PACIFIC CABLE.
ANOTHER FAULT LOCATED. [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, September 20. The cable steamer Iris is to sail on Thursday morijing to repair a fault in the Pacific Cable. The fault is in the Norfolk Island-Suva section of the cable, seven or eight miles north of Norfolk Island. If the weather holds fine the Iris is expected to return to Auckland in eight days' time. The Iris has not long returned from repairing a break in the cable between Norfolk Island and New Zealand. On that occasion the cable was found to be completely severed by continuous chafing on the rocky bottom, and it had to be lifted and relaid on a' softer bed.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19111, 21 September 1927, Page 11
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