CABLE DUPLICATION

Evening Star, Issue 18272, 11 May 1923, Page 6

CABLE DUPLICATION

DELAY EXPLAINED.

TESTING AN INVENTION,

IMPORTANT RESULTS' OBTAINED,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association,

SYDNEY, May 10.

Mr J. A. Milward (manager in Australia of the Pacific Cable Hoard) says that tho duplication of the cable from Canada to Fiji is held up pending tho tests of a now cable which is calculated considerably to increase tho speed of transmission, and to bring about_ a reduction in rates. The new cable is expected to increase tho present carrying capacity at least eight times. The tests had proved successful, and all cablo companies recognised that the new type of cable would bring about a revolution in cablo telegraphy. Mr Milward added that, while ho admitted that wireless would play an important part in connection with strategic purposes, it was not feared commercially in tho near future. In any case, if commercial wireless were developed, tho cablo concerns hoped by an ultimate reduction in rates successfully to compote against it. The steamer Stephen is shortly to arrive from Imndon. She has on board two now cables for the Pacific Cablo Company. One is for the SouthportS'yducy line, and the other for tho Suva-Auckland section. As tho routes have already been surveyed, tho work of laying tho cables will he started shortly after the vessel’s arrival.