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CENTRED AT AUCKLAND. WELLINGTON LOSES LINE. (By Ttleyraph—Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 15. With the object of. effecting economies in the cable services, preparations are being made to close tbe Wellington Office of the Pacific Cable Board, which is associated with the Imperial and International Communications Limited. The Wellington-Syd-ney cable is to lie operated from Auckland, instead of from Wellington, and to give effect to this policy, the New Zealand end of tbe cable is to be removed from Wellington to Auckland.. The transfer of the shore end of the cable from Wellington to Auckland represents a work of considerable magnitude. -The intention is to bring it into Uuriwai Beach at approximately the point where the Pacific Cable Board at present receives its Aus-tralian-Auekland cable. The work will be carried out by the cable steamer “Recorder,” formerly the “Iris,” which is now at Auckland preparing for sea.
The initial preparations include the removal of her spare cables to the shore, leaving her tanks free to receive the cable, which will have to be taken up from the ocean prior to re-laying.
It is expected the Recorder will sail about the middle of next week for Wellington. Her first task will be to take up a considerable portion of the existing cable formerly operated by the Eastern Extension Company. After disconnecting the Wellington end, the cable will be lifted from the bed of the ocean for several hundred miles out to sea, and wil be stowed temporarily in the' cable tanks on the steamer. When sufficiently distant from the land, the steamer will alter her course to a northerly direction, paying out cable as she proceeds, until the Coast of Muriwa.i is reached. There the end of the cable will be taken on shore and a new land line will connect the cable with the Pacific Cable Board’s offices in the chief Post Office. When the work is completed, the Board will operate four cables from its Auckland office, namely, two submarines to Australia, the Suva cable and the line to Norfolk Island. „
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1932, Page 6
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