The Archive · 1939

Amherst River

No Danger of Grounding

To the Editor, of the "Nonrm-Cunta Dany News"

Sm.—Your correspondents in the Western. Wetershed. ere overlooking several imiportant- J P b the Amherst is navigable ás far as Keswick Reach and moderately large craft can berth alongside Plumwell Eyot without danger of grounding.

One of the Jocal stevedores tells me that the new wharf being built opposite Columbia Circle Backwater is the logical outcome of the recent P.W.D. dredging operations in that section and, from a génetal surve; it is clear that this work will mai enhance the value of the water-frontage of any property on that bank as well as modifying the navigational difficulties of the rapids at the juncture of the Columbia and Amherst, Yeo. Shanghai, July 27.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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