CABLE RESTORED.
COOK STRAIT SERVICE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 14. The special telephone cable across Cook Strait, which had to be lifted this week owing to the development of a fault, has been restored to full working condition. A section about 600 yards long of the heavily-armoured shore end off Lyall Bay was cut out and replaced with new cable. The handling of a cable which weighs eleven tons to the mile, raising it from a depth of 60 feet, was a creditable feat to be accomplished with tho extemporised lifting gear carried on the defence steamer Janie Scddon, but the operation was safely carried out. Twenty hours’ continuous work by the cable crew, ending at 1 o’clock this morning, resulted in clear speech of full volume being again possible over the foiTr channels which this cable provides between the North and South Islands.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 91, 15 March 1935, Page 2
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145CABLE RESTORED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 91, 15 March 1935, Page 2
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