PACIFIC CABLE
SURVEY SATISFACTORY.
(2? TBLEGSAH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
Mr. John Milward, manager of the Pacific Cable Company, arrived by the Iris from Suva. He states the result of the survey for the cable extension 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 milea; Suva to Auckland direct, 1200 miles. The cost of the work on both cables will be £300,000...and both should be laid by 14th Augußt next, possiWy earlier. Explaining why the longer duplication was ill abeyance, Mr. Milward said experiments were being carried 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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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 90, 16 April 1923, Page 8
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142PACIFIC CABLE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 90, 16 April 1923, Page 8
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