PANAMA CANAL ROUTE
KINGSTON A FREE PORT. NEW YORK, November 25. (Received Nov. 26, at 8.50 p.m.) Kingston (Jamaica) will be made a free port and port of call for Australian ships sailing via Panama Canal. The docking facilities will be improved.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
Jamaica is a British possession, and Kingston is the capital city, with a population about equal to that of Dunedin. The harbour is said to bo one of the finest in the world for its size—about 10 miles by 24. Jamaica is the nearest of the West Indian islands to the Panama Canal, from, which ft is about 600 miles distant.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17483, 27 November 1918, Page 5
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