FANNING ISLAND STAFF SAFE.
(Received September 24, 10.45 a.m.) • SYDNEY, Sept. 24. ' The Pacific Cable Board reports that the Fanning Island staff is safe. AUCKLAND, this day. Mr Milward, the manager of tho Pacific Cable Board, confirms the report that the Fanning Island staff is safe, but. regretted he was unable to reveal further details of the news which had come through from tho station, owing to Government restrictions. There is reason for believing that the station has not been totally destroyed. , It is reported that although some damage has been done, the builcfings on the island are more or less intact, while the fact that the staff is still on the island suggests that an effort will be made to repair iho damage as quickly as possible.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13494, 24 September 1914, Page 8
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128FANNING ISLAND STAFF SAFE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13494, 24 September 1914, Page 8
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