COOK STRAIT SURVEY
LAYING OF NEW CABLE INTER-ISLAND TELEPHONES [by telegraph—own correspondent] WELLINGTON, Monday A valuable addition to the knowledge of Cook Strait has been made through a series of over 200 soundings taken by H.M.S. Wakakura recently. The existence of several "deeps" had been proved by previous experience in cable laying, and the Post Office obtained the services of the Navy to make a very detailed examination of the area over which it is proposed to lay a modern coaxial cable now being manufactured in England. The new cable will be an important link between the North and South Islands. It will be capable of providing up to 24 channels of telephone communication simultaneously when worked to full capacity, thus providing ample scope to meet future ex pa on of telephone toll business across Cook Strait. A future task will bo to secure a " continuous profile of the bottom along the whole route by means of the echosounding apparatus which records depth as tho ship moves along. This will be done when a suitable vessol is available, and it is expected that all preparations for the new cable will be eomt plcted in good time before its arrival about next April.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22613, 29 December 1936, Page 8
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202COOK STRAIT SURVEY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22613, 29 December 1936, Page 8
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