SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY IN CANADA.
The, i^4ed establishment of au exk^ive m Canada tor the British^Government was officially confirmed ptC% aftrli 12, s ay a the Vahconyer. News- Advertiser 1 . • Already contracts ha>ye; been. placed which w*ll be fully €quartp^th ? - ( capacity of the Canadian - shipyards. The approximate total of them is £5,000,000. While tHe existing shortage m tonnage is the immediate causb ofthe'new development, there ,is every, reason *Ho^ regard it as * .ipdvte -flvhich will last after the war, and utilise not only the present" yarife, Wi 'setf&al' new ones, rhe shipping, dontroller, of the British Government TiAs's^ht out a represent*tive, Mr. •James ; J. I 'Bsp!wi, who Is placing, wherever_possible, contracts for new steps and guying already constructed which are on the market. Mr Esplen i 3 operating r&jflugh the Munitions Board at^Ottawe**-.. 1t is understood that ahupi^r of vessels being constructed m Canada for Norwegian interests an-*, to ]& takqp over, and that the, contracts for'Hhe current year arc going to J yards^al Montreal, Toronto, Collingwood, Port Arthur, Vancouver, and Victoria. The ships now being arranged for averageabout 6000 tons, and cost upwards -of- £150,000 each.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14285, 30 April 1917, Page 3
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185SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY IN CANADA. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14285, 30 April 1917, Page 3
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