The railway age · Harbour and pier · Railway · Village life
'Silting made the pier useless': the extension is dropped
4 April 1900 (22 March 1900 old style) Proven
Introducing the bill, Prime Minister Theotokis told parliament that the bottom of the bay and the silting at Myloi made a longer pier useless. He added that the place was so unhealthy that, although the railway had come years before, no settlement of any size had grown up there.
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- Bill «Σχέδιον νόμου περὶ ἐκτελεστέων ἔργων … ἐν τῷ λιμένι τοῦ Ναυπλίου … πρὸς ἀντικατάστασιν τῶν ἔργων διὰ τὴν προέκτασιν τῆς ἀποβάθρας Μύλων», submitted 22-3-1900 (o.s.), pp. 543–545, annex nr. 208 Open (opens in a new tab)
- Ἐφημερὶς τῶν Συζητήσεων τῆς Βουλῆς, sitting 48, 22-3-1900 (o.s.)
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