POVERTY BAY TELEGRAPH LINE.
We take the following from the last report of the Commissioner of Telegraphs : POVERTY BAY iIXE. This line will, for the first five miles out of Napier, be ran on the poles carrying the wires to Auckland, and will leave that lino at Petane. From Petane, it will follow the track to Wairoa. Thence to Poverty Bay, it will be taken along the beach line to Mahia, but fur enough inland to prevent the wire being affected by salt. From the Mahia, the wire will be carried along the sandh 'ls for about four miles ; then through fourteen miles of rough bush ; and subsequently over about 23 miles of comparatively love; ground to its_ termination at Gisborne. Contracts for the erection of offices at Wairoa and Gisborne have been let, and the cutting and delivery of the poles is being proceeded with as rapidly as possible. More than half the poles for the distance between Napier and Wairoa are now at Napier or Wairoa, and the remainder for that section of the line will be ready for ship nt about the beginning of August. The estimated length of the lino is 110 miles.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 107, 10 September 1873, Page 3
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197POVERTY BAY TELEGRAPH LINE. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 107, 10 September 1873, Page 3
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