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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14392, 3 September 1917, Page 3

Many . people Avondered . what Sir Joseph Ward meant when !he said, in the House of Representatives, that the laying of the new. cable across 'Cook Strait had saved the country some £14,000. The save was effected through the generosity of the Eastern Extension Cable Com. pany, which, having laid down new shov,e ends out from Titahi Bay: to connectjsw^th. the cable to Sydney,, had the two Wakapuaka ends at their disposal. These were ,spliced together and laid down "between Wellington and Wakapuaka. which makes another^ : — the seventh— cable across Cook Strait. The work was done in 36 hours by the Cable Company's steamer, and as the cable and work attached' thereto would have cost £14,000 approximately, the company's gift to the Government has meant ibat save.