IMPROVING THE CABLE CONNECTION BETWEEN AUCKLAND AND SYDNEY: LAYING THE OVERLAND CABLE FROM MURIWAI TO RIVERHEAD, AUCKLAND. The Pacific Cable Board is engaged in the laying of a cable which will give direct communication between the Central Post .Oflices of Sydney and Auckland. At the present moment messages have to pass through ,3? When the new line is completed communication between the two oflices will be absolutely unbroken. The new cable will come ashore at Mmiwai. on the west coast. It will then be earned overland to Harkm s f V"h ° ® bo carried down the Waitemata Harbour to Ponsonbv. Final communication with the Auckland Post OUico will be made by means of an overland duet. Hie first overland section (Muiiwai to Lncihead) i. no {, • 1 Sl the commencement of Ik. work at Muriwai hist week. 1. Paying cut , length of cable. 2. Laying the cable in the trench. 3. Officers in charge of the option,-Messrs. W. Forrest ,-««.« luchter (engmec^ CT™fd oa (representative of the Pacific Cable Board). 4. Testing the cable. 5. Examining the Muriwai Creek for snags at the point where the cable crosses. 6. A drum containing a length of cable, wu00 2., t . . the operations.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 5 (Supplement)

IMPROVING THE CABLE CONNECTION BETWEEN AUCKLAND AND SYDNEY: LAYING THE OVERLAND CABLE FROM MURIWAI TO RIVERHEAD, AUCKLAND. The Pacific Cable Board i s engaged in the laying of a cable which will give direct communication between the Central Post .Oflices of Sydney and Auckland. At the present moment messages have to pass through ,3? When the new line is completed communication between the two oflices will be absolutely unbroken. The new cable will come ashore at Mmiwai. on the west coast. It will then be earned overland to Harkm s f V " h ° ® bo carried down the Waitemata Harbour to Ponsonbv. Final communication with the Auckland Post OUico will be made by means of an overland duet. Hie first overland section (Muiiwai to Lncihead) i. no {, • 1 S l the commencement of Ik. work at Muriwai hist week. 1. Paying cut , length of cable. 2. Laying the cable in the trench. 3. Officers in charge of the option, -Messrs. W. Forrest ,-««.« luchter (engmec^ CT ™fd oa (representative of the Pacific Cable Board). 4. Testing the cable. 5. Examining the Muriwai Creek for snags at the point where the cable crosses. 6. A drum containing a length of cable, wu 00 2., t . . the operations.