TELEPHONE SERVICE.
INTER-ISLAND "CONNECTION. CABLE BEING MANUFACTURED. [BY telegraph.—own correspondent.] WELLINGTON. Friday. The special cable which it is intended to lay down to enable better means of telephonic communication to be carried on across Cook Strait is now in process of manufacture in England. The cable ■'•;-■' will be brought out to the Dominion in a special tank, but it will probably bo about six months before it is laid. '. When .• the cable is in use it will be possible to carry on ordinary telephonic communication from one end of Nov.- Zealand to r the other at any time of the day •• or • night. (l . At the present time the chief 'telegraph engineer, Mr. E. A. Shrimpton, is super- '•-. intending the laying of a new telephone l cable between Stewart. Island and' Bluff. it"**' ■""
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18885, 6 December 1924, Page 10
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133TELEPHONE SERVICE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18885, 6 December 1924, Page 10
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