 November 1925, Page 9
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79RIVER THAMES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 287, 7 November 1925, Page 9
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