This next week. digging will start in the Whangpoo "River as work gots under way to replace buoys 35, 36, and. 37 with the new single pendant type. Those buoys are now the comparatively out-dated four chain type each with a hook on the end that.catches hold to the bottom of the river, 'The new "A" type 1s anchored. by an eluht-tpn cast iron sinker which isto be laid in a, dredged hole 24 feet in depth. 'The pyramid shape of the sinker, and' its depth below the bottom of the. river gives the buoy tremendous resistance. which can withhold the pull of even the biggest linets that call at Shanghai, Many of the four-anchor type of buoys have already been converted into the single pendant type, and only a few have to be'changed. It chas been over a year since the last changes were made.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.