PACIFIC CABLE
WORK OF DUPLICATION By Telegraph.—press association. Auckland, April 16. Mr. John Milward, manager of the Pacific Cable Company, arrived by the Iris from Suva. He states that the result of the survey for the cable exittißion was most satisfactory. The bottom was excellent, and the route would be good in every way. The stretches being duplicated, were Sydney to Southport (near Brisbane), 500 miles; Suva to Auckland direct, 1200 miles. The cost of the work on both cables would be £300,000, and both should be laid by August 14 next, possiblv earlier.
Explaining why the longer duplication was in abeyance, Mr. Milward said that experiments were being caraid out with a new design of submarine cable known as the continuous-load cable, the practical result of which, if successful, would be that the cable would carry eight times as much work as at present.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 179, 17 April 1923, Page 7
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