The contract for the construction of the Blue Nile dam and irrigation works for the London Government has just been secured in open competition by Messrs. L. Pearson' Son (Contracting Dept.) Ld., of Westminster. The value of the work is nearly £4,000,000.
Messrs. Pearson's Chairman is Lord Cowdray, the vice-chairman is Sir Clarendon Hyde -whose authority in finance is well known in City circles: and among the Directors is Sir Ernest Moir whose engineering activities have included the Forth Bridge, Dover Harbour, the tunnels under the Hudson River at New York, and many other works of similar magnitude.
In China Messrs. Pearson constructed the Tao-Ching Railway in Honan and they are associated im the successful design and tender for the Yellow River Bridge with the two Belgian companies whose railway work in China is so well known.
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