MAMMOTH CONTRACT.
SECURED BY DUTCH FIRM. HARBOUR RECONSTRUCTION AT THE CAPE. OUTLAY OF MILLIONS INVOLVED. CAPE TOWN, November 27. The Dutch firm of Hollandsche Anneming Matechappij were successful, with a contract price of £1,125,262, for the first stage of the reconstruction of Cape Town Harbour. There were three British and seven French tenderers.
The work will occupy 3J years and will cost between £3,000,000 and £6,000,000. It will result in the creation of a new city with wide boulevards, modern buildings, a new railway station, and the largest docks in the Southern Hemisphere, on land reclaimed from the sea.
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Wairarapa Age, 30 November 1937, Page 5
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