GREAT VENTURE
SYDNEY'S NEW BRIDGE. | SIX YEARS TO BUILD. TENDER BELOW ESTIMATE. (Received 11.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Cabinet deliberated for three hours before adopting Mr Ball's recommendation to accept the tender of Messrs Dorman, Long and Co., an English firm, for the harbour bridge. The amount of the tender, 4} millions sterling, is less than the estimate of Mr Bradfield. In fabrication and erection the bridge will practically be 100 per cent. Australian. The contractors believe the bridge will be completed in six years. Upwards of 2000 men are to be employed immediately the necessary preliminary works are completed.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 27 February 1924, Page 5
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