CABLE REPAIRS
STEAMER’S FAST WORK PRECISION OF INSTRUMENTS (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. _ The Pacific Cable Board’s steamer Ins returned to Auckland yesterday aftei locating a break in the Sydney-Suya cable within a few hundred yards of the point estimated before the vessel lett her moorings at Devonport seven days previously. ... The remarkable precision in the lnstrumerits used in fault finding narrows tho dragging of the sea bottom down to a very small area, and on this occasion tho defective section was picked up about four miles from Norfolk Island at the first drag. 'Hie cable broke after a short length had been retrieved, and three other breaks occurred before the affected section was all in hand. The work was finished shortly after midnight on Monday, a three , miles length of new cable being introduced into tho line. The location of such defects is effected hv a delicate measuring of the resistance nf the conductor between two stations. In this case checks were made ‘between Norfolk Island and Suva. The difference in the electrical resistance at the two points provided the data from which the defective point was found.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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191CABLE REPAIRS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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