REPAIRS COMPLETED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 216, 9 June 1936, Page 10

REPAIRS COMPLETED

Cook Strait Cables Having completed her cable-laying operations in Cook Strait, the Recorder returned to Wellington yesterday morning and berthed at the Pipitea Wharf to land some miles of old cable which she has picked up and replaced by new. While she has been working in Cook Strait the Recorder has laid about 9 miles of cable into the Oterangi-White’s Bay cable and about 20 miles into the Lyall Bay-White’s Bay one. The Lyall Bay cable is an old single-core cable which has given good service for 30 yi ars. In addition to the work done by the Recorder, the scow Kohi and tlie Janie Seddon laid three miles of “shore end” cable at White’s Bay and a further three miles at Lyall Bay. The Recorder will leave Wellington this morning for Auckland, where she will take in fresh cable and supplies, and will proceed to Norfolk Island to iepair a fault in the cable between there and Suva. She may then make a third attempt to repair the No. 2 Tasman cable, which conies ashore at Muriwai Beach. Auckland, or will proceed to Singapore direct after coaling at Sydney or Newcastle.