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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17813, 12 July 1923, Page 11

Unobtrusively, the Pacific Cable Board is just now engnged on an undertaking which, apart trom being a great engineering ieat, is gpmg to do much to improve the taeilities tor the transmission ot' the news of the world (writes our Sydney correspondent). It proposes to duplicate the cable system now linking Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Canada, and to this end work has already been commend on the section from Sydney to cSouthport, in Queensland. After the completion of the Sydney-Southport section, the cable steamer Stepnan will proceed to Fiji to commence the Suva-Auckland line.' The length of cable to be laid at the bottom of the sea between Sydney aDd Southport will be 492 miles the greatest depth of the cable between the two points being 2700 ft. The cable carried by the Stephan weighs 4'200 tons. With the two sections completed, the Cable Board will be in a better position to decide as to the duplication of the remaining section, from Suva across to Vancouver. It is hoped that a new class of cable will be then available, affording greater speed in despatching cables.