THE SUEZ CANAL.
The mean duration of passage for all vessels navigating- the Suez Canal was 16 hours 54 minutes in 1910, as compared with 17 hours 13 minutes in 1909. In the year 1870 26,758 civil and military passengers were carried through the canal; in 1880 the number rose to 98,900, in 1890, to 16i,352, in 1900 to 282,203, and in 1910 it amtounted to 233,978, as against 213,358 in 1909.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 25 September 1912, Page 7
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72THE SUEZ CANAL. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 25 September 1912, Page 7
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