EASTERN NIGERIA
THE BENUE RIVER BRIDGE. ENGLISH FIRM GETS CONTRACT. (British Official Wireless.) ’r. Association—By Tcle^raoh—CV)pyri£M ) RUGBY, December 25. Received Dec. 24, at 5.5 p.m.) When the bridge to be built over the Benue River is complete, the Eastern Nigerian railways, connecting Port Harcourt with the Baiichu thiflelds, will ne the longest in Africa. The new enterprise, which will stimulate the development of Northern Nigeria, will cost ahoiu £I,OOO. HOG. and the contract. which .ia« been rdaccd with an English firm, is for a bridge of 15 spans and 2584 ft between abutments.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20291, 27 December 1927, Page 9
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93EASTERN NIGERIA Otago Daily Times, Issue 20291, 27 December 1927, Page 9
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