OPENING OF NEW CABLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 191, 2 January 1913, Page 6

OPENING OF NEW CABLE.

BETWEEN 1 AUSTR.UJA AND MEW ZEALAND. By Telegraph —Press Association. Chirstchureh, List Night. On the last (lay of the old year the j new cable between Auckland and Syd- I neV was opened. The station at Doubt- | less Bay has been abandoned, as the j cable runs direct into the Auckland post office, where the company has spe- I cial offices. On Tuesday the Hon. R. Ilea ton Rhodes, Postmaster-General, was advised by the telegraph engineers in Auckland that the Pacific cable work was not going direct from that office ami that the company's staff would return from Doubtless Bay on New Year's Day. Everything, he said, was working -.atisfactorily under the tube system for re-laying traffic lines to the old offices. hi connection with the opening, the lion. \]r. Rhodes telegraphed to Mr. Mil ward, manager in the Pacific for the Pacific Cable Board at Auckland, as follows:—''Please- accept my congratulations on the successful opening of your new cable, which will still further draw the bonds of uniting the southern dominions of the empire and 'help to bring them into closer association on points of material interests." The reply received from Mr. Mil ward was as follows:—"Much gratified at receipt of your message, and pleased to be able to report that the new cables have done excellent work to-day. Am confident when the staff is familiar with the new conditions transit between Australia and New Zealand will be reduced to absolute minimum. Please accept my best thanks for your promise to be present at the luncheon in Auckland on January 14 to celebrate the occasion."