DOUBLING OF PACIFIC CABLE
Mr. Milward, fhanager of the Pacific Cable Company, announces (says a Vancouver message) that a project is under consideration to duplicate the Vancouver to Norfolk Island cable. The cable cannot be completed until 1921. It will cost nearly £1,000,000
The Pacific- (“All-Red") cable, which was completed in October, 1902, was tho outcome of the desire for an allBritish t elegraphic route between Great Britain and the Dominions. The project was somewhat coldly looked upon at home until Mr. Joseph Chamberlain took the matter up as a part of Imperial policy. The distance from Vancouver to Norfolk Island, whence the cable proceeds to New Zealand and Australia, is 6,0(X) miles. There are two intermediate stations between Vancouver and Norfolk —namely, Fanning Island and Fiji. The cable between Vancouver and Fanning is tho longest hitherto laid in one piece.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 179, 14 July 1920, Page 7
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