TWO NEW CABLES.
TO BE LAID IN PACIFIC. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 10, 10.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 10. The steamer Stephen is due to arrive aoo-n from London with material for two new' cables for the Pacific Cable Board. One is for the South po^t-Sydney line, and the other for the Suva-Auckland section. As the routes are already surveyed, the work of laying cables will be started soon after the vessels arrive.
CHEAPER RATES LIKELY.
SYDNEY, May 10. Mr Mil ward, manager of the Pacific Cable, says that the duplication of the cable from Canada to Fiji is held up ponding teats of a new cable which is calculated to considerably increase the speed of transmission of messages, and bring about a reduction in rates. If the tests are successful all cable companies recognised that it would bring about a revolution in cable telegraphy. Mr Milward added that whilst he admitted that wireless would play au important part in connection with strategic purposes, it was not feared commercially in the near future. In any case, if commercial wireless developed. the cable concerns hoped, by an ultimate reduction in rate*, to successfully compete against it.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17037, 10 May 1923, Page 9
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