Other works that he undertook were the Barry Dock and Railway, and the Preston Dock, and in addition he carried out the contract for the Buenos Aires Harbour Works with John Hawkshaw and resident engineer James Murray Dobson.
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Shortly before the historic, June 30, 1996, elections to these posts, however, a senior Peronist Senator, Antonio Cafiero, succeeded in limiting the city's autonomy by advancing National Law 24.588, which reserved control of the 25,000-strong Policía Federal (the federally administered city police), the Port of Buenos Aires and other faculties to the national government.
A cousin, James Murray Dobson, became resident engineer of the Buenos Aires harbour works in the 1880s and 1890s.
James Murray Dobson (Plymouth, England 1846 - Pescot, Longfield near Dartford, Kent, England, 27 February 1924) was a principal engineer of the Buenos Aires harbour works in the late 1880s.
The Hotel de Inmigrantes, built in 1906 to accommodate the 100,000 to 200,000 yearly arrivals at the Port of Buenos Aires, was made a National Historic Monument.
In 1903–04 the maddy coast of Wilde received unexpected visitors from the sea, some of the crew members of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition were hosted at the summer residence of Dr W. G. Davis, while their ship the Scotia ran aground in the Rio de la Plata estuary, and was stranded for several days before floating free and being assisted into the port of Buenos Aires by a tug, on 24 December.