FASTER CABLING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18908, 25 January 1927, Page 10

FASTER CABLING.

DEVELOPMENTS IN PACIFIC. ELIMINATING HUMAN ELEMENT. [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, January 24. The latest developments in cable telegraphy foreshadow the rapid approach of the day when the tapping of a key in Auckland will produce automatically and almost instantaneously the corresponding signal in London. The installation of automatically operated relaying apparatus in all cable stations and at the connecting points with the land lines will be the means of thus quickly passing on the cable messages, and it will eliminate the human element, which must now be taken into consideration when messages have to be relayed. At the present time, cablegrams from Auckland for Britain by the Pacific Cable Board's cables are relayed by the Board's operators at Suva, and by automatic apparatus at Fanning Island, on to Bamfield, British Columbia, whence they travel on land lines to Halifax. Several automatic relays are required to pass the messages over the Canadian land lines, and a further manual relay is necessary at Halifax, the messages then heing passed through automatic relays to the Post Office- in London. • The next stage in the elimination of the manual relays will be the assembling at Suva of apparatus that will make possible the automatic relaying; of messages- between Auckland and Bamfield, and Sydney and Bamfield. Further possibilities of the nearfuture are the extension of the automatic operation to include Canadian land lines, thus introducing direct transmission between Australia and New Zealand and Montreal. The automatic apparatus installed at Fanning Island is.the latest of its type and embodies all the good qualities of the regenerator system, plus other improvements which were developed last year.