Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport. – in the House of Commons on 19 March 1929.
Lieut-Colonel Wilfrid Ashley
, New Forest and Christchurch
No. So far as the information available goes—I am speaking from recollection—it would cost from £40,000,000 to £50,000,000, and, from all the information I have so far received, there would be no considerable volume of shipping using it if it were built.
