TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 253, 13 July 1918, Page 7

TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION

IMPROVEMENT EFFECTED.' The Telegraph Department advised yesterday: "Two East Coast and two West Coast wires lire available, to Ghristchurch to-day. The ■ East Coast :wires uro subject' to frsquont intwruplioiw at present. Delay to' traffic will lie heavy." , . Owing to tho uncertainty, of the' East .Coast (Kaikpura-Culverden , line), the local Telegraph ;Offico has had to «m'.tinue to send : bundles of • telo','i-.>mß. to Christchurch by steamtr 'i-aeh evening, during the prese.'it .week,-b;it the Jiumber bo sent has not been as great ae was the , case, last -.week; Still the average number hasvJwen ,'.vell..ovar 1000 each way: "Whilst I he-sending of such messages by boat gives- tho ope-.'.itors some relief, a strain is being put upon the ■etaff, both here and inChristehurch, to put through the large number xi' wires for forward offices. ■ In the case of telegrams for persons resident in. either of the two' cities, the work consists of distributing them as letters by. telegraph messengers'-with as little, delay as possible; Eight through tho last, trying fortnight, both tho operating and the dispatch staffs havo met the emergency ili the very best spirit, and dono really good work. Yesterday's weather in tVelliiijton-was as •'perfect" as one could wish. A warm Bim shone from a cloudle-s sky .throughout the day. and there .vas ';ot wind enough" to straighten cut. the (lags that wero being flown at some points .in honour of France's national fete day or the . street appeal attaching thereto. If such conditions as prevailed hero yesterday extend to tho South lela'.id completo ■restoration'of all,lines should not taks. vory long. It : ,s feared, 'wwerar, that the fine weather is local, i'or on Thursday afternoon and throughout the night n fierce gale raged at Capo I'alliser, only 35 milea away. ' Such was tho velocity of tho'gale (hero that tho lighlliouseIceeper could onlycovjr the distance between his'residence and tho lighthouse on hia.hands and knees.