PACIFIC CABLES.
DUPLICATION PLANS. A CONTRACT PLACED. CARRYING CAPACITY INCREASED. (Reuter.) LONDON, April 30. The Pacific Cable Board has notified that the contract for the duplication of the Vancouver-Fanning IslandFijl cable has been placed with the Telegraph Construction Company (Siemens). The cable will embody a new invention which will give it an unprecedented traffic-carrying capacity. The contractors are building a special cable ship to carry a record weight. The work will be completed by August, 1926. The laying of a second cable from Vancouver to Fiji will complete the duplication of the cable from Canada to Australia and New Zealand, as the section south of Fiji was doubled in 1923.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16485, 2 May 1925, Page 5
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