FANNING ISLAND.
RISK OF ISOLATION. WIRELESS WANTED. Cablegrams received in Sydney announced that owing to the great upheaval in the bed of the Pacific a break had occurred in the United States-Guam cable. Mr Frank Coffee pointed out that this fac*- was a further proof of the folly o£ the action of the Imperial Government, or whatever other authority was responsible, in ordering the wireless station on Fanning Island to be dismantled. Fanning Island, hie said, was just as likely to be affected by earthquakes or similar disturbances as Guam, and if the Fanning Island cable broke it would mean that the island would be isolated, probably for a considerable periodThe wireless station on Fanning' ! Island, too, might have been the means of.obtaining help for distressed vesstels in the Pacific, which couldget into communication with it, when they could not communicate with stations at longer distances, and it would have been thought that this alonewould have justified the expense oLiiga retaining the station. '
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4531, 23 February 1923, Page 2
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163FANNING ISLAND. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4531, 23 February 1923, Page 2
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