CABLE TO WAIHEKE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 518, 22 November 1928, Page 12

CABLE TO WAIHEKE

BETTER COMMUNICATION SECOND LINE NOW LAID Yesterday a new subm,_i„. cable was laid between WaiuHr* Island and Maraetai. on the main! This will increase telephone com munication between Auckland and th" island. The new service is expected to be ready for use in a week’s timt W’aiheke Island is now connected with Auckland by two teleohones 7/ entering the island at the north'2l? and the other at the south An ’ crease in visitors to the island h!' ““tssarv* 5 increaßed communication The submarine cable which was yesterday by officers of the TeWr£s Department is four miles lone .5 weighs 30 tons. Perfect weather' ditions and a slack tide enabled m l’_> men employed to lav the ,h„i cable in two hours. Had' the weath been rough, it might have delar.s them for days. “flayed The old scow Era, now transformed into a punt, was used. Two motor launches, the Jumbo and .he loooi' towed the punt slowly across th!' water as the men fed out the cal"! over blocks at the stern. From Maraetai the cable is eon nected with land lines to Auckland ,!.' Howick. These have been in Position for some weeks, waiting for the caha to be laid. Finishing work at ehh£ end of the cable has to be completed before the new line can come ii. operation. 1,10