PACIFIC CABLE
GOOD ROUTE SURVEYED. EXTENSIONS TO COST £300,000. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April IS. Mr John Milward, manager of ths Pacific Gable Company, arrived by the [ris from Suvai. He states the result of tho survey_ for the cable extension was most satisfactory. The bottom was excellent, and the route would be good in every way. The stretches being duplicated were Sydney to South- , port (near Brisbane), 600 miles; Suva to,Auckland direct, 1200 miles. Tlie boot of the work on both cables will be £3OO/100, and both should be laid by August 14th next, possibly earlier. Explaining why the longer duplication was in abeyance, Mr Milward said experiments were being carried out with a new design of eubmarine cable known as the continuous-load cable, the practical result of which, if successful, would be that the-cable would carry eight times as much work as all present. I
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11496, 17 April 1923, Page 4
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147PACIFIC CABLE New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11496, 17 April 1923, Page 4
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