COOK STRAIT CABLES
THREE REPORTED BROKEN. NEW MACHINES COPE WITH WORK. A “Times” reporter was yesterday officially informed that -during the week-end, owing probably to high tides and heavy swells, three cables in Cook Strait were broken. The new machine-printing telegraphs recently installed were quite equal to tbs calls made upon them, and no delay in transmission has occurred. One of the broken cables had not shown a defect for fourteen years. Tjie cable-laying and repair ship is at present working off the coast of Queensland for tlie Pacific Cable Board, and the broken cables will receive attentiin directly she returns. Meanwhile communication with the South Island is going on uninterruptedly, thanks to the machine-printing telegraph.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11302, 30 August 1922, Page 5
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116COOK STRAIT CABLES New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11302, 30 August 1922, Page 5
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