BRITISH FIRM’S CONTRACT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 82, 6 April 1929, Page 9

BRITISH FIRM’S CONTRACT

LAND RECLAMATION IN GREECE As the outcome of tenders submitted nearly a year ago, Henry Boot and •Sons, Limited, public works contractors, of fcjhellield, have secured a contract of about £IO,UUU,OOO for the reclamation and irrigation of vast areas of land for agricultural purposes. Mr Charles Buot, th c head of the firm, stated that early in 19.3 U the firm will be purchasing plant and maclii-i--ery for the work running into hundreds] of thousands of pounds. Mr Boot added that he had been Hi negotiation with the Greek Govern ] nient since th e early part of 1928, and he had spent nine mouths of last year in Greece in that connection. “1 met M. Venizclos. the Greek Premier, hi Paris last .September,” he said, “and it was then that I signed with him i the final agreement placing with my firm a contract for carrying out constructional works in that country. The value of that contract is in the neighbourhood of £19,000,000, and the work will be spread over ten years. When I left Greece last December, having returned there after the Paris agreement, I had settled practically all the details except for a few minor matters of finance and some questions relating to the period over which the work will be executed. Dr. Christomanos, Die Minister of Communications, has tho matter in hand, and I have had long conversations with him. During rhe next two months we shall begin the work of survey. A year hence we should be in a position to start ac’ucl 1 work which will probably go on till ■ 1940. and orders for the whole of the jplant and contractors’ machinery will be placed within the first two years of onr operations. ”