REPAIRS TO CABLES
I WORK FOR THE RECORDER
(By Telef^aph-PresM Association,) • AUCKLAND, November 29. Owing to the reported wreck of; the cable steamcr'Cable at Cape St. James, 1 near Saigon, Cochin^China, last month, • it is .believed that the cable steamer ; Recorder, which for many years has been stationed at Auckland, will be called upon to carry out any. necewary repairs in the northern area until the lost vessel is replaced. Although no official information has ' been received, it is understood" the Gable, which was stationed at Singa- ■ pore, went ashore at Cape St. James, '■ where there is a cable station, and i became a total loss. The crew was landed in safety. " -i . . The Recorder is at present atIMe^ bourne, where she1 is transferring to - the cable steamer ' Faraday . eighty - mites of cable which she took on board , at Suva in July after repairing a fault in the Pacific cable near Norfolk Is- ' iand. The Faraday is to lay a telei phone cable across Bass Strait 'from ; Melbourne to Tasmania. - '
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 15
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170REPAIRS TO CABLES Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 15
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