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New Zealand Tablet, 7 September 1911, Page 1739

Some time ago the Pacific Cable Board had decided to lay down a new cable between New Zealand and Australia. The scheme was prevented for the time being owing to disagreement in regard to the proportion of cost to be borne by the British Government, which had informed him * that the question would be reconsidered before long, said Sir Joseph Ward at the annual social of the Wellington letter-carriers on Saturday night. He hoped that there would be a second cable laid from New Zealand to Sydney. Doubtless Bay would be abandoned, and the present cable would be brought over from the coast and carried through pipes to the Auckland Telegraph Office, resulting in the despatch of messages from Auckland to Sydney as readily as from Auckland to the Bluff. A similar arrangement would be made on the other side. Instead of the cable ending at La Perouse, it would be carried through a pipe to Sydney,