CONTRACT LET FOR HUGE DOCK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18578, 28 September 1928, Page 9

CONTRACT LET FOR HUGE DOCK.

SINGAPORE WORK WILL COST £7,730,000. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received September 28, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, September 27. The Admiraltv announces the acceptance of the tender of Messrs Sir John Jackson, Ltd., for the construction of the new dockyard at Singapore, the contract time for completion being seven years. The works will be situated on the old strait dividing the island of Singapore from the mainland. The entrance will be from the east, and a few miles up will be a large floating dock, with abreast of it a small basin in which ships can be berthed alongside the wharf to unload into godowns. Beyond the basin will be the docky-ard proper, with graving dock to accommodate the largest ships, and a wharf outside where vessels can remain afloat at all states of the tide. It will contain a generating station, workshops and all equipment essential to a modern naval dockyard. The naval part of the Singapore scheme is estimated to cost £7,750,000, for which provision was made in the 1928 Naval Estimates. The figure does not include the cost of the site, which was presented to the Navy bv the Government of the Straits Settlement. Contributions to the cost, given as promised, include: Federated Malav States, £2,000,000; New Zealand, £1,000,000; and Hong Kong, £250,000. All the projected works were designed at the Admiralty under the superintendence of Mr L. 11. Savile, civil engineer-in-chief to the Admiralty. —British Official Wireless.