LANDING A CABLE.
AEROPLANE USED. AUCKLAND, April 20. After several unsuccessful attempts the end of the trans-Tasman cable from the caTße steamer Recorder was brought ashore at Muriwai Beach today. An aeroplane again visited the Beach to take out a line to a launch waiting outside the breakers. _ However it was not until the third attempt that this was accomplished, as when the line broke it fell short of the waiting launch. As a team of eight horses, together with a tractor, failed to move tire cable yesterday, a log-hauler was obtained from Mr Bowling of Helensvillej and with this the cable was brought ashore to-day and hauled up to the cable-house, about a quarter of a mile up the beach. The work was not completed until about seven o’clock this evening. The launch was lying about a mi e out from the shore, and as the cable weighs from 35 to 40 tons a mile, the difficulty of hauling it through the surf can he understood.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 121, 22 April 1932, Page 7
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