A big scheme has been launched by the Admiralty at Plymouth in connexion with the naval port of Plymouth.
Eighty acres of land at Wilcove, just above Torpoint, have been purchased from General Sir Reginald Carew as the site of a great oil fuel depot. It is expected that three years will be required to complete the scheme.
So far, 28 huge tanks are planned, but more will be added. A beginning is being made with eighteen. The work begun already includes excavations, for which a considerable number of men were engaged from the local Labour Exchange. As the scheme pro-grosses more labour will be required, while boiler-makers who would otherwise have been discharged are being retained.
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