COOK STRAIT CABLES
FORTHCOMING REPAIRS. The Imperial Communication Company’s cable ship, “Recorder,” formerr ly the “Iris,” will arrive in Wellington early next week to commence cable repair on two of the telegraphic cables crossing Cook Strait. The first to receive attention is the No. 5 cable running from Lyall Bay, Wellington, to White’s Bay, near Blenheim. This single-core cable, used for telegraph communication, has given good service for thirty years, and this is only the second occasion on which it has required attention. One break is three, miles from the Lyall Bay end, and another twelve miles further out. The “Recorder” will afterwards repair the No. 1 telegraph cable running from Otorangi Bay to White’s Bay. Although the actual fault is only three miles out, it will be necessary to replace twelve miles of the cable, because so much has been deeply buried in the detritus carried down by the Wairau River.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 May 1936, Page 3
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