NEW SUBMARINE CABLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147687, 5 September 1911, Page 7

NEW SUBMARINE CABLE.

AUCKLAND TO SYDNEY.

QUICKER MESSAGES.

LINE .READY IN SIX MONTHS.

[by telegraph.— special

Wellington, Thursday. As soon as the undertaking is sanctioned by the British Treasury, a new submarine cable will be laid across the Tasman Sea, giving, with f.he aid of two short overland lengths, direct communication between Auckland and Sydney. The station at Doubtless Bt,y will be abandoned, and the cable operators will be removed to the telegraph office in Auckland, and by a similar arrangement the staff at. Soutbport will be transferred to quarters in Sydney. The New Zealand end of the cable will probably be landed at Onehunga, and continued in an insulated conduit into the" City. By the present arrangement cablegrams handed in at the telegraph stations in the Dominion, with instructions " via Pacific," are transmitted to Doubtless Bay over the territorial lines, cabled to Norfolk Island, and retransmitted to Southport, and from that station distributed by the terrestrial telegraph. The new cable proposed by the Pacific Cable Board will give a more expeditious service, by which transmission of a cablegram from Auckland to Sydney will take approximately the same time as the telegraphing of a message overland from Auckland to the Bluff. "

The new system will be in operation probably within six months.