New Fish Dock for Grimsby

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7246, 28 August 1933, Page 8

New Fish Dock for Grimsby

IMPULSE TO INDUSTRY. RUGBY, August 19. Rapid progress is being made towards the completion of the £1,500,000 development scheme, promoted by the Grimsby Corporation and the London and North-eastern Railway, for a new fish dock at Grimsby which was a small viiJage 70 years age, an! today lias a population of 100,000. It i; hoped that, the dock, which will be an important factor in expenditing the marketing and dispatch of fish to au parts of the United Kingdom, will be ready for general traffic by the end of 1934. Tho scheme, which provides all the latest facilities for coaling, docking, and loading includes a slipway yard to accommodate fish trawlers, and the excavation from the dock is oemg deposited behind the river embank-

ment to form a reclaimed area for coal slings and industrial sites. To facilitate the work an embank*, ment one and quarter miles long has been constructed, cutting off a whole site of 175 acres from sea. It is expected that the completion will give a new impulse to the fishing industry,

already assisted this year by tho Government scheme for regulating supplies under the Seafishing Industry' Act of July, 1933.