CABLE OPERATIONS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 170, 14 April 1932, Page 9

CABLE OPERATIONS

Recorder Will Leave To-day

WORK AT AUCKLAND

The cable steamer Recorder, formerly the Iris, which arrived at Wellington last Thursday after picking up part of the Wellington-Sydney No. 1 cable, which has been out of use for more than a year, is to leave here at six o’clock this morning for Auckland. She will pay out about 20 miles of thick shore-end cable from Muriwai, lite Auckland terminal, and will then sound over the route of the No. 2 WellingtonSydney cable, the one at present, being operated, to a point about 800 miles from Wellington. A cut will then be made in the cable, which will cut Wellington off from direct cable communication overseas. The cable will be buoyed at the cut. and the Recorder will steam toward Wellington, taking in such portions of the No. 2 cable as will be useful Tlie vessel will then return to the cut previously made in rhe cable, will join it up, and commence paying out the cable toward Muriwai, until she reaches the buoyed end of the cable previously laid from tliat terminal. and will join up the two ends, tints transferring the cable, which will at. its New Zealand end be composed of portions of the No. .1 and No. 2 Wellington cables, to Auckland.