ON OCEAN’S BED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 4

ON OCEAN’S BED

“ROMANCE OF THE CABLE” INTERESTING FILM (Sun Special.) LONDON. July 10. Life on a cable ship may not be always joyous, but that it is fascinating is proved by a film, called “The Romance of the Submarine Cable,” which | was screened in the ballroom of the | Savoy Hotel after the Eastern Tele- - graph Company’s lunch to London and Dominion pressmen. I The film, which is one of a series enI titled, 4 ‘Highways of Empire,” illusitrates the ingenious machinery used in 'the manufacture of the modern cable, I in which layer after layer of gutta peridia, wire, pitch and jute is wound on .the vital core of twisted copper wire—/including one layer designed to circumvent the destructive boring submarine linsect, “teredo,” which, with the trawler, i<s among the cable’s greatest 'enc- | mips. I The laying of a cable, and the raising of it by means of grapnels to rejpair a breakage, are shown in a most i interesting way, as well as the wonderIful handling organisation of the head , office. Mr J. C. Denison-Pender (managing director of the Eastern Telegraph Co.), presided at the lunch. The film is likely to be shown shortly in Australia.