Nothing1 Permanent Nowadays.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 December 1912, Page 3

Nothing1 Permanent Nowadays.

Says the Sydney' "Bulletin"—On the same day that the cable steamer Silverton was to begin laying the new 1200-mile Sydney-Auckland cable, which landed at Muriwai a few weeks ago, news came by anothei deep-sea feeder cf newspapers that a San Francisco wireless station, on a recent clear night, had overheard the flying gossip oi steamers m th» North Atlantic. 8000 miles away. Last week Eeutor's received first news ot the capitulation of Naziin Pasha, com-mander^iu-chief of the main Turkish army, by the system that cannot be cut even by an aeroplanist. The cable—especially the short length cable—begins to-look a rather faned investment in the light of theee achievements. The air is full of shooting dictionary those days, and the addition of another screw or something equally unimportant may so cheapen the wirele?s system that, nil deopsea cables and land lines will look tike laborious commercial jokes. And when that happens, some more of the " permanent and reproductive assets " that have been provided with : borrowed money will be due for scrapping. It looks as though there isn't any such thing as a permanent, work nowadays; wherefore no honest people will cany out any engineering work with a loan which hasn't got a solid sinking fund attached to it for the repayment of the debt.