INTER-ISLAND TELEPHONE
BROKEN CABLE REPAIRED [by telegraph—own correspondent] WELLINGTON, Thursday The telephone cable across Ccok :Straitj which had to be lifted this week owing to the development of a fault, has been restored tq. full working condition. A section of the heavily armoured shore end off Lryall Bay, about 600 yds. in length, was cut out and replaced with new -cable. The handling of a cable which weighs 11 tons to the mile and raising it from a depth of 60ft. was a creditable feat to be acconipliished with the extemporised lifting gear carried on the Defence steamer Jamie Seddon, but the operation was safely carried out. Twenty hours' continuous work by the cable crew, ending at 1 o'clock this morning, resulted in clear speech of full volume being again possible over the four channels which this cable provides between tha North and South Islands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22059, 15 March 1935, Page 8
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