NEW PACIFIC CABLE.
60DTHEEN PROPOSAL CONDEMNED. (By Telegraph.—Presa Association.) WELLEs-GTOK, Thursday. A letter front the Pacific Cable Board, letting ont ita objection to the proposal to lay a new cable between Melbourne Mi Bluff, instead of Sydney and "Auckaai, has been received by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce through the *"*■* 3«partmeiit The Board states tort the length of cable required would ™ much increased, and access to the "Mm Pacific cable via the new cable *™a be considerably reduced if the «H of the new cable was at Melbourne. t ß '? e of interruption to the SM the South Island, would be £*»&* lons land lines across the Aus£tan Continent. Another objection «Utt»t a second costly cable e=UiblishS ? WOuld be necessitated. £d^L*Tf aMe tatormrtion also su£ the sea floor between Bluff g* "W « cable. 2rmS^* M the P°«anrtv of keep'the South »• s£%! for wnsideraiion of Telegraph Department
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 23, 26 January 1912, Page 7
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145NEW PACIFIC CABLE. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 23, 26 January 1912, Page 7
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