PACIFIC CABLE.
PROPOSED DUPLICATION
lPcr Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, this day. Mr. John Milward, manager of the Pacific Cable Company, arrived by tho Iris from Suva. He states the result of Hie 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 1 were Sydney to Southport, near Brisbane, 500 miles; Suva- to Auckland, direct, 1200 miles. The cost of the work on both cables was £!3CO,OCO, and the cables should be laid by August. 14 next, possibly earlier. Explaining why a longer duplication was in abeyance, Mr. Milward said th.it ■experiments were being carried oat with a new design of submarine cable, known the continuous load cable, the practical result of which, if successful, would be that the cable would carry eight times as much work as at present.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16102, 16 April 1923, Page 6
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