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TELEPHONE CABLE UNDER COOS STRAIT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, May 14. Mr. E. A. Shrimplon, engineor-in-chief of the Tolegrnph Department, leaves for London shortly, and part of his business will bo to malce final arrangements for tho purchase of a subnlarino cable and apparatus to connect the North and South Islands by telephone, It will thus be possible for South Island centres to con.nainicate with Wellington or Auckland by telephone or vice vorsa. Mr. Shrimplon explains that this work will be a large and costly one. Tho cable will weigh .some fifteen tons per nautical mile, and the oost will not be less than ,£IOOO a mile. As the distance is about GO miles, the total capital cost, including apparatus and cost of laying, will easily absorb tho best part of JCIOO.OOO.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 197, 15 May 1920, Page 8
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135A COSTLY WORK Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 197, 15 May 1920, Page 8
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