BRIDGE TO COST £3,000,000
CROSSING OF ZAMBESI.
SECOND LONGEST IN WORLD.
By Telegraph-Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 15. The Colonial Office is issuing a contract for the bridge over the Zambesi River costing more than £3,000,000. The work will give a big impetus to the Steel trade in North England. The bridge will be two and a-quarter miles long° thus being the second longest in the° world, one in India being 100 ft longer. •/ The bridge is being built by tire British and Portuguese Governments and becomes Portuguese property at the end of 100 years.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1930, Page 7
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