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INTER-ISLAND TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION.

LAYING CABLE TO-DAY.

Blenheim, March 20,

A little coterie of officials of the Post and Telegraph Department and the Marine Department have been in Marlborough during the last few days completing arrangements for the laying of the new cable between Lyall Bay, Wellington, and Blind River in Marlborough, which is to provide the inter-island telephonio communication at all hours of the day and night in place of the present very restricted service in the “dead” hours of the night. Thus, when the cable is installed and the necessary shore stations erected it will be a matter of course for business men in Christchurch, Dunedin, and any other large centre in the South Island to ring up Wellington, Palmerston, Auckland or any large centre in the North Island. These arrangements will not be complete for at least threee or four months, but people in Blenheim and Nelson will be able to speak with those in Wellington at any hour of the day within the next fortnight or so, and the system will be gradually extended until the whole of New Zealand is linked up by telephone. If weather conditions are favourable the Tutanekai will steam into the vicinity of Blind River on Tuesday and tiie shore end of the cable will be landed and a section paid out from the shore. Its end will be buoyed and the Tutanekai will then proceed to Lyall Bay, where she will land the North Island shore end and return to Blind River paying out the cable behind her. At Blind River the cable will be joined up with the shore end, which will be located by means of the buoy, after that a temporary land line will be connected with the cable and Blenheim and Nelson will at once have the privilege of telephonic communication with Wellington, while the installation is being completed for the whole of New Zealand.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3014, 23 March 1926, Page 3

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INTER-ISLAND TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3014, 23 March 1926, Page 3

INTER-ISLAND TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3014, 23 March 1926, Page 3

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