FASTER CABLING.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1927, Page 1

FASTER CABLING.

E LI IS r 1N A TING 11 TO 1A N ELE-\ I EN T. AUCKLAND, January 24. The latest developments in cable telegraphy foreshadow the rapid approach of the day when the tapping of a key in Auckland will produce automatically and almost simultaneously the corresponding signal in London. The installation of automatically operated relaying apparatus in all cable stations and at the connecting points with the land lines will he the means of thus quickly passing on tho cable messages, and it . will eliminate the human element, which must now he taken into consideration when messages have to he relayed. At the present time, cablegrams from Auckland for Britain by the Pacific Cable Board’s cables are relayed by tlic Board’s operators at Suva, and by

automatic apparatus at Fanning Island, on to Bamfield, British Columbia, whence they travel on land lines to Halifax. Several automatic relays are required to pass the messages over the Canadian land lines, and a further manual relay is necessary at Halifax, the messages then being passed through automatic relays to the Post Office in London. The next stage in the elimination of the manual relays will be the assembling at Suva of apparatus that will

make possible the automatic relaying Further possibilities of the near future are the extension of the automatic* operation to includo Canadian land lines, thus introducing direct transmission between Australia and Xew Zealand and Montreal. The automatic apparatus installed at Fanning Island is the latest of its type and embodies all the good qualities of the regenerator system, plus other improvements which were developed last year.