WIRES TO ’QUAKE AREAS
LINES BETWEEN LYELL AND MURCHISON TELEPHONES AND TELEGRAPHS Press Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The telephone and Morse telegraph services have now been restored between Murchison and Lyell, thus completing the alternative West Coast route through the Upper Buller Gorge, recently severed by the earthquake. When this route was demolished an emergency wireless service was made available at Westport and Greymouth whereby, in the event of an interruption to the Arthur’s Pass route, communication by radio would immediately be effected with the Wellington and Awarua wireless stations.
The telephone facilities now available between Murchison and Lyell ! will be of special value in connection | with communications from West Coast | stations to Murchison and Nelson and 'their surrounding districts. 1
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 760, 5 September 1929, Page 6
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120WIRES TO ’QUAKE AREAS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 760, 5 September 1929, Page 6
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