PACIFIC CABLE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29609, 4 September 1961, Page 10

PACIFIC CABLE

Planning Well Advanced (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 1. Planning for the Pacific section of the projected Commonwealth round-the-world cable was well advanced. Sir Gordon Radley, a director of the English Electric Company and the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, said yesterday. - Sir Gordon Radley was addressing the engineering section of the British Association for the A4vancement of Science’s annual meeting at Norwich, Norfolk, on “world communications.” He said the Pacific section would provide transmission bands in each direction over the sections Vancouver-Auck-land-Sydney. When completed it would provide telephone, telegraph, picture telegraph and telex facilities between the countries where it landed, and to other countries by short radio spurs. It would not transmit television, he said. “A landing in the Hawaiian group of islands is planned and this will provide a convenient point for interchange of traffic between the Commonwealth system and an American route across the Pacific,” Sir Gordon Radley said. , He said that it was possible the first transoceanic cable with transistor amplifiers was "not many years distant.” "Very rapid” progress was being made in transitor technology.

Sikkim Progresses.—The kingdom of Sikkim in the Himalayan region now has a population of 161.080, an in: crease of about 17 per cent, during 10 years. With an area of 2744 square miles, the density of population now is 59 persons to one square mile.—Gangtok, Sikkim.