TELEGRAPH DELAYS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 280, 15 August 1918, Page 7

TELEGRAPH DELAYS

INTERRUPTED THROUGH SNOWFALL

COMMUNICATION RESTORED

A notico was posted at (lie General Post Office yesterday morning, awl communicated to tho newspaper offices, to tho effect that telegraphic communication had boon cut oil' with all_ stations south of Kaikoura and east of Henley, ivhicli meant that all (olographic communication was cut off from Canterbury and'Otngo. Messages soon began to pile up at the telegraph office in tho manner mado familiar to the stair last month. The reports were to Die tiffed that there had licen a. snowfall in tho higher country, but not of the severity of those which gavo tho Department so much trouble thToe weeks ago. The breaks must have .occurred through the failure of the temporary Hues to hold up against the weather and snow. At 11.25 a.m. the lines via Waiau (inland) came to lite, and two "quads'' were soon at work reducing the accumulation of messages. Another "quad'' was puf, in commission at 2 p.m., and helped to lower the pile. Some 300 messages were posted south by the Maori, but even the greater number of those were clicked through when tho work grew less Inst evening. On the West Coast the breakdown is between Bealey and Jackson's, where there appears to have been a fairly heavy fall of snow. Up till last evening there was still no telegraphic communication between Canterbury and Westland.