IMPROVING PACIFIC CABLE SERVICE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3492, 30 October 1926, Page 8

IMPROVING PACIFIC CABLE SERVICE

Commencement Made With Paying-Oat START MADE FROM BOTH ENDS I Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Last Night. The secretary of the General Post Office has been advised that another step towards the completion of the duplication of the Pacific cable between New Zealand and Canada, was made yesterday, when the cable steamer “Dominia” landed the shore end of the Northern section of the cable at Baiutield, which is the Vancouver Island terminus. The ship then commenced paying out cable towards Fanning Island, which is 3458 miles distant This is the longest span of cable in the world.

The southern section of the cable: x.e.. Fanning Island to Suva (Fiji,) is to be laid by the cable steamer “Faraday.” The latter vessel left the Thames on the same day as the “Dominia," and was at Honolulu last week-end replenishing her oil supplies. The “Faraday” left Honolulu on Monday for Fanning Island, where she will land the, shore end of the Fanning Island-Suva section of the cable early next month, and will then proceed with laying to Suva. The duplication should be completed about the middle of November. It will be recollected that the southern section of the cable; i.e., Suva to Auckland, was duplicated in 1923.