GIANT RAFTS
One of the most important devices to overcome the shortage of shipping is the construction of giant rafts for timber carrying. Not many weeks ago ono of these structures, displacing 6,(X)0 tons, completed the passage between a Swedish and a Danish port, ;i distance of 450 milos, and so successful was the experiment that it is to be developed. A British firm of importers ha,s ordered two of these timber carriers for .1 raft in-* service across the North Sea, iinrl the United States Bailway Administration placed contracts recently *br forty bargfv. for a regular service on the Mississippi River. These wilJ have a capacity of 2,000 tons each.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17552, 22 April 1919, Page 5
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111GIANT RAFTS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17552, 22 April 1919, Page 5
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