BREAK OF ATLANTIC CABLE
ARDUOUS REPAIR WORK. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. Sept. 8. The whips engaged in the arduons task of repairing the trans-Atlantic cable damaged bv the earthquake und llie. sea. last November have completed their work. They found that volcanic action had in large areas changed the < onsistenev oi the sea bott m t i or three miles from slime to solid rode Much of the cable had been buried but I.lft mites of it. was recovered and reconDnrhig the rdiaying the cable was shortened by 200 miles to avoid the depth of the Gulf Stream qh ° * had to scour the sea. over a huge n,iea to orapple with the cable three miles below” and during this the rigging and jjflachinerv were sometimes complet . iVypred with ice.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 September 1930, Page 5
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