NEW HARBOUR AT HAIFA
GREAT BRITISH ENTERPRISE THE OFFICIAL OPENING (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, October SI. The magnificent new harbour of Haifa, the first to be constructed in Palestine since King Herod built the port of Ca;sarea in honour of his Imperial patron, was formally Opened today. It transforms an unprotected roadstead into the finest harbour in the Levant. Under the British rule Palestine has regained its pre-eminence as a trading centre and as a highway joining Western Asia with Northern Africa. Palestine is actually one of the most prosperous countries in the world to-day, and Haifa is the nerve centre of its commercial development. CEREMONIAL DISPENSED WITH. JERUSALEM, October 31. " Owing to the tension ceremonial was dispensed with in connection with the official opening of the magnificent new harbour at Haifa, constructed by British enterprise at a cost of £1,250,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 9
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