LINKING THE ISLANDS.
LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE, ■ : .• .* ; ,■ •..-■■: ■(■ •' \ . ' i A CABLE-TO- BE LAID. ,■? ' .v'' : ;:J'' : ''''''/:'r:l:= ••■■•'''-' : ?-,V;'-' l'.^*- \ SCHEME TO COST C ABOUT ,£IOO,OOO. ! r it UTOKEAPH.— TBXSa ASSOCIATION.] '! ' ; 1 DUNEDIN, Friday. The engineer-in-chief to the Telegraph Department, Mr. E. A. Shrimpton, leaves for London shortly, and part of his business will ■; bo to! make final arrangements for the purchase of a submarine cable and apparatus to connect „the North and South Island* by telephone.. It will thus be possible for l South Island centres to communicate with. Wellington or Auckland by telephone, or vice versa. ' ~, ' •/ >•. • Mr. Shrimptoa explains that this work ■will be a large'and costly one. The cable will weigh r some fifteen tons per nautical mile, and -the cost will not be less than £1000 per mile. As the distance i* about sixty miles, the total capital cost, ineluding the apparatus ,and the cost of la?ing the cable, will easily absorb the best part of £100,006.'.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17471, 15 May 1920, Page 6
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