The construction of this dock will probably cost between a million and a million and a half sterling and the value of the contract to Hongkong can easily be imagined.
It is thought in some' circles that Hongkong has a distinct chance of getting the work for the simple rea son that any firm at home would have to take into consideration the immense job of towing this dock to Singapore by way of the Cape as it would be far too big to come through Suez.
Having regard to the fact of Hongkong's tremendous gift towards the Singapore scheme and of the boy cott it would not be out of place for the Imperial Government to specially consider the Hongkong tender. "It is understood that if the contract came to Hongkong it would mean between two and three year's work—"S. C, M. Post."
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