CABLE SERVICE.
REASON FOR PRESENT DELAY. | Auckland, April 1. Delays in the cable service are the ground of much complaint on the part of commercial houses in Auckland. Explaining the delays' to-day, the superintendent of the Auckland office of the Pacific Cable Board said the whole of the Eastern Cable Company's service lines were interrupted at a spot believed to be near England, and the result was that the whole of the Government and full rate traffic from Australia and New Zealand to Canada, the United States, and Europe was thrown on the Pacific Cable Board's single line. There were eight full days' delay on the outward traffic from Canada, and the delay was increasing, with no relief in sight. There wi\s delay on the outward traffic from New Zealand of from two and a half to three days, and this could not be obviated at the present.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1919, Page 5
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148CABLE SERVICE. Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1919, Page 5
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