SOUTH ISLAND WIRES.
ALTERNATIVE ROUTE TO BE SOUGHT. The Teceat gale was responsible for t number of breaks in the telegraph lin« down the East Coast of the South Island The linos are being repaired as quick!} as possible, and it is expected that the work will bo completed to-morrow The Hon. R. H. Rhodes (PostmasterGeneral) has instructed an officer cf hi; Department to go over the route of thi South Island East Coast lines with t view to selecting alternative routes, when the wires are now most exposed. Th( late gaJe, however, is looked upon as ex coptional—it is said to be the worst thoi has been'experienced in Now. Zealand foi forty years—aud officers of the. Post anc lelegraph Department state that no lino however situated, would be absoluteli tree from danger in such a gale.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1505, 30 July 1912, Page 4
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137SOUTH ISLAND WIRES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1505, 30 July 1912, Page 4
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