TELEPHONE CABLE.
ENGLAND TO BELGIUM.
DUPLICATION • ORDERED.
(Received October It. 5.35 p.m.) British "Wireless. RUGBY. Oct. 10. Following upon the rapid increase in telephone calls between Britain and the Continent the firm of Siemens Brothers, of Woolwich, has received an important contract. This is to make and lay a new cable between England and Belgium. The estimated cost considerably exceeds £IOO,OOO. The cable, which is to be more than 75 miles long, will be a duplicate of the land and submarine line laid on the same route in 1926. The work will be begun almost at once.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 11
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97TELEPHONE CABLE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 11
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