TELEPHONE CABLE SERVICE.
v *- (SPECIAL TO "THE F2ESS.") _. WELLINGTON, May 2. Increasing ute is.'being* made of . the telephone cable across Cook Strait, which was laid recently and hag provided a new communication facility for about a month past. Ihe average number of calls ■ being made daily from Wellington to Blenheim and Nelson and district is between thirty and thirty-five,-and; it is expected that the patronage will . increase considerably when the existence of the new. service becomes better known, and when the facility is extended to' centres north of Auckland, and in other parts of. the South Island.. Pending completion of ,» section of cable line at the other side of the Strait, people north of Wellington are unable to maie use of the new cable yet, but this work should be finished in a few month, when communication will be possible between any centre in the North Island with any centre in the South Isltind. ,
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18681, 3 May 1926, Page 12
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