PACIFIC CABLES
ENGINEER'S RETURN SUPREMACY OVER WIRELESS The view that cable services still held supremacy for full business communication to all parts of the world, and that they would have nothing to fear from the development of radio, was expressed by Mr. J. M. Gamble, who returned to Auckland yesterday by the Maetsuycker on leave of absence for six months. Mr. Gamble was formerly the chief cable engineer on the Pacific Cable and Wireless Company's steamer .Recorder, which he left recently at Singapore.
"Cablo services<are definitely not on the decline," said Mr, Gamble. "In their own particular field they are ■supremo in carrying telegraphic traffic between the natiqns. JLadio has a definite application for short point to point work, where there is no full-time cable service, but over long distances the cable is the more reliable and satisfactory system. In recent times there seems to have been some tendency for radio, except in the case of ships, to be given over entirely to broadcasting."
Mr. Gamble, who has been absent from Auckland for six months, was accompanied by Mrs. Gamble. He expects to receive another appointment in the company, probably in Auckland, at the expiration of his term of furlough.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23142, 14 September 1938, Page 19
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