COOK STRAIT CABLE
WELLINGTON END LAID
INTERISLAND COMMUNICATIONS (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 29. Lyall Bay to-day was the scene of cable-laying operation* when the Wellington end of the new cable across Cook Strait was laid by the motor ship Hokitika. The Hokitika is laying about two miles and a-half of cable from Lyall Bay, and the other ena is to be attached to a buoy which will later be picked up by the cable ship Recorder, which will lay the remaining sections across the strait.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23204, 31 May 1937, Page 10
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87COOK STRAIT CABLE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23204, 31 May 1937, Page 10
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