CABLE IN PACIFIC
Seacom Ready For Laying
(N Z Press Assn—Copyright) SYDNEY, June 29 The first section of a submarine telephone cable, to be operated by New Zealand, Australia, Britain. Canada and Malaysia will be laid this week. It is the Commonwealth-South-east Asia cable, part of the Commonwealth’s new global cable which has been under construction for more than a year. The government cable ship, Mercury, will lay 670 miles of the 2000-mile cable between Singapore, Jesselton (Sabah) and Hong Kong. The Mercury will lay from Jesselton towards Singapore for about a week, when another British cable-layer, the Monarch, will take over.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30480, 30 June 1964, Page 13
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