HIGH TIDES
TELEPHONES SUFFER
Thursday's abnormally high tide, besides flooding basements in low-lying portions of the city, interfered to some extent with telephone services. About sixty subscribers in Victoria Street, all business houses, were cut off through water finding its way to the underground cable, and although some of the lines have been reconnected complete restoration will be a fairly slow process, as the cable is set in concrete.
All the telephones affected were not cut off simultaneously, but were affected at different times yesterday as the water penetrated the cable. As far as can be ascertained Victoria Street was the only; area affected.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1938, Page 11
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104HIGH TIDES Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1938, Page 11
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